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DownloadA Caffiene Jolt With Green Mountain Coffee
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Considering buying shares in Keurig Green Mountain Coffee? The monthly chart suggests this isn't a good time to buy but the weekly and daily chart suggest that it is a good time to buy. Which chart do you follow?
A Candlestick Strategy With Soldiers And Crows
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Traders want to get in earlier and have more frequent trading opportunities. Here are two patterns that can point you in that direction
A Cup Of Security With Vasco Data
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A cup is in the making.
A Cup With A Dividend
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When times are tough, look to buy a stock that pays a dividend.
A Cup With Handle Breakout For Fairchild
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Fairchild Semiconductor is showing good relative strength, and a recent breakout points to higher prices in the coming weeks.
A Cup With Handle Consolidation In Networking Stocks
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Does an October-December consolidation in the Amex Networking Index suggest more upside once a January pullback runs its course?
A Cup With Handle For Treasury Notes
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A classic chart pattern suggests bullish times for bonds.
A Cup With Handle In Hogs
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Are hogs headed higher? This cup with handle patterns seems to suggest so.
A Cup With Handle In Transports
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...As crude oil breaks down, the consolidation in the Dow Jones transports hints at a move higher.
A New Buy Near A New High With NVLS
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Shares of Novellus have risen nearly 88% since October 4, 2011, and with a new long buy signal waiting to be triggered, the stock may see $50 sooner rather than later.
A Potential Cup With Handle Pattern For Brigham Exploration?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Brigham Exploration looks to be forming a cup with handle pattern but there are factors to consider when trying to confirm this.
A Problem With Sentiment
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...While we like to believe the crowd is always wrong, they are only wrong at extremes in the market, and these can usually only be identified in hindsight.
A Road Trip With Options Supertraders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's a way to trade options that allows you to spend less time managing the trade and more time to go on road trips
A Seasonal Strategy With Leveraged ETFs
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Halloween indicator, also known as ""Sell in May and go away,"" is a well-known seasonal strategy that investors apply to the financial markets. But it comes with its share of risk. Here is how you can use this seasonal strategy with a twist using le
A Session With Alex Elder by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A Session With Alex Elder by Thom Hartle Alexander Elder, director of the Financial Trading Seminars, is no newcomer to technical analysis nor to trading. Technical Editor John Sweeney and Editor Thom Hartle interviewed Elder on July 18 of last year in
A Simple Rotation Strategy With Sector ETFs
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here is a portfolio rebalancing technique that's simple enough for an individual trader to perform on a monthly basis
A trader's tale: Post-crash profits with fast action by Patrick D. Bosold
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A trader's tale: Post-crash profits with fast action by Patrick D. Bosold For most people, commodity trading means getting on an adrenalin high at the start of the trading day, scrutinizing the markets intensely, making bold buy or sell decisions under
AVTR: A REIT With Potential
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...If the time to buy is when there's blood in the streets, REITs are worth looking for a splash or two.
Adams Golf Starts The Year With Strong Gains
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...This company gained about 20% in the first 10 trading days of 2012 and could be a buy even after that gain.
Adding The Human Element To Neural Nets by Jeffrey Owen Katz, Ph.D. with Donna L. McCormick
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Adding The Human Element To Neural Nets by Jeffrey Owen Katz, Ph.D., with Donna L. McCormick Is it possible to train a neural network to ""see"" the way you and I do? These Contributing Writers walk you through their research in selecting chart-based tr
Adjusting A Long Call With The Synthetic Straddle by Chris Tyler
Adjusting Option Trades With Bill Ladd by John Sarkett
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Adjusting Option Trades With Bill Ladd by John Sarkett Bill Ladd, a full-time, independent option trader, spent 20-some years in the pharmaceutical industry (Burroughs Wellcome, which became Glaxo Smith/Kline) as a certified internal auditor and a certi
After-Hours Trading with Victoria Wang
American Express Flirts With Double Top Support
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...American Express (AXP) formed a double top in 2006, but support is refusing to go quietly and the pattern has yet to be confirmed.
An Interview With Fund Manager Louis Navellier
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...With more than 15 years of experience behind him, Louis Navellier, founder and president of Navellier & Associates, Navellier Management, and editor of MPT Review is a well-known figure in the investment world. He makes frequent appearances on Wall $
An Intraday Cup With Handle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A test of the successful breakout from this intraday cup with handle bottom in the e-mini S&P 500 sets the stage for continued gains.
Analyze Volume With S&P 500 Sectors
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When the Fed meets, the world watches. Does action in the various S&P 500 sectors show any indication of what may happen based on their supply & demand areas? Let's find out
Analyzing A Stock With Fundamentals
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...What do the fundamentals say about stocks?
Analyzing indicators with the cells method by David R. Aronson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Analyzing indicators with the cells method by David R. Aronson Does a given technical indicator have predictive value or not? This fundamental question must be answered before using it to forecast market trends or as input to trading decisions. An intui
Another Bearish Omen With AUS/USD?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Markets have been giving mixed signals, but there have been some signs that a correction may be in the offing. Here is another.
Another Chance With Breakaway Gaps by John Crane
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Another Chance With Breakaway Gaps by John Crane Suppose you've been monitoring the market for weeks, faithfully updating your daily charts and studying your favorite indicators. The criteria for your trade are met and, at long last, a buy signal is gen
Apple Stock Pushed Higher With News Of Steve Jobs' Health
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Apple Inc. is a stock to watch with news about Steve Jobs' health.
Applied Technical Analysis Part 4: Continuing With Advanced Technical Analysis
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here, we build on the previous parts and finish this series by continuing the demonstration of some advanced market analysis techniques and how they could help you to read price evolution
Are You Betting With The Chips?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Looking at the daily, weekly and monthly charts for Intel Corporation [INTC] may provide some clues for future moves within the computer chip sector.
