Recent content by Richard Ratchford

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    Getting Started Break Free of Old Trading Ideas

    The title of this article alone is likely to raise the hairs on the back of many necks. The thought of pushing away concepts and ideas used for decades may sound ludicrous to you, but allow me to elaborate. Old and proven ideas should never be pushed aside. Rather, the old ideas that have not...
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    Technical Analysis Cycles, Trends and Pause Formation

    Recently I sent out to my free newsletter subscribers a lesson I had written a couple years ago dealing with what I call the PAUSE formation. The reason for this was that a market that I had been sharing future cycle turn dates on had formed the early warning sign for a PAUSE formation and may...
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    Psychology Getting Started Trading Discipline – Do you Have It?

    dis ci pline (n.) 1. Training intended to produce a specified character or pattern of behavior. 2. Controlled behavior resulting from such training. 3. A state of order based upon submission to rules and authority. WEBSTER'S CONCISE DICTIONARY. How do you react to rules? Do you find them to be...
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    Fundamental Analysis Technical Analysis Market Action And Reaction

    Newton's Third Law of Motion states that "for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." Such 'action' can be by direct contact, such as from friction, tension or applied forces. Then you have such 'actions' as a result of gravity, electrical and magnetic. Forces come in pairs...
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