by Mark Croock | May 3, 2023 | Trading Strategies
This week is turning into a major event for several market-wide catalysts … and it’s only Wednesday! Yesterday, the regional banking crisis came back to haunt the market, with the S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSEARCA: SPY) falling as much as 1.4% intraday. U.S. regulators...
by Mark Croock | May 1, 2023 | Trading Strategies
Knowing when to exit a winning trade is one of the most delicate balancing acts in the stock market… More than half of the battle is finding these excellent setups and entering at the right price point. But if you don’t exit the trade correctly, all of the work you...
by Mark Croock | Apr 13, 2023 | Trading Strategies
Let me tell you something I wish I knew when I first started trading — perma-bears and perma-bulls tend to get smoked in the market. These strategies can work for a while. For example, had you been a perma-bull and held stocks in the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust...
by Mark Croock | Feb 2, 2023 | Trading Strategies
When the markets are experiencing a major catalyst — like Fed’s FOMC meeting and Chairman Jerome Powell’s speech yesterday — you can’t trade the same way you do during a normal week, expecting similar results. Even though the major question has now been answered (the...
by Mark Croock | Jan 19, 2023 | Trading Strategies
For the most part, trading is a solitary activity. You sit by yourself in a room full of screens, waiting for that perfect opportunity to strike. Up to a certain point, trading on your own is a good thing as it forces you to learn valuable skills without relying on...
by Mark Croock | Dec 19, 2022 | Trading Strategies
First of all, Happy Hanukkah! To all my Jewish Evolvers, Chag sameach! And to everyone else, welcome to a new market! Now that last week’s slew of economic data is behind us, we can start to look beyond the Federal Reserve and toward the close of this historically...