Are you piloting your trading with safety? by Ana Maria Wilson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Are you piloting your trading with safety? by Ana Maria Wilson As a full-time trader of highly speculative stock and commodity options armed with a basically sound system, I'm always looking for ways to strengthen the weakest link in my trading program:
As Gold Stocks Peak, A Possible Short Play With UXG
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Volume is an oft-overlooked technical tool, one that traders can use to help anticipate turns in any market.
Augmenting Financial Analysis With Artificial Intelligence
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Need a little demystification on how AI is being applied to the financial field? Here's a quick look at some features of AI and its transformative potential for collaboration between humans and machines in market analysis
Aussie Dollar Index Firms With Divergence
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Australian Dollar Index declined throughout 2005 but finally reached support. Early strength in 2006 could lead to a trend reversal.
Back to Basics With Quantitative Analysis by Anthony J. Macek
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Back to Basics With Quantitative Analysis by Anthony J. Macek Ever notice how we seem to want to do things the hard way? Anthony Macek, publisher of the ""Just the Facts"" newsletter, has, and he's proposed a solution to simplify our lives using quantit
Ballard Power Systems Struggles With Bottom
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Over the last four months this alternative energy play has tested a bottom three times. Is this third time charmed?
Base-Building with Lowes
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Home improvement store Lowes built the base and provided the breakout. Will a brief correction pave the way to new highs?
Battling The Futures With Larry Levin
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Larry Levin is president and founder of Trading Advantage, a firm specializing in trading education. Trading Advantage has made it its mission to teach students to trade online. We spoke with him about what it takes to start trading futures.
Beat The Dow With The Dogs Of The Dow
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Want to know how you can beat one of the broader market indexes? Here's a strategy you can follow.
Beat The Markets With McNeel And Lynch
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Two viewpoints, both resulting in spectacular gains.
Beat the Market with Cyclicals by Paul and Carole Huebotter
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...""The new Dow strategy"" outlined here is a method to pick a 10-stock portfolio to outperform both the Dow 30 and the well-known Dow dividend strategy. Take a look. by Paul and Carole Huebotter Economists maintain that the markets are too efficient for
Beat the market with no-load mutual funds by Gary Zin, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Beat the market with no-load mutual funds by Gary Zin, Ph.D. In the past, I have invested in mutual funds based on their long-term performance, typically requiring that a fund's five-year history exceed the compounded return of Standard & Poor's 500-sto
Beating The Market With An Expert Trading System by Jerry Felsen
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Beating The Market With An Expert Trading System by Jerry Felsen A mathematically provable trading system (MPTS) can be defined as a trading method for which superior expected performance can be proved scientifically. I measure system performance by mea
Better Returns With Single-Stock Futures by Jeffrey P. Seyler
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Better Returns With Single-Stock Futures by Jeffrey P. Seyler What exactly are they, and how can we use them to our advantage? Launched on November 8, 2002, security futures products have been watched by many but traded by few. The reasons for this var
Better Trade Management With Candlesticks by Tracy Knudsen, CMT
Better Trading With Risk Control by Daryl Guppy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Better Trading With Risk Control by Daryl Guppy How do you improve your trading results? Risk management, of course. Understanding how the tools of technical analysis work and how they are applied makes a big difference to your initial trading results.
Betting On Crude Oil, With Favorable Odds
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...On December 5, 2008, front-month crude oil closed below $41, the lowest price in nearly four and a half years. Does the bear market in oil have more downside, or is selling an out-of-the-money put a relatively safe bet?
Betting On Strength With ALXN
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using a combination of fundamental and technical factors, you can spot tomorrow's high-flying stocks today.
Beyond The Hull With Leavitt Projections
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...They're predictive and have no lag. What are these indicators and where can you find them
Book Profit With Addax Petroleum
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Addax Petroleum failed to establish support at 52-week highs. Profit booking might be a wise decision at this point.
Boost Your Forex Trading Results With John Forman by J. Gopalakrishnan & B. Faber
Boosting Rates Of Return With Noncorrelated Systems by Richard L. Weissman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Boosting Rates Of Return With Noncorrelated Systems by Richard L. Weissman Here's how adding noncorrelated assets within a trading system and combining noncorrelated systems can help your trading. Mechanical trading systems offer traders and risk manag
Bottom Fishing With Technical Indicators
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Calling a bottom is always a risky bet. But a lot of technical indicators point to higher prices ahead for Steelcase.
Bowing Out Gracefully With ACT
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...With the overall market teetering on the edge of a correction, it's better to look at what stocks to sell -- starting with stock leaders like ACT
Breaking Ranks With The Bears
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Is the market now breaking ranks with the bears? Recoveries are usually multifaceted, integrating candlestick reversal patterns, trend changes, chart patterns, indicators, moving averages, and divergences. If this is a legitimate turnaround, we should se
Bungee Jumping With Bunge Ltd.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The daily chart for this largest oilseed processor in the world shows a sizeable short-term retracement.
Butterflying Cattle With Commodity Options
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Butterfly the strategy, not the steak!
Buying Puts And Calls With PROVEST by Jay Kaeppel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Buying Puts And Calls With PROVEST by Jay Kappel The second article in this series discusses the details of the PROVEST strategy and how you can apply it to trade calls and/ or puts. As discussed in the first part of this series, several key factors sh
Buying With Bill Ackman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When a share collapses in price, should you buy it?
CFFN Moves Out With Double Strength
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When Capitol Federal Financial forms similar patterns on more than one time frame, more strength is accumulated for the next directional move.
