Articles written by Martha Stokes CMT - Benzinga

The Best Candlestick Signals For Trading In Today's Stock Market

Professional Traders prefer Candlestick charts over all other charting types. Candlestick charts are now the most popular and for good reason. Professionals use Candlestick Buy Entry Signals that are not taught in the traditional Candlestick Books written in the 1990s.

How Technical Analysis Reveals Fundamentals To Price Values

A large part of my work over the last 25 years has been to teach my students and show the CMT and members that technical analysis is not a separate entity from the fundamentals of a company.

Retail Traders vs. Professional Traders: What's The Difference?

Standing on the NYSE Trading Floor years ago toward the end of the trading day, I observed the best floor traders in the world. It was extremely rare for an outsider to be allowed on the floor during business hours or even after hours. I watched the traders intently.

Should You Trade Stocks In Your Retirement?

It’s a wonderful concept: Retire on your 401(k), pension plan or IRA and go have fun. The reality for millions of Americans is totally different. Not only are Americans often living much longer than Financial Planners and Advisors plan for, the cost of retirement is much more than most retirees have planned and saved for.

Trading As A Career - How Can You Reap The Benefits?

For many traders, it is a lot of fun to make $200 trading for a couple of hours in the morning with the help of a “guru.” But the reality is that if you considered all the costs–your hourly wage, utility bills, the cost of the tools you use, any hidden fees, and other trading expenses–you would probably be shocked to discover that you did not make as much as you thought

Did YOU Just Buy A Trading Scam Or Ponzi Scheme?

It’s Saturday Morning with talk radio shows in full force. Advertisers are bombarding listeners who are retail traders with promotions for stock trading programs, training and group trading schemes.

Raise Your Expectations: Trading Opportunities To Change Your Life

I recently watched one of my students who learned from me years ago, talk on Benzinga. He had started with me as a retail trader just trying to figure out how to make some money trading stocks. TechniTrader education totally changed his life.

High Frequency Trading Firms: Avoid Or Trade Ahead Of Them

No matter what you are trading or investing in, no matter what strategies you use, your orders, your profits, and your ROI will be impacted by HFT activity from time to time. Your goal should be to learn to trade ahead of the HFTs or to avoid HFT activity altogether.

Trading The Buy Zone: Unlock Your Potential

Many may wonder: “What is the Buy Zone?” This is one of many Relational Technical Analysis patterns that you need to learn to be successful in today’s stock market. The Buy Zone is where Dark Pool Hidden Accumulation occurs. Identifying these Buy Zones helps with:

Trading Smarter With Relational Technical Analysis

Many traders are searching for the “holy grail” for picking winning stocks to trade–that magical indicator or that perfect candlestick pattern. Most are still searching after years of trying to learn to trade and actually make real money in the stock market.

The Obscure World Of Professional Traders

There are 12 distinctly different Market Participant Groups. Each group has an entirely different perspective, goal, amount of capital to invest, instruments, order types, routing, speed of execution, venues for trade execution–Dark or lit, Market Maker systems–intent of the stock investment or trade, mitigation tools and instruments to lower risk factors, and much more.

What Happens When You Add AI To Your Trading?

My goal as an educator of both professionals and retail traders is to provide my students with the best tools for trading that are available. As technology progresses over time, the tools that TechniTrader provides to students have evolved over the 25 years that we have been in business.

Are You Trading With Or Against The Market Makers?

Most retail traders blame the Market Makers for their losses. The reality is that you are often trading against a Market Maker rather than with the trend of the market. To provide some background, I’ll give you a synopsis of one of my personal experiences with Market Makers.

The Sweet Spot: How To Trade The Profit Zone

In any given market condition, there is a profit zone where most of the highly lucrative trades occur.

RIP Wall Street vs. Main Street

Whenever the retail news talks about Wall Street vs. Main Street, I just chuckle. Wall Street vs. Main Street is long gone. The new market structure is entirely different now, with exciting new opportunities for retail traders and investors.

The Hidden War Within The Stock Market

A war has been raging between the Giant Institutions of the Stock Market: the Buy-Side Institutions versus the Sell-Side Institutions. This hidden war started in 2008 and continues to impact every 401(k) or IRA holder, every self-directed investor and all short-term traders.

What Happens To Yahoo Stock After Alibaba IPO Party

Alibaba IPO Is A Red Flag For Shareholder Voting Rights

The Risk Of "Buying On The Dip" In August

The True Risk To The Financial Markets Is Not High Frequency Trading