Market on close orders (MOC Orders) are an extremely useful tool to help you get in or out of the market at the closing price without having to place your order right when the market closes.
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Knowing When to Put A Stop Loss When The Market is Correcting
This ‘Learn Stock Trading’ page addresses the issue of whether a trader who previously didn’t have exits or stop losses should put in a stop loss or close positions given the market is correcting.
Learn Stock Trading Trading Profit: What Is A Realistic Target?
Learn Stock Trading: When looking at developing my trading plan and setting my trading objectives, what is a realistic trading profit to target? Does this depend on what I am willing to risk?
How To Calculate Position Sizing | What Is The Best Way?
Learn stock trading with my private email coaching program clients. In this video I explained the right way to calculate position size for your stock trading system.
Stock Trading Systems: Is End Of Day Stock Market Data Reliable?
Learn Stock Trading: A client asked me: "Is end of day stock market data reliable?". The answer is that it is not inherently reliable or unreliable
How to Set achievable CAGR & Drawdown targets for stock portfolio
Learn Stock Trading: Setting CAGR and drawdown targets helps you develop your stock trading system quickly and reduce over optimization.
Learn Stock Trading Leverage: Why Is Too Much Dangerous?
Learn stock trading – get your trading questions answered: Leverage is a double edged sword – it can help you make more money, but it can also cause you to lose much more money if you are not careful.
Learn Stock Trading: Curve Fitting – Why Is It A Problem?
Learn Stock Trading: Curve fitting is the evil nemesis of system traders. Avoiding curve fitting and over optimisation is the key to developing a trading system that will work into the future.
How Much Capital Should You Risk Per Trade? | Learn Stock Trading
Learn Stock Trading: The maximum amount of capital you have at risk in the market at any one time is a very important question to answer to ensure you don’t blow up your account.
Can I trade multiple time frames with EOD stock market data?
Learn Stock Trading: When I use EOD stock market data can I trade all time frames with it? Answer: No – EOD data generally refers to daily price bars so you can trade timeframes longer than 1 day only