CISCO, Filling A Gap With A Gap
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...With a hurricane in the air, the market closed for four days, and with Cisco looking like a promising buy, if and when do you go for growth or a safer investment?
Calculating Interest With the Rule of 72 by Raymond Rothschild
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Calculating Interest With the Rule of 72 by Raymond Rothschild Despite the convenience these days of computers, business calculators and the like, it is often desirable to perform some calculations either mentally or using pencil and paper. After all, o
Calendar Spreads With Dan Sheridan by John A. Sarkett
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:5 (18-26): Calendar Sprerads With Dan Sheridan by John A. Sarkett In the first part of a series based on a seminar on option strategies with Dan Sheridan, we take a look at calendar spreads. Options and seminars go together l
Call The S&P 500 With Gann And Elliott
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When W.D. Gann passed away, he left a study full of papers containing reams of research. He earnestly believed that man's emotions were ruled by planetary and mathematical influences; the planetary research is pooh-poohed by many today as crazy, bu
Capitulation Confirmed With Massive Wave Of S&P 500 Component Buy Signals
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The bear market reversal in the S&P 500 appears to have some staying power. More than 40% of this index's component stocks flashed a buy signal over the past two sessions.
Catch The Swings With Arthur Hill
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Arthur Hill, CMT, is the senior technical analyst for StockCharts.com and an independent trader. In 1997, Hill launched TDTrader.com, a website specializing in technical analysis and swing trading. It was acquired by StockCharts.com in 1999, where today
Catching The Big Moves With Harry Boxer
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Harry Boxer, founder of TheTechTrader.com, has more than 45 years of Wall Street investment and technical analysis experience, including eight years on Wall Street as chief technical analyst with three brokerage firms. Boxer is a featured guest on many f
Chaneling With Elliott Waves Part III by Rudy Teseo
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Chaneling With Elliott Waves Part III by Rudy Teseo Project coming waves with this classic technique. Now that you are familiar with some of the many Elliott wave patterns (see parts I and II), I'll discuss a means of projecting the course of a wave in
Channel Surfing With Micron
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Micron Tech is bouncing higher within a rising price channel and looks headed for the lower boundary.
Channeling With Elliott Waves
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Elliott Wave Tutorial: Part III -- Project upcoming waves with this classic technique.
Charles Schwab: Make A Buck With Chuck?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The RMO swing trade system in MetaStock 11 is going long shares of Charles Schwab -- should you also be going long for the ride?
Chart Your Stocks With Float Charts by Steve Woods
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:11 (20-27): Chart Your Stocks With Float Charts by Steve Woods Price is king. Volume is queen. Both live in the context of time. But is there a prince or prime minister who has been overlooked? Float charts may have the answer
Charting Breakouts With Convertible Point & Figure Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here, we introduce a charting technique that builds on the classic point & figure charting style and updates it to put the time dimension into play
Charting The Future With Scott Brown
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Scott Brown, president of MetaStock, has been with the company for more than 13 years, working in almost every department and playing a key role in the development of MetaStock versions 8, 9, 10, and 11. In 2013, he navigated the divestiture of MetaStock
Chasing The Trend With Indicators
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Previously, I discussed various types of moving averages. This time, I will discuss how to identify trends and apply indicators so you can trade successfully.
Chasing The Trend With Moving Averages
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...This tool is a reliable and traditional technical indicator with any number of variations.
Chatting With Marc Chaikin by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Chatting With Marc Chaikin - by Thom Hartle Veteran technician Marc Chaikin, senior vice president of Instinet Corp., got started in the financial industry with most fortuitous timing: He was issued his stockbroker's license the very day that the bear m
Christmas Comes Early With The DJIA by John L. Momsen
Clues To Market Direction With The S&P 500 Premium by Jean-Olivier Fraisse, CFA
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Clues To Market Direction With The S&P 500 Premium by Jean-Olivier Fraisse, CFA Need a clue to short-term market direction? The premium between the Standard & Poor's 500 futures and the corresponding cash index may help, provided you understand how it i
Colgate's Cup With Handle Bottom
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A deep MACDH trough and a gap up above the 50-day EMA suggest higher prices ahead for the stock of this consumer noncyclical goods company.
Combining Andrews With Elliott Wave High by Ron Jaenisch
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Combining Andrews With Elliott Wave High by Ron Jaenisch The first concept that a student of the Elliott wave theory learns is about the five-wave structure of a move. The first concept that a student of the Andrews method learns is that prices make the
Combining Bollinger Bands With Candlesticks
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...It's quintessential technical analysis. Here's a simple strategy to trade with as well as an easy model for how to backtest it, putting together these two popular components of charting
Combining Guppy Averages With A Winning Trading System
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Filtering your trading system's output with Guppy moving averages can help keep you on the right side of most major market moves.
Combining P/E Ratio With Earnings Growth Rates by Pamela H. Brown and William G.S. Brown
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Combining P/E Ratio With Earnings Growth Rates by Pamela H. Brown and William G.S. Brown The price/earnings (P/E) ratio is widely used in fundamental stock analysis. It serves to normalize earnings so that stocks with widely varying earnings may be comp
Combining Patterns with Indicators by William Q. Smith
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Combining a technical indicator with another technical method can be the start of a viable trading system. Here's how to combine a technical indicator with a chart pattern to form one. Pattern recognition and trend-following can be combined to form a u
Combining Persistence With Strength
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's a switching technique that combines a stock's persistence and ranking strength to offer enhanced returns compared to buy & hold investing
Combining RSI with RSI by Peter Konne
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Optimization and stop-losses can help you minimize risks and give you better returns. ou would like to be long in a market that's trending up, but what about when the trend turns down? Do you exit and just watch from the sidelines, or do you try
Comcast Firms With Bullish Reversal Pattern
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...After a normal correction, Comcast shows signs of firming with a bullish reversal pattern taking shape.
