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How much do day traders make? What real account data shows
Most day traders make nothing. They lose money. In one large study of real accounts, 97% of Brazilians who day traded futures for at least 300 days…
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Keltner channel: I tested it on the S&P 500 and Bitcoin
A Keltner channel is a 20-day exponential moving average with a line two average true ranges above it and two below. I tested it on 56 years of S&P…
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FOMC and the stock market: What 261 Fed decision days show
Do stocks go up on Fed days? I took all 261 scheduled FOMC decisions from February 1994 to September 2026 and checked how the S&P 500 closed on each…
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Double top pattern: What 56 years of S&P 500 data show
A double top is two peaks at about the same price with a dip between them. It counts as confirmed when price closes below the low of that dip, the…
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Best day to buy stocks: What 66 years of S&P 500 data show
The best day of the week to buy stocks depends on which decades you look at, and for a long-term investor it barely matters. I checked every trading…
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Dollar cost averaging vs lump sum: What 38 years of S&P 500 data show
Dollar cost averaging means investing a sum in equal parts over several months instead of all at once. I tested both on the S&P 500 with dividends…