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Sunday, August 30, 2009

Let The Stock Market Spit Money At You Like A Broken ATM Machine!

By Lance Jepsen

The closing price is not equal to the opening price when it comes to trading in the stock market. You need to know that the closing price is much more important than the opening price. You are about to discover a little known truth that will have the stock market shooting out money like a broken ATM!

Let's begin.

The closing price reflects the final consensus of value for the day. This is the price most people look at when they get off work or when they print their daily charts at the end of the day. It is especially important in the futures markets, because the settlement of trading accounts depends on it.

Professional traders trade throughout the day. Early in the day they take advantage of opening prices, selling high openings and buying low openings, and then unwinding those positions as the day goes on. Their normal mode of operations is to fade"trade against"market extremes and for the return to normalcy. When prices reach a new high and stall, professionals sell, nudging the market down. When prices stabilize after a fall, they buy, helping the market rally.

Amateur and non-professional traders have very different trading patterns than those of professional and institutional traders. Amateur traders make up the majority of market participants at market open. As the day goes on, they slowly subside until all that is left at the end of the trading day are professional and institutional traders. Most amateur traders put on a trade at market open, before work, and then don't check it again until after market close.

Knowing what time of day the amateurs trade and what time of day the professionals trade gives you a huge advantage in the market place! Think about it for a minute. Closing prices reflect the opinions of the professional and institutional traders while opening prices reflect the opinion of amateur traders. Look at almost any stock chart and you will see how often the closing and the opening ticks are at opposite ends of a stock's daily candlestick. This tells you that professional and institutional traders are usually on the opposite side of the trade as amateurs are. So which group should YOU trade with? Why the group that has the most money to invest in the stock market because they can move the stock the most. This means that you want to be on the side of the trade that professionals are on. Trade with the professionals, not against them.

If a stock opens and runs up near its day's high at market open, then falls the rest of the day and closes near its day's low at market close, you want to close out your position if you are long. This is your first clue that the stock has run up enough to get the attention of professional traders who are fading against your position. - 23311

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