Failure Test
Domestic Stock Index Analysis (10/6/11)
A look at the technical position of the S&P Index 10/6/11. Illustrates use of simple technical patterns and relationships to derive an edge.
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Failure Test
Market Pattern: The Failure Test
There is a theory of market behavior that essentially says that markets exist to create trading activity and volume; whether this is precisely true, or whether it completely explains all market activity, is not important. The concept is valid: markets move to levels where orders are clustered. Markets run stops.
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So You Want to be a Trader? (Reading list 2/3)
This post is a continuation from the first post in this series, and the last post can be found here. In that first post, I suggested a set of books to build a good foundation for market knowledge. Most of those topics were foundational, somewhat abstract, and removed from actual
General Comments
My Approach to Markets and Trading
A summary of my core beliefs about markets.
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So You Want to be a Trader? (Reading list 1/3)
My involvement with markets is nearing the two-decade mark, and one thing that never seems to change is the number of courses, books or services sold to the public that promise easy profits if you can only learn a specific system or pattern. My message is very different: I believe
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A First Look at the Book
A table of contents and some thoughts on the process of writing The Art and Science of Technical Analysis
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So you want to be a trader?
Truth be told, I'm a little embarrassed about how I got started trading, but I guess I'm about to share my humble beginnings with the internet... When I graduated from college, I got a ridiculous brochure in the mail with a guy in a cowboy hat
General Comments
A Tale of Two Audiences
One thing has become very clear over the past few months. I have struggled with figuring out how to manage diverse media outlets and how to balance conversations with investors and traders all levels of sophistication. This has always been a struggle for me, but, in the process of writing