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Download30 Years of Trading Wisdom - Part 1
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Having been involved in the futures markets for the past 30 years it has never really been obvious to me why some people win and some people lose. But in giving it some more thought, I've made the following deductions.
A Nondirectional Trading Strategy For Cryptocurrencies, Part 1
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Crypto markets can move faster and more predictably than other markets, so these markets are attractive to traders. Here is a trading strategy you can use whether the cryptocurrency being traded is falling or rising. Here in part 1, the focus is bitcoin
A complete computer trading program (part 1) by John F. Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A complete computer trading program (part 1) by John F. Ehlers This is the first of four articles that give a description and computer listing, enabling you to perform technical analysis with your computer. In the second article I will cover the basics
Aligning Trading Systems And Markets-Part 1
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using the wrong system for a specific market makes for a quick ride to failure.
An Early Warning System, Part 1
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Irrational human behavior influences stock prices, and this behavior can lead to predictable outcomes. Here's a trading system that takes advantage of overreactions in the market, which could give you a trading edge
An Introduction To Options, Part 1: Form And Function
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Are you considering option trading but not sure where to start or whether they're for you? In this article series, we'll introduce you to the world of options and cover all the most important aspects of them
Anatomy Of A Breakdown (Part 1)
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...To successfully identify a break down as it begins to happen, it is essential to learn to look for signs of technical weakness on the chart.
Anatomy Of Moving Average Trading Part 1: Black Swan Events
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Can technical analysis save investors from a prolonged down period in the market? In this first part of a look at trading with moving average systems, we'll present the results of a study testing a variety of moving average-based trading rules on six U.S
Applied Technical Analysis, Part 1: The SCVolatility Band Indicator
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Traders need a foundational way to approach the markets, to know what to look for and for how to make buy and sell decisions. Here, we begin a new article series that will step you through this process, starting with applying very basic technical analysi
Boost Your Strategy Development, Part 1: The Optimizer Contest
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading strategies usually involve adjustable parameters, and trading strategy development involves optimizing those parameters to find the best inputs and variables for the most profitable results. Here is an overview of some available optimizer types,
Cryptocurrencies And Seasonality: Crypto Summer (Part 1)
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Did you know a pattern exists in cryptocurrencies where two years of a bear market are often followed by two years of a bull market? This is a type of seasonality that you can profit by, both on the short and long side. Here is what to look for to help s
Day Trading Basics Part 1
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The first thing to do before making any trading decisions, whether it is day trading or position trading, is to study the general picture of the market. Your objective should be to trade with the direction of the market. Once you determine this, the ne
Daytrading Rule 1: No Overnights
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Having the discipline to follow your rules of daytrading will limit your losses and maximize your gains. Find out how one rule can make a world of difference.
Divergences 1, Candlesticks 0
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A negative stochastic divergence compels the emini S&P 500 lower in spite of signs of buying strength.
Ehlers Loops, Part 1
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Introducing a new way to discretionarily predict bullish and bearish moves in the market
Elliott Waves: How High Is High? Part 1
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...One of the keys to profitable trading is identifying the lowest low and the highest high. But how low is low and how high is high? That's a tough question to answer. The best you can do is to apply proper tools and money management practices
Expansions & Contractions, Part 1
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Every trader wants to be able to predict price moves. But we know that it's impossible to do so. Instead, focus on finding high-probability setups and manage them well. In this first part of a three-part series, we'll look at how to identify these profit
Exploring Charting Techniques, Part 1
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...What type of chart should you be using? Lines, bars, candlesticks... there are so many choices. In this first part of a six-part series, an overview of charting styles is presented that may help you make the right choice for analyzing the markets.
Far East Flavor Part 1 - The Hammer
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...If you are a visual thinker like myself, you might find candlestick charts more informative than the standard bar charts. By turning the open, high, low, and close (OHLC) data of the traditional bar chart into candlesticks, daily price changes, and chart
Head & Shoulders, Algorithmically, Part 1
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Ever wanted to use a simple mechanical recognition algorithm in your favorite software for spotting head & shoulders patterns? If yes, this two-part article is for you. Here's the first part.
Indicator Rules For Swing Trading Strategies, Part 1
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In today's volatile markets, making money consistently is a challenge. You need a good strategy with reliable trading rules. This seven-part series will discuss such a strategy and its trading rules. In this, the first part, an overview is presented.
