{"id":1715,"date":"2022-03-22T07:01:37","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T07:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdr.foobrdigital.com\/?p=1715"},"modified":"2022-03-22T07:01:37","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T07:01:37","slug":"momentum-trading-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/22\/momentum-trading-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Momentum Trading Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With a momentum strategy, an investor jumps on a stock whose price is moving up.&nbsp;Momentum stocks are rare and hard to find \u2014 only maybe about 10 out of 5,000 will fit the criteria in a given day, according to Warrior Trading.&nbsp;Look for these qualities in stocks if you\u2019re using a momentum trading strategy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>A major move in price, driven by catalysts like surprise earnings growth, a drug company\u2019s discovery of a new treatment, or news that a small company will be acquired by a larger firm<\/li><li>Stock movement of 30 to 40 percent<\/li><li>Smaller stocks, which trade faster due to the reduced number of outstanding shares \u2014&nbsp;the float should be under 100 million shares<\/li><li>Trends or ideas for momentum trading through tools like StockTwits, a financial communications platform<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>To protect from oversize losses, Warrior Trading sets a stop-loss order just below the first price decline. The stop loss works like insurance: You place a sell order for the stock at a predetermined price, so if the stock quote falls to a particular point, the shares are automatically sold, protecting you from further losses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a momentum strategy, an investor jumps on a stock whose price is moving up.&nbsp;Momentum stocks are rare and hard to find \u2014 only maybe about 10 out of 5,000 will fit the criteria in a given day, according to Warrior Trading.&nbsp;Look for these qualities in stocks if you\u2019re using a momentum trading strategy: A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[341],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}