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Market Math
How bad was October 2018, and what comes next?
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
Visualizing volatility: sector perspective
Pullback
Here's the very first thing I ever had published: an article on trading flags
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
A look at GDP: what it is and what it means
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
Chartschool: get the direction right
Market Math
Understanding intermarket relationships with scatterplots
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
Chart of the Day
Here's a kind of chart you should be using more
As I mentioned in my social media posts, I’m travelling this week and next so I will be a bit slower to get posts out. (I think an interesting topic is “vacation” for a trader. I’m writing this from my private terrace in Rome, but I’ve also
Support / Resistance
Chartschool: The importance of the previous day's high / low
Risk Management
Trailing stops: 9 ideas you can use today
Trade management is at least as important as trade entry, and maybe a lot more important. There are two main tools for trading management: profit targets and stops. From these two simple tools, complexities explode because there are many choices—where do we put them initially? Do we move them?
Breakout
Price action triggers: how much patience is too much?
Take a look at the chart below. We were looking to enter a short in gold (or silver), based on the long downtrend, and then a bounce that was likely setting up to be a bear flag. We also knew that there was reason to be cautious and to expect
Technical Patterns
Chartschool: do your own homework
In this video, I show you how to use an Excel spreadsheet and, in just a few minutes, get some basic answers about market tendencies and market stats.