Samantha (Sam) Silberstein, CFP®, CSLP®, EA, is an experienced financial consultant. She has a demonstrated history of working in both institutional and retail environments, from broker-dealers to ...

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Day trading is all about recognizing patterns in stock charts, and no concept is more important for new traders to learn than ABCD pattern trading. This pattern ...

My dad passed away last night at the age of 87. Thus ends perhaps the longest independent options trading career ever, as he started not much after Day 1 of publicly listed options and he literally ...

If you’re already active in the stock market, some of the terms and concepts of options trading mechanics will be familiar. When you contact your broker to initiate a trade, you’ll encounter the usual ...

If you’re interested in trading, then you’ll probably want to get familiar with put vs. call options. Getting involved with options trading can give you more flexibility and help you get involved with ...

With the Libor debacle, Barclays has been all over the news this week. So I thought I'd check in on the chart I put up on the screen at the MoneyWeek conference in April. And as I'll show you, the ...

Triangle pattern trading is a strategy many day traders use to enter and exit their positions with confidence as prices stabilize. Triangles are a continuation pattern, meaning they’re not marked by a ...