Come Together With Starbucks
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When Starbucks enters the political fray with the words "Come together," then the share should be looked at.
Communication with Technical Analysis
Compare Option Strikes With This by Tim Zurick
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Compare Option Strikes With This by Tim Zurick How do you compare options with different strikes, margin requirements, and expiration dates? Here's a tool that will help you make that decision. More bang per buck: Many businessmen will tell you that th
Comparing The CRB With Bonds by Jim Bianco, C.M.T.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Comparing The CRB With Bonds by Jim Bianco, C.M.T. The Commodity Research Bureau (CRB) price index and the bond market have frequently been compared in the past because of their interrelated natures. The CRB is considered to be an indicator of inflation
Congestion Phase Analysis With Candlesticks by Holliston Hill Hurd
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...You can trade markets by combining congestion phase analysis with candlestick charting patterns. This technique, a form of pattern recognition, can be used to profit from stocks, commodities and futures. Holliston Hill Hurd explains. Three steps are nec
Conquering Your Trading Fears With Corey Rosenbloom
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Corey Rosenbloom, Cm t, is the founder of www.afraidtotrade.com, a website dedicated to helping traders overcome their trading fears through education, and is the author of The Complete Trading Course (John Wiley & Sons, 2011), which outlines how to
Continuation Triangles With Fibonacci Targets
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Triangles should continue the trend in motion.
Convincing Break Higher With USO
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...It's been a long, slow grind higher for USO, but the recent weekly breakout looks to be very convincing.
Cooking Up Trades With Adam Grimes
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Adam Grimes has two decades of experience in the industry as a trader, analyst and system developer. Grimes started trading in agricultural commodities and futures. He then moved to currency futures, stock index futures, and individual stocks. His tradin
Create Your Trading System With John Wang by J. Gopalakrishnan and B. Faber
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Create Your Trading System With John Wang by J. Gopalakrishnan and B. Faber John Wang received his bachelor's degree in chemical physics from University of Sciences and Technologies of China (Ustc), his master's degree in quantum chemistry from Zhongsha
Creating Indicators With Physics by John F. Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Creating Indicators With Physics by John F. Ehlers Do we limit words or do words limit us? As Stocks & Commodities contributor John Ehlers opines, we can't really describe market activity with terms now used in the technical trading field. He suggests a
Creating More Robust Trading Strategies With The FM Demodulator
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market data is made up of cyclical components. Cycles contain both signals and noise. It's a concept that underpins market timing and can be crucial to success. Last month we introduced the concept of using the AM (amplitude modulation) and FM (frequency
Creating charts with Lotus by John O'Donahue
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Creating charts with Lotus by John O'Donahue Those who have used a personal computer for technical analysis of the markets probably are familiar with Lotus 1-2-3, and recognize what a powerful tool it can be. It is particularly good for evaluating new i
Creative System Design With Roman Bogomazov
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Where better to learn technical analysis and trading than a university with courses specializing in the subject? Roman Bogomazov is a trader and an educator, an adjunct professor at Golden Gate University (GGU) in San Francisco, where he coordinates tech
Cross-Market Evaluations With Normalized Average True Range by John Forman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:5 (60-63): Cross-Market Evaluations With Normalized Average True Range by John Forman This technique can be useful to longer-term traders for comparing tradables. Like Bollinger Bands, the average true range (ATR) indicator f
Crossover Trading: Arbitraging The Physical With The Stock
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Arbitrage trading isn't limited to stock pairs or interest rate markets. You can also pair equities with futures.How do you find good candidates for an arbitrage trade? Here are several methods you can use to evaluate a potential pairing
Cup (Of Sugar) With Handle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The year-to-date consolidation in sugar futures could be hinting at more historic highs to come.
Cup With Handle Becomes Diamond
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A failed breakout sets up a diamond consolidation in the Dow transports.
Cup With Handle Bottoms
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Both the Gold Bugs Index and Philly Gold and Silver suggest that gold stocks are on their way up.
Cup With Handle On Grant Prideco
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The formation of a cup with handle pattern indicates that the price of this oil-drilling pipes manufacturer will probably continue to rise.
Currency Investment With Tactical Trading by John Beatty
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Currency Investment With Tactical Trading by John Beatty Foreign currency deposit accounts -- for German Deutschemarks, British pounds and so forth--are not routinely available in the cities and towns of the United States. In fact, before January 1989, fe
Cyclical analysis of stock prices with astrology by Robert S. Kimball
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Cyclical analysis of stock prices with astrology by Robert S. Kimball Over the past four years I have participated in a research project that has sought to test the validity of a rather controversial and unorthodox approach to cyclical analysis. The pri
Dancin' With Mr. D(ollar)
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Support at the 50-week EMA and successive closes above the 10-week EMA point to higher prices in the greenback.
Day Trading With Stochastics by John F. Kepka
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Day Trading With Stochastics by John F. Kepka I have been using the Stochastics oscillator ""K"" and ""%D"" for well over a year (RE: May and Sep 1984 issues of Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities magazine). I use Stochastics, (in conjunction wit
Daytrading The E-Mini With Point & Figure by Eugene Steele
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Daytrading The E-Mini With Point & Figure by Eugene Steele Here's a look at how you can trade the e-mini with a classic charting technique. Point & figure charting has been largely ignored as a tool for daytrading, but it is actually one of the most po
Daytrading With Market Value by Donald L. Jones
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:5 (16-23): Daytrading With Market Value by Donald L. Jones Markets are complex, self-regulating, and driven by feedback. The message is clear: Decipher the feedback to understand your market. How can you understand the market
Daytrading With Night Volume
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Can the night session trading volume give you a hint as to what the market will do when the market opens? Here's one perspective
Daytrading With On-Balance Volume by D.W. Davies
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Daytrading With On-Balance Volume by D.W. Davies Where is the smart money going? Here's how you can find out. On-balance volume (OBV) is a momentum indicator that relates price change to volume. It has proven itself over and over again as an important
Daytrading With The NYSE Tick Indicator
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Studying the movements on the tick indicator will help you understand what is really going on.