Introduction to spread investing Part 1 by Frank Taucher
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Introduction to spread investing Part 1 by Frank Taucher Most commodity traders are aware of the lower risk and margin requirements that traditional spread trading offers vs. outright long or short positions. Many even have a favorite spread or two that
Linear Regression Of Price And Time Part 1: Three Basic Tools
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The concept of using a regression line to define price trend takes a big step forward here by introducing three powerful tools you can calculate in Excel. With these tools, you can accurately measure performance, minimize risk, and compare the strength o
MACD momentum Part 1 by Thomas Aspray
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...MACD momentum Part 1 by Thomas Aspray In the fall of 1986, I completed work on a new indicator: the MACD Histogram/Momentum. As many of you are already aware, the MACD, or Convergence/Divergence, is an excellent indicator, but its signals often lag when
Market Profile and market logic Part 1 by Thomas P. Drinka and Robert L. McNutt
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market Profile and market logic Part 1 by Thomas P. Drinka and Robert L. McNutt Following more than four years of development by J. Peter Steidlmayer and the Chicago Board of Trade, the CBOT Market Profile and Liquidity Data Bank went online in 1985. Wi
Modern portfolio theory: A powerful tool for futures investing Part 1 by Gary S. Antonacci
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Modern portfolio theory: A powerful tool for futures investing Part 1 by Gary S. Antonacci In an effort to improve on the traditional risk and return characteristics available from investment opportunities, academic researchers developed Modern Portfol
Moving Average Bands Part 1
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...These dynamic bands change as volatility increases and decreases. Use them to signal potential entry points in uptrends and downtrends or to help identify overbought and oversold levels in flat markets
Moving averages Part 1 by John Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Moving averages Part 1 by John Ehlers Averages have long been recognized as the best estimator of a random variable. Traders use moving averages as trading signals or as components of trading systems, but the moving average characteristics are seldom de
On System Development Part 1 by Mark Vakkur, M.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...On System Development Part 1 by Mark Vakkur, M.D. Here's one for the first-time developer of a trading system, or someone who's thinking about developing a system. Here are the basic steps this author took to develop a system for the stock market. Suc
PENDY'S PICKS: August 1, 2012
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The .OEX pulled back slightly on Tuesday, confirming a minor-degree cycle high.
Part 1 Assessing risk on Wall Street A philosophy of investing by Thomas A. Rorro
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...part 1 Assessing risk on Wall Street A philosophy of investing by Thomas A. Rorro The goal of investing is to make a profit. To achieve this goal, the investor places his money at risk--with the hope of increasing his wealth. Whether by buying real estat
Part 1. Concepts and Examples A Trend Following Method for All Seasons by Anthony W. Warren
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Part 1. Concepts and Examples A Trend Following Method for All Seasons by Anthony W. Warren, Ph.D. Introduction Trend following methods based on plots of raw and moving average data are one of the oldest and most universally used techniques of technica
Peak performance in volatile markets, Part 1 by Neal Weintraub and Susan Arenson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Peak performance in volatile markets Part 1 by Neal Weintraub and Susan Arenson Man alone, of all the creatures of the earth, can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny. The greatest discovery in our generation is that hum
Playing the opening range breakout Part 1 by Toby Crabel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Playing the opening range breakout Part 1 by Toby Crabel Opening range breakout is one of the most important indicators of daily market direction that a trader can utilize. An opening range breakout (ORB) is a trade taken at a predetermined amount abov
Price pattern studies Part 1 by Toby Crabel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Price pattern studies Part 1 by Toby Crabel Do prices tend to move consistently in one direction from open to close, given the previous day's price pattern, and do these patterns of intraday bias lend themselves to profitable trading systems? To answer
Product Review: 0DTE Options Trading Workshop, Part 1
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Some 40% of daily trading in options is now in zero-days-to-expiration (0DTE) contracts, which are contracts that expire the same day they are traded
Product Review: eSignal 10 and Advanced GET Edition (Part 1)
Product review: NinjaTrader 8 Part 1
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...NinjaTrader has a dedicated following and for good reason. It is broker independent, the price is attractive, it supports a lot of datafeeds, and it's easy to use. For the benefit of its dedicated followers, NinjaTrader's new release NinjaTrader 8 (NT8)
Product review: OptionStrategist.com (Part 1)
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Service offering advisories, analysis tools, and educational materials
Product review: VectorVest 7 Premium, Part 1
