Psychology
What is different and what stays the same? This is one of the key questions traders who trade on different timeframes or in different markets face. We often hear the argument that a technical tool or pattern works just the same on any market or any timeframe, that we can
Technical Patterns
This might be a more challenging blog post than most, but if you’re interested in really understanding price action I think it’s very important. Over the past several weeks I’ve been doing some deep dive coding and quant work. (Stuff like looking at correlation and cointegration in
Technical Patterns
It’s great when all stars align and every signal tells you to do the same thing. That’s the idea behind multiple timeframe analysis (which, by the way, is a topic that should be more controversial!)… imagine the profits that can result when forces on different timeframes roll in
Technical Patterns
Sometimes we can take tools we know and look at them in new ways. Doing this can give a surprising new perspective on how markets move, and can often suggest new places to look for edges. Here’s an example. I use Keltner Channels on all my charts, and have
Individual Traders
This is the third in my series of blog posts for beginning traders. One of the questions I see over and over is “how do I start learning technical analysis?” Let’s talk about some of the pitfalls of the traditional paths, and how I think you might better get
Technical Patterns
In the first blog in this new series for beginning traders/technical analysts, I suggested that the first goal of chart analysis is to understand the most likely emerging volatility conditions. In this blog, we’ll dig into that a little bit more, and talk about how we actually accomplish
Technical Patterns
This is the first in a short series of posts in which we will look at the basic, fundamental elements of directional trading. This series will be written for beginning traders—for those taking their very first steps—but I can promise insight for more experienced traders and investors, as
Technical Patterns
This blog post is a review of every TradeLab we have published for MarketLife since our previous post. TradeLab was designed to be an easily accessible and digestible "trading lesson" in context of a current setup in the market. We get to see patterns set up and play
Market Math
This is a slightly edited version of the note I sent to my Talon Advisors clients this weekend. There is always a lot of discussion about seasonality at the end of the year. This is a troublesome topic—on one hand, there are reasons why seasonality should work: portfolio managers
Risk Management
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?
Technical Patterns
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.
Technical Patterns
Just a quick post here to point out a trending pattern that should be in your toolkit. Take a look at the chart of SEAS above, which shows a particularly powerful trending pattern I have called "slide along the bands". Characteristics of this type of trend are: * It