Daytrading With Volatility by Mark Hodge
Dealing with Change by Adrienne Laris Toghraie
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Dealing with Change by Adrienne Laris Toghraie Change is a part of life, and for a trader, it can be a problem or an opportunity. Here's how a trader can make sure it's not a problem. In recent times, I have received countless calls from floor traders
Dealing with conflict Part 2 by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Dealing with conflict Part 2 by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D. ""I have an elaborate computer system, on-line market quotes direct from the major exchanges, and a program that gives me distinct buy-sell signals. I know that if I followed those signals, I'd make mo
Dealing with conflict by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Dealing with conflict by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D. Emotional conflict is one of the most significant problems that most traders (or people) have to deal with in their lives. Yet explaining what it is or how it occurs is not easy. What follows is an interview
Defining Stock Trends With The RSI
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The relative strength index (RSI) is considered an indicator to apply when markets are range-bound. But here's one way you can use the RSI to identify intermediate- and long-term trends in the equity markets.
Determining Who Has Control With Price
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Price can be as crazy, but if you know how to determine who has control of price, you'll know what direction to trade in despite volatile price action.
Developing A Model With Auction Market Theory by Donald L. Jones
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Developing A Model With Auction Market Theory by Donald L. Jones Here's an intraday trading model that uses auction market theory. A tenet of auction market theory is the unpredictability of the markets. An auction market model is built from market kno
Developing Discipline With Daily Debriefing by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:1 (50-53): Developing Discipline With Daily Debriefing by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D. It is easy to design a system that will produce annual returns of 100% or more. Trading the system so you will get those returns is not so easy. Her
Developing Systems With a Rule-Based Approach by Jeffrey Owen Katz
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Developing Systems With a Rule-Based Approach by Jeffrey Owen Katz This month, Katz discusses a trading system he developed using a rule-based approach. Previously, I explored the development of simple rule-based trading systems. Specifically, I looke
Digene's Cup With Handle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A correction from Digene's April rally looks to have helped complete a bullish cup with handle in DIGE.
Discovering Market Tops With Fibonacci Extensions
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...See how major peaks could be found months, or years, in advance.
Doing The Wave With Jeffrey Kennedy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Jeffrey Kennedy is chief commodity analyst at Elliott Wave International (EWI). With more than 20 years of experience as an analyst and trader, he writes and edits Futures Junctures, a premier forecasting package that focuses on Elliott wave analysis of
Double Double With JP Morgan Chase
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...JP Morgan Chase has shown a double bottom. Is it a buy?
Downside Protection With Double-Digit Returns by John Manley
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Downside Protection With Double-Digit Returns by John Manley This strategy has potential for double-digit returns with a large built-in hedge. Current market conditions have set up a unique opportunity to build a conservative portfolio that will profit
Empowering Traders With The Russell 2000 by Gail Mercer
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Ever thought of trading the Russell 2000? Here's how retail traders could benefit from trading this index. New traders are drawn to the emini Standard & Poor's 500 like bees to honey. Go into any live trading room and chances are that the mo
End Of Day Trading With Double Bottoms
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...On February 19, Traders.com published my article on the trading strategy "Buying At The Bottom." Below is a chart showing how to trade both long and short using this strategy.
Enhanced Returns With Mutual Funds by Norman J. Brown
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Enhanced Returns With Mutual Funds by Norman J. Brown Is buy and hold the best strategy when it comes to mutual funds? Here's a mutual fund switching technique that uses multiple-fund ranking to improve returns. In my earlier articles, I showed it was
Enhancing Trading Strategies With Volatility Compressions And Explosion
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Sometimes there is a calm before the storm in the markets. You can use a popular tool in the Bollinger Band suite of tools as a trading filter to exploit the explosiveness of a market immediately after a period of price compression. Find out step-by-step
Enhancing index stock portfolios with futures by Donald L. Jones and Timothy L. Walsh
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Enhancing index stock portfolios with futures by Donald L. Jones and Timothy L. Walsh The benefits of diversification are well known: most investment managers diversify by including bonds and cash in a stock portfolio already diversified across many ind
Entering The Fibonacci Zone With Carolyn Boroden by J. Gopalakrishnan and B. Faber
Eurodollar futures using entry/exit methods combined with stops by S.L. Kille and T.P. Drinka
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Eurodollar futures using entry/exit methods combined with stops by S.L. Kille and T.P. Drinka In the May 1987 issue of this magazine, we reported the impact of money management on total net profit from simulated trading of Eurodollar futures with Relat
Evaluating Trading Systems with Statistics by J. Katz, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here, in part 1 of two, these Contributing Writers explain the steps necessary to evaluate trading system behavior with the use of statistics. by Jeffrey Owen Katz, Ph.D., and Donna L. McCormick Most systems I have seen are simply optimized by being te
Exploiting Positions With Money Management by Daryl Guppy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Exploiting Positions With Money Management Here's a trading technique for stops, including money management guidelines. ven in a bull market, there is a feeling of triumph when a trade goes our way. When this happens, the novice trader feels that gettin
Exploiting The Holidays With The Stock Market
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Yes, Virginia, there is (still) a Santa Claus rally. And more!
