Q&A  |  DEC 2002

Q&A by Don Bright

Q&A by Don Bright READING THE TAPE I’ve just finished reading some of your articles in STOCKS & COMMODITIES. Once again you illuminate topics that were unknown to me. I’m a novice trader in a proprietary program down on Wall Street, and I have been running into difficulty with this market (just as many others have). I have been trying different methods to see what might work for me. Recently, I have been employing a method that watches for size stepping up/down in stocks with volume on average between 80,000 and one million. I like this technique because I can clearly define my edge and believe it to have a positive expectancy. The trading has been rough, though, and I’m just accumulating small losses (being stopped out a lot). I haven’t had any sizable wins as of yet. Are you familiar with such an approach? The method involves reading the tape closely. Would you explain what trade-throughs and matching trades are? — John Pancrazi ...continuded

by Don Bright