TraderInterviews.com: Hello everybody and welcome back to TraderInterviews.com. Thanks very much for joining us for another show this week. As always, the intent of all of these shows is to give you traders out there something to think about and maybe add to your own trading strategy and arsenal out there so you can become a better and more consistent trader. And our guest today is Mark Moskowitz and he's a trader and he's going to talk to us about his overall approach to the markets. You may have remembered an interview we did with Dr. Doug a few weeks ago. And Dr. Doug actually interviewed Mark as well, so we got our interest in doing that same thing. So, Mark, thanks very much for joining us on the show today.
Mark Moskowitz: You're welcome Tim, thanks for having me on.
TraderInterviews.com: Well, can you talk about kind of your overall approach to the markets. Do you consider yourself a technician, a fundamental trader, how do you categorize yourself?
Mark Moskowitz: Well, Tim, I am an intraday trader, mostly equities, long and short sided, and I've obviously almost a 100% technical in my nature of trading. I use one strategy which is basically looking at pivot points. And pivot points, I use the previous days open-high-low and close that will give me four sets of pivot points. Two of them are long points and two of them are short points. And when I get signals based on that, I will make trades again on either the long or short side going into there. From there, I will use moving average lines 20-, 50- and 200-day moving averages to look for levels of support and resistance. And the chart that I use are typically short-term in nature. I use a three-minute chart, a five-minute chart, a 15-minute chart, and then again I look at a daily chart with those same moving averages, all just simply looking for some level of support and resistance and hopefully getting...
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