Exploiting The Holidays With The Stock Market
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Yes, Virginia, there is (still) a Santa Claus rally. And more!
Extend Your Analysis Capabilities With R
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...You can create a statistical bridge from your trading platform to a spreadsheet to the R programming environment to accomplish specialized tasks as well as extend your market and portfolio analysis capabilities. Here's an example of how to do it
Falling In Love, With Trends
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Regardless of what type of trader you are, trends are always a great find. When you find them, you want to hold on to them forever, but they can run away from you very quickly and easily. Don't get too attached to them. Find strong ones, take advantage o
FedEx - Fragile, Handle With Care
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...If everyone feels that FedEx (FDX) is invincible they are in for a surprise.
Fibonacci Confluence With Other Tools Provide Better Trading Signals
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Examining Fibonacci levels and confirming technical tools.
Filtering Trades With A Moving Average Slope by Adam White
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Filtering Trades With A Moving Average Slope by Adam White Moving averages are attractive because they simply and reliably execute the ""cut your losses and let your profits run"" strategy. Moving averages also have drawbacks, however, in that they disc
Finding New Energy With Ivanhoe Energy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Albert Einstein said, "Energy can not be created," so finding a new source of energy is always profitable.
Finding Support/Resistance With Point & Figure Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks, Gold, and Crude Oil could be at, or nearing, important reversal points.
Finding The Trend in FX With Tyler Yell
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Tyler Yell, CMT, is a currency analyst and trading instructor for DailyFX.com. He began trading equities in his own account after graduating from Texas State University in 2005. He came to FXCM (which owns DailyFX.com) from JPMorgan Chase, where he began
Finite Impulse Response Filter by ANTHONY WARREN, Ph.D. with JACK K. HUTSON
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Finite Impulse Response Filter by ANTHONY WARREN, Ph.D. with JACK K. HUTSON Figure 1 and 2 show a comparison of computer output using Fourier analysis Power and then Amplitude plots. It can be seen that the Power Spectrum plot, which is Amplitude square
Flowing With The Markets by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Flowing With The Markets by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D. Imagine yourself flowing down a river, only you don't know that you are. You do, however, notice that when you move in one direction, with the flow of the river, you move rapidly. When you move in another
Flying With VMWare
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...VMWare is a stock that reached the stratosphere and as the market collapsed, fell like Icarus as its wings melted. Today, it looks as if those wings have been repaired.
Focus On The Positive With Brett Steenbarger
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Brett N. Steenbarger, PhD, is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY. He works as a performance coach for traders and portfolio managers at hedge funds and other financial ins
Follow The Market Herd With Elliott Wave
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...If we can figure out what happened in the past, we can figure out what could happen in the future.
Follow The Trend With Dave Landry
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...David Landry has been actively trading the markets since the early 1990s. He is author of Dave Landry On Swing Trading, Dave Landry's 10 Best Swing Trading Patterns & Strategies, and The Layman's Guide To Trading Stocks. His books have been translated in
For Allergan, Another New High, But With A Warning
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Many times, buying a stock with a new 52-week high can be a nice, conservative way for traders and investors to make some money. But sometimes a different course of action may be warranted.
For Feeder Cattle Futures Who Have Considered Cup With Handle Patterns When The Rally Wasn't Enuf
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Has the bull market in cattle futures run out of steam? A look at the hourly chart of October feeder cattle suggests not.
Forecasting Markets With Elliott And Kondratieff
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Wave cycles may send you to the future or back to the drawing board.
Forecasting T-Bill Rates With A Neural Net by Milam Aiken
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Forecasting T-Bill Rates With A Neural Net by Milam Aiken Have you ever wondered how accurate the consensus estimates of interest rates were from the top US economists? How about how accurate those economists are in comparison with neural net technology
Forecasting With Elliott Wave Theory
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's a simple mathematical technique you can use as a forecasting tool.
Forecasting With Maximum Entropy by Jack K. Hutson and Anthony W. Warren, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Forecasting With Maximum Entropy by Jack K. Hutson and Anthony W. Warren, Ph.D. The most obvious ability that stock or commodity buyers and sellers wish for is foresight. If there was a method or technique that we could use to predict what tomorrow will
Forecasting the market with the overbought/oversold indicator by Steven B. Achelis
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Forecasting the market with the overbought/oversold indicator by Steven B. Achelis The terms ""overbought"" and ""oversold"" are often used to discuss market conditions. However, as anyone who has placed a short trade simply on the basis that the market
Forex Focus: Targeting Price And Time With Gann by Cornelius Luca
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Forex Focus: Targeting Price And Time With Gann by Cornelius Luca Want to improve your trading performance? Here's a look at some of W.D. Gann's methods. Stocks and commodities trader William Delbert Gann (1878?1955) made fortunes before, during, and a
Forex Forecasting With Vikram Murarka
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Vikram Murarka has been forecasting, trading, and hedging currencies since 1991. Beginning his career as a currency trader at Essar Group, he managed a forex exposure of $1.2 billion. In 1996 he founded Kshitij Consultancy Services, a leading forex risk
Forex Trading With ETFs
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A limited number of ETFs offer new opportunities to stock traders.
Forward With Pfizer?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A positive divergence sets shares of Pfizer up for a test of resistance at the 50-day exponential moving average.
Four Decades with Joe Ross by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Four Decades With Joe Ross by Thom Hartle Planning ahead, being mentally tough, being physically fit and knowing why you're doing what you do is very important. Don't just throw yourself at the market. You go in when it's the right time to go
Fun And Frustration With Fed Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trying to determine what is going using publicly available data can be frustrating at the best of times. But data shortfalls become glaringly obvious when the picture is rapidly unraveling like it is now.
