What are the best tools and strategies that work for you??? I’ve been trading with paper money for about a month now and have had some success as well as some losses. I wanted to get some opinions from people who are successful at it. Thanks…
there are many ways to trade markets successfully. i trade stock index futures due to high liquidity and small spreads although they are not the easiest markets to predict. the idea is to exit a trade quickly if it turns out that the market moves differently than you anticipated. this should not happen a lot. on a profitable trade let it run until the direction starts to change. as a result your winning trades should make you much more than your losing trades cost you.
i don’t like day trading stocks or options due to inferior opportunities.
i use relatively few indicators as they are always late in their signals. i try to anticipate markets but i do use some oversold/undersold indicators to help me determine what may happen next. i feel a good trader could make money consistently with no indicators at all.
you need to be a consistent winner paper trading before you risk real money. the better you understand the markets that you trade the less you will need indicators. you will need to learn how to pick your entry points as well as your exits points and be right most of the time. patterns repeat themselves and you need to recognize them early. i like to enter a trade when i feel the odds favor a move. you must be very disciplined in your trades.
there is more i could say but this will get you started. usually the successful traders have studied the markets for years before they are able to be consistantly profitable.