What is a Stop Loss? By Mike Tibbits, YouCanTrade A stop loss is a type of order that is placed to exit a trade once the value of the position reaches a certain amount of loss. Stop losses are mainly used as an attempt to limit risk using a predefined set of rules that reduce the potential for an undefined amount of loss. For example, let’s say you buy a [...]
Join TJ this week to hear about the trades he placed in C and AMZN in the live trading room. The market looked bearish and the financial sector has been in a down trend recently. I wanted to take advantage of the decline in the market by trading a bear call spread in AMZN, Amazon and [...]
Join Sarah Potter and TJ to hear this latest podcast. In this episode, we discuss trading IPO’s and specific ways we are looking at trading recent stocks to go public like LYFT and BYND. Sarah has been particularly interested in buying BYND stock, especially after the stock rose about $65.00. BYND is a stock that is [...]
The new Futures Micro EMinis launched this week. The new futures contracts are one-tenth the size of the standard futures contract. Margin requirements are also lower than the standard contracts. The new contracts will offer a way to trade the US Equity Indexes with less capital required. On this episode of the SCT Podcast Sarah and [...]
The stock market is made to seem super complicated but the reality is that everyone can learn how it works and make money trading for them selves. March 8 is International Women's day and I would like to see some of the barriers to trading broken down and more women feeling like they can trade and [...]
The stock market is made to seem super complicated but the reality is that everyone can learn how it works and make money trading for themselves. March 8 is International Women's day and I would like to see some of the barriers to trading broken down and more women feeling like they can trade and can [...]
As a trader you have most likely heard the saying "Buy the Dip", what happens if a stock makes a large move down, should you still buy, and how far is too far? In this episode of the SCT Podcast Sarah and TJ will discus how to tell the difference between when you should buy the [...]
Chipotle had a strong run until their food safety issues took the stock from over $700 to a low of around $250. Chipotle seems to have put these issues behind them, and the stock price has rebounded. With a lift after earnings and analyst upgrade is it time to start looking at CMG again? In this [...]
Earnings season is here and the results are mixed. Over the next two weeks most of the companies will report earnings for the end of 2018. Facebook, Apple, Tesla, Amazon, Alphabet just to name a few of the big names that have just reported or will report in a few days. In this episode of the [...]
Media and social media has a tremendous effect on the markets. It also has and effect on the mind of a trader and how they place their trades. In this episode of the SCT Podcast, Sarah will discuss how the constant messaging from the media can have a negative effect on your trading and some strategies [...]
