Investors – Retail vs Institutional

Investors are not all the same, and there are several distinctions between institutional investors and non-institutional, or retail, investors. For markets like ours here in the Philippine Stocks Exchange, especially …

Trading Setup

Here’s a quick cheat sheet I made a while back on some of my most favorite setups. Written there are my triggers and actions to take when a certain price …

Logic vs Emotion

Emotion In the Market

  Q: how to minimize emotion in trading? A: apply logic   Unfortunately, Emotion is something na hindi natin pwedeng  mtanggalin sa market. The good news is , we can …

Dividend

Anatomy of a Dividend

There are two primary ways to make money when you invest in the Philippine stock market. First is when the price per share of a stock increases – let’s say …

Beginner stock trader investor

7 Tips for Newbie Stock Investors

We all started from the beginning. Where terms like valuation, target price, support/resistance, hold, IPO, and many more doesn’t makes sense. But oh boy! once you made your first bet, …

MACD

MACD: Moving Average Convergence/Divergence Oscillator A trend-following momentum indicator that shows the relationship between two moving averages of prices. The MACD is calculated by subtracting the 26-day exponential moving average …

Trendline-feature

How to identify trends?

Trend trading is the simplest and most basic among the technical analysis family. A lot of times, it can make or break your gains. At least to me it did. …