Chartreaders Blog

     As the new decade begins, many people will continue to struggle with employment issues. The economy is showing some signs of recovery, but there are still major underlying problems that have not been dealt with. U.S. debt is one of the big ones, and the country’s effort to move from a consumption state back [...]

The Existing Home Sales report is issued by the National Association of Realtors around the 25th of each month, and is based on transaction closings in the United States. Home sales are defined as single family homes, townhomes, condominiums and co-ops from each of four regions, the Northeast, Midwest, South, and West. All figures are seasonally [...]

  Everyone has stood in a mall at one time or another, watching the crowds of people, or sat in front of their TV looking at long lines of traffic, enduring the daily commute.  Crowds of people are crowds of consumers. They are the anonymous masses who make the world go around, and what they [...]

               Everybody knows the old cliche about patience and all its virtues. In trading patience takes on a whole new meaning. When you combine it with greed, fear, and a fast paced market, you really begin to understand how important it is. For new traders this can be a very tough lesson to learn, [...]

Many people think trading is a highly complicated, technical business, and it is, but believe it or not the tech. side is only about a quarter of what goes on. By far the hardest part of becoming a good trader is mastering the discipline, which is control of feelings in the heat of the moment. [...]