Fun With Numbers - The Joys Of Compounding
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Ever wondered how much you would make in a year if you were able to sustain an average daily return?
Gauging Mobility with Price Distributions by Mel Widner, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...NEW TECHNIQUES Gauging Mobility With Price Distributions The price distribution function, which analyzes the distribution of prices over a lookback period, is useful for predicting price mobility. Here's a new method called the mobility oscillator that
Gerald Appel, With Systems and Forecasts by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Gerald Appel, With Systems and Forecasts by Thom Hartle Gerald Appel, a well-known name in the annals of technical analysis, not only publishes the Systems and Forecasts newsletter, he is also a money manager with $200 million under management. But he m
Get A Caffeine Lift With Starbucks
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...There is always a line at the Starbucks counter, yet the stock took a hammering. What does the stock's future hold?
Get The Big Menu With Darden Restaurants
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Shares of Darden Restaurants appear ready to move higher from a recent breakout pattern, but traders need to take a good look at other technicals before they go long.
Getting Clear With Short-Term Swings by Ron Black
Getting Smarter With Alexander Elder
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Alexander Elder is a professional trader and trading psychology expert based in New York City. He is the author of a dozen books, including "Come Into My Trading Room" and "Trading For A Living", considered classics among traders. His experience as a psy
Getting Started With Options
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Rather than shying away from the complexity of options, stick with some simple basics in exploiting them.
Getting Started With Options Using Protected Positions by J. Demkovich and E. Theriot
Getting Started With Options by Joe Demkovich and Eugene Theriot
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Getting Started With Options Rather than shying away from the complexity of options, stick with some simple basics in exploiting them. You can start paper-trading options despite their daunting reputation for complexity. If you succeed on paper, you'll
Getting To Know Options With Dan Passarelli by J. Gopalakrishnan & B. Faber
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Getting To Know Options With Dan Passarelli by J. Gopalakrishnan & B. Faber If you want to learn more about options, here's a trader who might be able to help you. Dan Passarelli is the author of the book Trading Option Greeks and president of Market Ta
Go With Gold Or Gold Stocks?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Sometimes gold outperforms gold mining stocks and sometimes it's the other way around. What might be the next moves in these different venues of the precious metals markets?
Go With The Flow
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The maxim "Trade what you see, not what you think you see" applies to all charts, but sometimes pure common sense carries greater weight.
Going Only With The RSI Indicator
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Of all the indicators I have played with, the RSI has been my favorite, yet I watch it carefully with the JM Internal Band indicator and the XTL indicator.
Going With 3-D Printing
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Hewlett Packard announced that they intend to produce a 3-D printer. Has this affected the share price of 3D Corporation?
Going With Buffett
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When Warren Buffett announces that he has bought a stock, should you buy that stock?
Going With The Indicators
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...With the market correcting heavily recently, should you keep an eye on shares that could be a solid future investment?
Gone With The Triangle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...That's the answer. The question? Where did any hope of a week-ending rally in the $OEX go?
Google With Handle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...They've taken on Yahoo, Microsoft, and now eBay ... is there anything they can't do?
Gravity Catches Up With GRVT
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Gravity Co., Ltd. (GRVY) is a developer, publisher and distributor of online games with its headquarters in South Korea. It was established in 2000 and its shares, which had been in an uptrend until a few months ago, were hit by a sudden bout of gravity,
Grow An Apple With Steve Jobs?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Back when I first wrote about Steve Jobs and Apple on October 28, 2004, I said, "Accumulate." Have I changed my mind?
Guidelines With Support And Resistance by Richard L. Evans
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Guidelines With Support And Resistance by Richard L. Evans Given the explosive growth of the financial markets, with all the derivative products and the increased complexity of trading strategies, all aided by the evolution of computers, some exotic for
Hammering Out A Potential Double Bottom With Wal-Mart
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Wal-Mart completed a powerful candlestick reversal pattern, the hammer, on September 23, 2004, which was reinforced by the fact that it marked a rejection of yearly lows at 51.08 from August 9.
Hanging Out With The Junkies
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Assuming that some bond and equities markets are highly correlated and that bonds affect the equities markets, could we extract information from junk bond markets in such a way as to manage our exposure and protect and increase our trading capital in vol
Hedging With Spreads by Bradley J. Horn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Hedging With Spreads by Bradley J. Horn A risk manager may prefer the flexibility and limited risk of a call or put strategy. The trader, however, may feel that the premium costs associated with outright option positions are too expensive. These cash fl
High-Flier Boeing Stalls With Exhaustion Gap
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Boeing shares have been on a bullish tear, but the appearance of a new gap after a powerful bullish swing move suggests that the stock is heading for a correction.
High-Frequency Trading With Sang Lee
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Sang Lee is a cofounder of Aite Group and serves as managing partner. Lee, whose expertise lies in the securities and investments vertical growth, has advised global financial institutions, software/hardware vendors, and professional services firms in se
Home Depot Bearish Divergence With Price
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Shares of Home Depot are up by more than 100% since August 2012, but money flow analysis is warning of a substantial correction ahead.
How To Enter Trades With Gaps And Laps
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When the unexpected happens, you need a backup plan so you don't miss a runaway move.
How To Get In With The Trend ... by Bryan Strain
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How To Get In With The Trend And Out At The End by Bryan Strain Need a simple trend-following system to get you right with the market? Take a look at this. ""Good indicators must have an easily explainable, fundamental reason for working,"" trader and
How To Trade With Inverse Trendlines
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Price action never presents itself in the plain-vanilla step-by-step format like traders are taught, which is why you need to use tools that are outside the box.
