Intraday Trading
Most people know that stock markets tend to be much more active on the open and close, and are often "dead" in the middle of the day. This is important information for everyone. For intraday traders, the need to focus trading activity on the open and close is
Pullback
FOMO (fear of missing out) is a killer in the markets. One of the surest ways to lose money is to miss a trade, get frustrated, and then bang into a bunch of bad trades trying to make up for your miss. These emotions lead to many mistakes. This is
General Comments
At the end of last week (week ended 11/9/18), many technical analysis were pointing to "recoveries" in Europe and Asian stock indexes. The observation was that most global stock indexes had rallied over the past two weeks and were holding above lows. Throw in some (incorrect)
Market Math
Let's think a bit about "signal generation". When we test something in the market what we're looking for is an answer to "What happens after _______ occurs?" This is really the essence of all backtesting and system development--that question covers everything from casual
Breakout
I firmly believe the best trading lessons come from the market... and the best of the best trading lessons come from your own work and trading. Let me share some recent trades we published for our MarketLife clients. Below, you'll find every trade we published as part of
Anti
Market Math
There’s been a lot of discussion and stats thrown around recently, much of it centered around the idea of “like we just had the worst October ever.” I thought it might be interesting to crunch some numbers to see how bad it really was, and if we can draw
Volatility
Pullback
Here's a rambling, somewhat more personal blog post than most: Tom and I were going through some old trading documents last week when I stumbled across this pdf: the first writing for which I was ever paid, and the first piece I ever had in print--an article for
fundamental analysis
Much of my published work focuses heavily on technical analysis. I’ll discuss the reasons behind this decision more in the future, but I have also considered fundamental, macro, and economic factors in my analysis for over a decade. Today, I want to share a few thoughts on GDP, one
General Comments
Market Math
Please read my last post first, before you begin this one. I ended the last post by suggesting that we were probably more interested in changes than in price levels. If this isn’t immediately intuitive, then think about it like this: when you put on a position, it’s