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading stocks has never been easier, more fun, or more affordable. But if new or experienced investors or traders learn the wrong approach instead of educating themselves, the results can be catastrophic mentally and financially. Platforms that offer go
Profit-Taking And Resets Part 1: Trend-Following
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In this first part of a two-part series, we look at long-term trends and different ways to take profits and reenter trades
Quick Scan: John Murphy Explains Market Analysis, Volume 1
Quick Scan: The Ultimate Book on Stock Market Timing, Volume 1
Reacting To Market Moves, Part 1
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The reason we make counterproductive trading decisions is because of our biases and flawed intuition. In this first part of a two-part series, we analyze and try to understand these trading behaviors so we can avoid costly mistakes and become more effect
Richard Demille Wyckoff Part 1
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...This article is the first of a five-part series about Richard D. Wyckoff and his contributions to the discipline that is technical analysis
SIDEBAR: Mark 1 (1944)
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Mark 1 (1944) Conceived by Howard H. Aiken of Harvard University in 1937, the first automatic digital computer was built by International Business Machines in 1944. An automatic sequence controlled calculator, it was first used for computing ballistic d
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...SIDEBAR 1 The period of maximum sensitivity cycle is half the window length, L. Attenuation of a Simple Moving Average (SMA) for this period is 2/pi. For an equivalent Exponential Moving Average (EMA) attenuation this is expressed as:
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...SIDEBAR 1 As an aside, note that volatility must be adjusted for the price action around dividends in mutual funds. I calculate a ""price factor"" (PR) if a dividend (D) paid between quotes Qi-1, and Qi:
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...SIDEBAR 1 RUN DECISION MAKER DECISION MAKER I CAN HELP YOU MAKE DECISIONS BY CHOOSING THE BEST POSSIBILITY FOR YOU OUT OF SEVERAL ALTERNATIVES. ALL I NEED TO DO IS ORGANIZE INFORMATION YOU ALREADY HAVE. WHICH OF THESE BEST DESCRIBES THE DECISION YOU
SIDEBAR: Univac 1 (1951)
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Univac 1 (1951) Delivered to the government in 1951 to help with the census, it cut human work hours from 200,000 to 28,000. On October 3, 1963, the computer was retired after 73,000 hours of operation and is now on display at the Smithsonian Institutio
Shorting Stocks-Part 1
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Profits can be accumulated while prices of securities are heading lower.
Succeeding with options part 1 by Leonard Yates
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Succeeding with options part 1 by Leonard Yates An option is one of the most flexible forms of contractual agreements ever developed. Options may be used to take advantage of almost any type of market scenario one can imagine. There are option strategie
Swing Prediction (Part 1 of III)
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Wouldn't it be nice to have an idea when-- that is the date-- the next swing might change direction? Some ideas might prove more profitable than others.
System Design Software, Part 1
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In this first part of an occasional series, Harris takes a casual look at Adaptrade Builder and AmiBroker software.
Technical Tools For Day Traders, Part 1
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here are a few techniques that I have found to be consistently helpful in capturing intraday profits. Part 1 will discuss oscillator divergence/momentum confirmation.
The Compare Price Momentum Oscillator (CPMO), Part 1
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here is a way you can compare at a glance the momentum of two different market indexes or securities in the same chart. It could also be used to help generate trading signals. In this first part of a three-part series, we'll look at comparing index momen
The Compulsive Trader Part 1 by Van K Tharp, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Compulsive Trader Part 1 by Van K Tharp, Ph.D. Compulsiveness is perhaps the most serious of all trading problems. I have evaluated psychological profiles on thousands of commodity and option traders. Despite the fact that about 50% of the traders I
The Edge In Chart Patterns, Part 1
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When you see a chart pattern forming, most likely, others will see it too. What gives you an edge when you trade a chart pattern? This two-part article will help answer that question
The Ins & Outs Of Moving Averages Part 1
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...They are ubiquitous on price charts and an integral part of technical analysis. Do you know everything you should about using them?
The MIDAS Touch, Part 1 by Andrew Coles, PhD
The Missing Link, Part 1
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The relationship between time and price has a direct influence on trading profitability. Here's a look at how you can gain an insight by looking at the euro and the Romanian leu.
The Options Risk Curve Part 1
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...If you've tried to make profits out of option decay, you may have found yourself waiting patiently to eek out even a bit of profit. Find out what some pros have to say about this
The Repeated Median Velocity Strategy, Part 1
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...It sounds complicated, but it's actually simple. In this first part of a two-part series, find out how to use this strategy to place buy & sell orders as well as the best way to test the strategy.
