If you're familiar with Raindrop Candlestick Charts, you may be familiar with Balloon Raindrops. If not, don't worry, we'll explain the concept in this post and how you can screen for and use Balloon Raindrops in your stock trading strategy.

People often wonder how to find stocks to trade or how to scan for complex criteria. We do weekly watch lists so we thought we might as well share some insight on how we scan specifically. This can apply to both day trading and swing trading.

Have you ever thought of a stock trading strategy that could be profitable but you didn't want to waste the time or money to find out by actually trading it? Well, that's what backtesting is for, and no, you don't need to know how to code a strategy in order to backtest. Backtesting is easy and this post will show you how to do it. We'll even show the results of a simple MACD crossover strategy.

Have you ever wondered what technical indicator can give you the extra edge that you are looking for when it comes to stock trading? Whether day trading or swing trading, for us, that indicator is volume. This post will show you how we like to use volume analysis for trading.

Traders often toggle between various time frames when analyzing a stock. Common time frames for traders are the weekly, daily, 4 hour, 2 hour, hourly, 30, 15, 5, and 1 minute charts. Swing traders often use the 60 minutes or higher, and day traders typically use 30 minutes or less. While 2 hour and hourly (60 minute) charts can be good for futures or forex trading, it does not make too much sense to use these for stocks. We'll explain why in this article.

What is an engulfing candlestick and how can you use it in your trading strategy? There are two types: the bullish engulfing, and the bearish engulfing candle. A bullish engulfing candle can indicate a change in momentum to the upside. The opposite is true for a bearish engulfing candle. The pattern is made up of 2 candlesticks, where the most recent candle's body fully engulfs the body of the previous candle.