When Profitable Trading developed a new indicator based on momentum two years ago, we knew it’d be good. After all, we had spent hundreds of hours backtesting it.  So it wasn’t shocking when it was a success right out of the gate. From the day we first revealed… Read More

If you fancy yourself a momentum investor, you’re likely intimately familiar with the concept of relative strength (RS) — arguably one of the most important technical investing tools and one that has withstood the test of time.  At its core, relative strength investing involves buying the best-performing stocks relative to… Read More

I want to share a little-known but powerful indicator with you today. To paraphrase hockey legend Wayne Gretzky, this indicator helps us skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been. In other words, we can use it to identify and anticipate strength and weakness… Read More

Everyone makes money investing by following a trend.  Whether your time horizon is minutes or months, a financial instrument must move in your favor to be profitable. It is that simple.  So finding an indicator to measure trend is critical to your success. There’s… Read More

Dear Profitable Trader readers, Next week, I’m headed to the 2015 Market Technicians Association’s (MTA) Gala Awards Dinner in New York City. The event is hosted by the MTA, a global organization of 4,500 professional investment analysts. I’m going because Amber was awarded the 2015 Charles H. Dow Award. This… Read More

Today, I want to tell you about an investing strategy that defies logic. It shouldn’t work based on everything we’ve learned about the stock market. Yet it does. In fact, for over half a century, investors and traders have used this strategy to produce unparalleled results. And no, for those… Read More

An old trader once told me, “Trading is the hardest easy money you’ll ever make.”  In theory, trading is easy enough — all you have to do is buy low and sell high, right? After all, there are thousands of books claiming to tell us everything we need to know. … Read More

What’s the first rule of successful real estate investing? Of course, you just said to yourself, “location, location, location.” Well, when it comes successful equity trading, the first rule that should come to your mind is “price, price, price.” More specifically, it is the share price performance of a stock… Read More

In the 1930s, a financial editor at Forbes magazine pieced together chart patterns. Richard Schabacker, who is considered to be the “father of technical analysis,” went beyond identifying how patterns looked on charts. He also looked broadly at investor psychology and noticed that it could explain why some chart patterns… Read More

Muddy Waters is an investment research firm that specializes in uncovering companies whose financial statements are inflated by questionable accounting practices. The firm was in the news again when it initiated coverage on NQ Mobile (NYSE: NQ), a company that provides software and services for mobile device users. Although NQ… Read More