The V-Trade Part 1: Five Basic Trading Rules
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Technical analysis, money management, and trading rules--these are the three basic components to a technically based trading system. But even if you've got these three components down, you still need to stay alert to
The Weekly Options, Part 1
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...They were introduced in 2005 and have gained a strong following. How do you trade them? In this first of two parts, see how one trader uses these options.
Trading Eurodollar One-Minute Bar Charts, Part 1
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How do you determine when a price trend starts? The velocity of price movement can have something to do with it. Here's one way you can measure volatility.
Trading Forex: Understanding The Basics, Part 1
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In this first part of a new series on foreign exchange trading, you'll get an overview of the basics of trading currencies.
Trading GLD In The Age Of Zero Commission Part 1
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Come follow along on a quest to discover profitable trading rules you can use, based on a few technical indicators. In this two-article series focusing on two different markets, we'll conceptualize some strategies and technical trading rules, test them,
Trading Leveraged QQQ ETFs Part 1: QLD
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...You may be able to outperform the market with favorable reward-to-risk measures by including a leveraged QQQ ETF in your portfolio allocation with a timing factor. Here is a study with trading rules and results
Trading SPY 30-Minute Bars With SAR Part 1
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...We've all heard of the parabolic SAR indicator and know how to use it. Here's a different perspective that looks at it in terms of shape, slope, and speed
Trading The MACD Histogram, Part 1
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...As good as the moving average convergence/ divergence is, adding the histogram might make it even better.
Trading Trendline Breaks (Part 1) by Sylvain Vervoort
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Trendline Breaks (Part 1) by Sylvain Vervoot One of the best trading methods in technical analysis is the application of trendline breaks. Find out why. am convinced that one of the best trading methods using technical analysis is the app
Understanding Level II quotes - Part 1
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...One of the most powerful trading tools for the active trader is the Level II screen.
Understanding The Yield Curve, Part 1
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In this two-part series, you'll get a comprehensive review of yield curve analysis and how it can be applied to making decisions in the stock market. In this first part, we'll look at basic theory as well as some guidelines for how discretionary investor
Updata, part 1
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Updata, a UK-based company, has a wide range of analysis features. To give you an idea of how extensive this software is, consider there are 457 prebuilt custom indicators in addition to several dozen standard indicators, and 229 prebuilt trading strateg
VIDYA and the Nasdaq (Part 1)
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...VIDYA, the variable index dynamic average, provides the means to dynamically change the period of an exponential moving average. Its application to the Nasdaq provides some interesting insight to Nasdaq behavior.
Volume analysis Part 1 by John C. Lawlor
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Volume analysis Part 1 by John C. Lawlor Historically, volume has had only modest use as a technical analysis factor, even though volume, or the magnitude of volume, is a most respected market force. Every day, the 15 most active stocks are listed--a sub
What I Learned When I Looked At Minute-By-Minute Stock Option Data, Part 1
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Coming up with new option strategies to trade isn't easy. Sometimes, looking at things in a new way gives you a fresh perspective
When Backtests Meet Reality, Part 1
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Before you put real money on the line with a trading strategy, you will want to test the strategy to find out if it has a good chance of being profitable going forward. However, there are some important pitfalls to avoid when you go to design a backtest
Will AI Ever Be Useful For Technical Analysis? Part 1: It's Not A Given
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Are AI tools giving traders improvements in alpha and beta, and if not, why not
Working Money: Counting Elliott Waves, Part 1 by Rudy Teseo
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Counting Elliott Waves, Part 1 by Rudy Teseo In this four-part tutorial you'll learn about the theory and applications of the Elliott wave. In part I, you'll learn about projections. This tutorial, while by no means a definitive text on Elliott wave (E
Writing Covered Calls Part 1: Examining Your Choices
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In the last series, we provided an introduction to trading options and what this type of instrument is all about. Here, we dive into strategies for option trading by explaining a straightforward, lower-risk type of option trade you can make: the covered
Wyckoff Part 1: Defining A Trend
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Richard D. Wyckoff outlined the necessity for defining the market trend in his classic stock analysis method first published in the early 1930s. Seventy years later, this remains an important concept for traders in a variety of financial markets.
eSignal 11 (Part 1)
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...After having used eSignal for several years, my first reaction to the latest release, eSignal 11, was how modern the user interface was.
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