Learn effective stop-loss placement strategies based on market structure to enhance your trading risk management.

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

In this article we will test a trading system based on a trend-following breakout logic, applied to one of the world's most famous and most traded indexes, the Nasdaq. Since we are trading the CME ...

Are you using the Zig Zag indicator the wrong way? Most traders leave their indicators on default settings, but the market doesn't work in "defaults." In this clip, Barchart’s Senior Market Strategist ...

So often, a good trading plan is ruined by sub-optimal execution. Sometimes we can identify great trends with strong underlying fundamentals, only to join the trend when it's about to end. Other times ...

Stock market volatility is a complex subject that many investors do not fully understand. In the simplest sense, stock market volatility (or "vol" in Wall Street parlance) measures fluctuations in ...