Recent content by Richard Joyson

My Background Long ago in a grimy smog stricken slum in Leeds, I decided to become a doctor or dentist in general practice, partly because of my antipathy to working for anyone else and my reluctance to have to crawl my way up through a company, hospital or any institution. In other words, I...

So why do I trade US shares intra-day? The prime mover market in the world is in the US. Here in the UK we are essentially influenced by the US economy and its stock market. How many times, for example, have you seen the London market open at a level dictated by what happened in the US the...

PM: = Paul Mullen (Interviewer) RJ: = Richard Joyson (Mr Charts) PM: What markets do you trade and what do you do? RJ: I trade almost entirely U.S. shares on a day trading basis. I'm in trades for really anything from half a minute to as long as two or three hours. So, there isn't an average...

This brief video clip is one of a growing library of over-the-shoulder videos I have made to help people learn tape reading by seeing examples for themselves. They are not structured teaching videos as such, more commentary. As they were created live at the time I was able to point out some of...

There are many ways to trade, but I like combining some fundamental, knowledge or perhaps some news, an understanding of technical analysis, a grasp of how markets behave and the ability to read sentiment as demonstrated in price action, buy/sell pressures and the actual trades printing off -...

Today is Monday December 27th and the US is open. Many would say, "oh, what's the point, the action will be thin and the pickings, if any, hard." Well, in my experience, that approach is mistaken. 36 minutes before the market even opened today, I read this story: "Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) said...