Turn The Stock Market Into Your Own Personal ATM Machine Shocker!

In the stock market, the opening price is not as important as the closing price. The closing price is king. Knowing that the closing price is more important than the opening price will give you a major advantage over most stock market traders. You are about to learn how to pull crazy profits out of the stock market from this simple yet profound truth.

Let’s begin.

The closing price reflects the final consensus of value for the day. This is the price most people look at when they get off work or when they print their daily charts at the end of the day. It is especially important in the futures markets, because the settlement of trading accounts depends on it.

Professional and institutional traders will trade all during the day. At market open, they take advantage of opening prices by fading gaps. They will buy low openings and sell high openings. They will then unwind those positions as the day progresses. They routinely trade against market extremes and bet on a return to normalcy for any given stock. When a stock hits a new high and then volume drops off, professional traders will sell which pushes the market lower. When a stock hits a new low and then volume begins to drop off on the sell side, professional traders buy which pushes the market higher.

The waves of buying and selling by amateurs that hit the market at the opening usually subside as the day goes on. Why? Most traders on the west coast have a day job they have to go to so they log-on in the morning before work, put on a trade, then check it when they get home. Even traders on the east coast will put on a position at market open while at work and then check it at the end of the day. Near the closing time the market is dominated by professional traders.

Knowing this is a huge advantage! Why? Because it means that closing prices reflect the opinions of professionals. Look at any chart, and you will see how often the opening and closing ticks are at the opposite ends of a price bar. This is because amateurs and professionals tend to be on the opposite sides of trades. You want to trade with the professionals, not against them.

If a stock opens and runs up near its day’s high at market open, then falls the rest of the day and closes near its day’s low at market close, you want to close out your position if you are long. This is your first clue that the stock has run up enough to get the attention of professional traders who are fading against your position.

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