General Comments
Due to a recent uptick of impersonators and scam accounts, I want to clarify a few critical points regarding my communication and services. My contact policy * I will never contact anyone with any special opportunities, investment schemes, or other opportunities not available to the public. I will not reach out
Anti
Were you caught off guard last week? Did you expect the market to do something it didn’t do? One of the most reliable, recurring market patterns is the concept that sharp impulse moves followed by a quiet period usually lead to another move in the same direction. Recent action
Quantitative analysis
Did you catch what happened in the market last week? Stressed out about the future? Worried about your positions or retirement account? Are you hearing people talk about the ominous weekly candlestick pattern? If so, let me show you how to think about the market. Last week, which ended on
Individual Traders
In trading, perhaps more than most other fields, there’s a big gap between knowledge and results. Success can be elusive, and the path to that success, for both discretionary and systematic traders, is not clearly marked. Essential knowledge Many people are drawn to markets as a way to make
Pullback
Pullbacks are a great way to trade. But, with any trade, the problem is that some trades work and some don’t. There are ways to tell which pullbacks are more likely to lead to winning trades, and one of the best ways is to put the setup in context.
Market Math
Good tools can help us sort through the mass of market data each day to focus on what matters. Of course, there are many things we might want to filter for, and that’s one of the first questions to consider. For my work, one important category of markets are
music
This is a follow-up to this post, where I discussed a bit about my journey that started with music, took me far away, and brought me back. As I’ve composed new music in recent years, I’ve repeatedly encountered requests from people who weren’t sure how to think
General Comments
This is a follow-up to this post in which I laid out the conceptual background that supports my trading. In today’s post, I’ll get into specific ideas and structures I look for when trading. Charts Charts are my primary tool for trading. I use both candlestick charts and
General Comments
Word Count: 1506 Estimated Reading Time: 7-8 minutes While I’ve written extensively on trading approaches and market movements, I still get many questions like, “How do you trade?” and “What tools do you use?” In this post, I’ll share the frame work that makes it all work for
General Comments
Estimated time to read: < 5 minutes As many of you know, in addition to my work as a trader in financial markets, I’m also a classically-trained musician. Recently, I’ve shared some of my musical compositions in a few forums, and I’ve had several people say things
Market Math
Yesterday, I saw someone on Facebook recommending a buy based on a moving average cross. (We already know that moving average signals are not reliable trading signals.) This person was also suggesting that we should be treating Bitcoin “like a savings account, having some cash flow go into it.” While
The Book
We are a little behind on these write-ups, but I want to share an outline and playback from Hudson Session 5, which was held on 24 June 2023. The Hudson Sessions are a series of in-depth talks, each on a chapter of my first book, The Art & Science of