While buying quality companies and holding them for the long term should always be your primary investment strategy, if you want shorter term profits today’s market requires you to trade.

The reason is that short-term traders need to have a winning strategy and an excellent tactical plan.

I didn’t make money my first year of trading.

It’s that time again… Chris and I are releasing our second episode of Crypto Claptrap, our monthly conversation on all things crypto, including our predictions on where things are headed next.

Supply is unlikely to expand significantly as OPEC has kept a lid on production and new regulations limit drilling in the U.S. Although the path of oil prices is uncertain, the future direction of prices is likely to be volatile… As I’ve written before, options can also be used to...

But last week, the options activity in the SPY was heavily bearish.

This is a conservative trading strategy, which involves maintaining a portfolio of the top-performing ETFs at any given time.

So let’s take a look at Facebook today and see if this dip is a buying opportunity… What the Profit Radar Says About Facebook With the drop on Monday, it brings the current pullback in the stock to 15%.

But the conditions that supported the stock market are undergoing a major evolution, which is giving way to a new winner.

I’ll also reveal how it helped me identify a key difference between Mike and Chad … They are nearly identical, but there’s one thing in their personality profile that sets them apart, and that difference tells you everything you need to know about their investing approaches.