Jim Cramer calls me his ‘VIX GUY’ because when he has VIX questions I have the answers. It’s not that I am super smart or some sort of mathematician, it’s because I had the opportunity to trade at the firm that rolled out the product. Being in close proximity to the brains behind the index helped […]

Selecting a Low-Risk Entry Point One of the simplest but most effective entry timing indicators are the Keltner Channels which can quickly and easily be downloaded from investing websites such as www.StockCharts.com. Steps for down loading the Keltner Channels follow. The Keltner Channels function as an overbought/oversold indicator that can help us select a buy […]

The cost of living is expensive.  Think back 20 or so years and see if you can remember what you thought it would cost to send your kids to college, or what the price of groceries would be.  Are your utilities higher?  Between currency devaluation and inflation, things cost much more now than what we […]

Combine these 3 strategies to help insure your sold strike never sees the light of day. First Master the Chart for the Stock or Index You are Trading. There is something valuable in watching a chart develop over time. It’s interesting to note how much value early stock traders reported receiving from manually plotting a […]

Most trading methods do make money when trading in perfect trending conditions, but then give back those same profits during periods of consolidation. So if you could learn to avoid consolidating markets, you could profitably trade many sound trading methodologies. This Special Report from Top Dog Trading is designed to help you avoid choppy markets. […]

In this video, I am going to show you how to deploy an easy to use strategy that works in any market, and in any time frame. In fact, it also works quite well with Options. It is purely based on technical analysis, and not on fundamentals. This strategy is based on the Guppy Multiple Moving Average […]

One of the most fundamental technical analysis tools that traders start off with is the moving average indicator. A few weeks ago I presented a short tutorial on utilizing the moving average indicator for short term trading. I demonstrated the best settings and presented a few demonstrations so that traders could get a good feel […]

The past 30 years have seen great advances in charts.  In 1987, only brokers had charts, unless you took the pain staking task of drawing them out yourself. In the 1990’s we had the internet boom which made attaining charts much easier but many were end of day.  Toward the late ’90’s trading platforms supplied […]