How To Use Elliott Wave Theory With Individual Stocks
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Tesla and Apple have clear Elliott Wave patterns.
How To Use Stock Options With Momentum Stocks For Enhanced Profits
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Momentum stocks tend to be leaders in the stock market, taking it to higher highs while also being favored stocks by traders and investors alike. However, using stock options, you can enhance your profits with momentum stocks by following a few guideline
Identify The Start Of A Trend With DMI
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Improve on certain directional movement index signals such as identifying the start of a trending move and picking market tops and bottoms.
Identifying And Timing With The Special K, Part 2 by Martin J. Pring
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 27:01 (28-35): Identifying And Timing With The Special K, Part 2 by Martin J. Pring In part 1, you were introduced to the Special K indicator and its application on the weekly and daily charts. In part 2, we will show you how Spe
Identifying The Cup (With Or Without The Handle) by Giorgos Siligardos, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:2 (36-42): Identifying The Cup (With Or Without The Handle) by Giorgos Siligardos, Ph.D. Here's a mechanical identification formula for the rounding bottom, one of the most rewarding formations for traders. The rounding botto
Identifying Trades With The Option Premium Ratio by Christopher Cadbury
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Identifying Trades With The Option Premium Ratio by Christopher Cadbury What is the option premium ratio? Simply, the option premium ratio is the ratio of price premiums on puts relative to price premiums on calls. It covers all listed equity options.
Identifying Trends With The KST Indicator by Martin J. Pring
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Identifying Trends With The KST Indicator by Martin J. Pring The direction of price is influenced by different time cycles. Important market turns occur when a number of these cycles are changing direction. The KST indicator is an oscillator designed to
Identifying Trends with Volume Analysis by Stephen J. Klinger, CMT
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's a new twist on volume analysis, with a volume-based indicator for identifying meaningful trends. Technicians recognize the importance of volume analysis and its application to price movement as requisite to any serious examination of stocks and m
Improve Timing With On-Balance Volume
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The on-balance volume (OBV) indicator provides an effective means for measuring cumulative volume as it relates to price.
Improve Your System With The Profitability Rule by Michael Harris
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Improve Your System With The Profitability Rule by Michael Harris What are the capabilities and limitations of your trading system or investment strategy? You can ensure your system or strategy has a high probability of meeting your profit objectives by
Improve Your Trading System With Speed by Gomu Vetrivel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:11 (28): Improve Your Trading System With Speed by Gomu Vetrivel Constantly improving your trading system is the best way to improve the performance of your trading system. But what's speed got to do with it? Speed has a lot
Improving Stock Hedging With Industry Beta
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Industry-specific news affects stock prices. Therefore, adding the industry beta to the classical hedging model based on the market beta can considerably improve the efficiency of stock hedging. We'll explain how
Improving The 50/200 SMA With A Simple Crossover System
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...You shouldn't always assume that the default settings for your indicators are necessarily the best ones to use for all timeframes. With a little careful modification, your indicators could be greatly improved. Here is some guidance (and inspiration) to t
Improving The Win-Loss Ratio With The Relative Strength Index by Thomas Bulkowski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Improving The Win-Loss Ratio With The Relative Strength Index by Thomas Bulkowski Here's a refresher on the relative strength index, and how to improve your win-loss ratio. Technical analysts can be divided into two basic camps -- those who rely on cha
Income-Generating Strategies With Brad Reinard
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Brad Reinard, who is editor-in-chief of Monthly Cash Thru Options LLC, has extensive experience in directional and nondirectional option trading strategies.
Increasing OBV reliability with stock index futures by Gerald Appel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Increasing OBV reliability with stock index futures by Gerald Appel Traders have used volume pattern recognition techniques in an attempt to forecast price movement probably for as long as records regarding trading volume have been maintained. As a gen
Increasing Return With Covered Calls by Joe Demkovich and Eugene Theriot
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Increasing Return With Covered Calls by Joe Demkovich and Eugene Theriot Worried about how exposed you are to price fluctuation in your options position? Don't be. Here's how you can retain flexibility by using covered-call options. One of the most co
Index Rotation With Exchange-Traded Funds by David Vomund
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:1 (36-38, 45): Index Rotation With Exchange-Traded Funds by David Vomund Which will perform best, large-cap stocks or small-cap stocks? Will value stocks outperform growth stocks or will growth outperform value? If you watch
Industrials SPDR Leads With A Breakout
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...After a 12-month trading range, the industrials SPDR is finally breaking free, pointing to higher prices.
Intermarket Analysis With Canadian Stocks And Gold
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Canadian benchmark index is showing signs of weakness, and potential weakness for gold.
Intermarket Analysis With Dollar And Bonds
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The US dollar has been in an uptrend this year. Bond and currency charts support the theory that it may go even higher.
Internet HOLDRS Testing Support With Two Harami
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Two bullish candlestick reversals show promise for the Internet HOLDRS, but these have yet to be confirmed, and momentum favors the bears.
Interpret Stock Prices With MACD
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...This popular tool to interpret stock prices is one of the staples of the technical analyst. Is it right for you?
Interpreting Stock/Index movement With RSI
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Does price follow indicator or vice versa? How long can an indicator stay at extreme levels and how do stocks react?
Interview The World Of Commodities With Carley Garner by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview The World Of Commodities With Carley Garner by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Alaron broker and analyst Carley Garner has been involved with the markets for years and is actively educating traders through web content and online seminars at CommodityT
Interview: Conversation With Tom Dorsey
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When point & figure charting (PnF) is mentioned in investment circles, Tom Dorsey's name instantly comes up. