Market Math
In my weekend research report I write for my clients, I shared a few thoughts on correlation. This is a timely topic--we may be entering a period of the market history where a lot of assets link together. This is a risk, as there's always the risk of
Readers Questions
I received a good question from Nick: In many of your writings as well as the most recent podcast, you have mentioned looking at charts prior to going to bed. Given that the stock market closes much earlier in the evening, can you please elaborate on some of the benefits
Individual Traders
We live in a "quick fix" world in which everyone is looking for "hacks" to solve and shortcut problems. The internet is filled with "you're doing it wrong" posts that purport to show you how to do everything from tying your shoes
Podcast
This episode picks up where we left off last week, and I share a technique for learning remembering anything you want to learn with nearly perfect recall. One thing is important: I go through an exercise in this episode in which I work through a list of words, associating images
Risk Management
Some trades are obviously simple on the surface: if we think the S&P 500 is going up, we buy the S&P 500. Yes, there are questions to be answered: how much? How do we know we are wrong? Where are we getting out if we'
Pullback
Effective trading patterns are usually simple. The more complicated an idea is, the more likely it is the result of trying to fit very random data (i.e., the market) into a preconceived mold. I think many of the patterns and ratios of traditional technical analysis are the result of
Podcast
Over the course of the next two or three podcasts, I want to share some tools and techniques I've been using to supercharge my learning. In my case, I've focused these tools on learning a spoken language (French), but these are powerful, raw techniques that you
Individual Traders
I received a lengthy question for a reader who has put in a lot of time learning to trade, and has not yet left the trading simulator. I thought his questions were insightful, and they mesh well with a topic I'm considering covering in some depth: how to
Pullback
I initiated a short in crude oil back in July, and an astute reader sent me a good question. For many weeks/months I had been operating with the assumption that crude oil was probably putting in a long-term bottom based on the action back in March/April of 2015;
General Comments
I thought I'd kick the week off with a short, and maybe uncharacteristically personal post. As you've noticed, I haven't posted much (umm... at all) over the past few weeks. I was on a little "vacation" eating my way through part of
General Comments
Just a quick (semi) post here to apologize for the lack of new posts here! I have some good stuff for you soon, but also a few things sucking up all available time. Think of a week or two here as me taking a mini vacation from blogging... though you
Climax
This podcast episode looks at trading around market extremes, Acts of God, and very large market moves. From market history, some examples might be 9/11, 1987, Fukushima, Katrina, etc. Today, Greece has the potential to lead to these types of moves and extremes. Technical traders need to understand these