Recent content by baillirw

I'm a rookie trader, been active for a year now, mostly as a hobby. Sticking mostly to long term trend trading and such, but considering breaking into day trading. I've been reading about scalping. From what I've read, it works as follows; 1) Select a fairly liquid, inactive market 2) Enter a...

I've just started trading options (on paper) and one of the ideas that really caught my eye was the credit spread. However, I'm blown looking at the spreads on QQQQ & SPY options and I don't think I can make this work. So how do you guys play this trade or do you even use credit spreads at...

Can anyone direct me to a good, free canadian stock screener like the one on MSN Money (the U.S. site)? It would be a great help.

I've been doing a mix of swing trading and position trading for a couple of months now and have gotten pretty good at it. I've been following a pretty simple trend strategy which works well for me. Anyway my question is what do you guys prefer to trade. I've been working with stocks but I...

Lately, I have been paper trading using the 5-Day Keltner Channel with the RSI (3/14) day and have had some success over the last few weeks. basically, I look at stocks that have spiked above or below their extreme bands on the Keltner Channel and have held a 3-Day RSI above 95 for two or three...

I've been trading stocks for a few months now (mostly paper) and I'm starting to get enticed by FOREX. My question is how similar are these two systems? What I mean by this is can I use the same techniques on FOREX as I use with stocks, or are the two completely different? Also, is it possible...