The Trader's Plan Podcast

Making money in the stock market is hard. Only a few decades ago, the stock market moved as fast as humans could pick up a telephone and place orders. Market moving news came at a much slower pace giving market analysts more time to study and adjust to changing market conditions. Today, automatic trading by computers makes up the majority of trades. In less time than it takes to blink an eye, computers are moving markets based on the rapid 24/7 news cycle. How does anybody keep up with a market that changes so fast? At WooTrader, we asked the same question. For years, Wall Street gurus have relied on a mix of technical and fundamental indicators. Popular metrics like P/E ratio, quarterly revenue, and 50 day moving averages have dominated analyst playbooks. But those computers that are making most of the market trades may not look at any of those metrics right now. The metrics that are moving the market are constantly changing, so the information you’re using to evaluate the market should change too. That’s wh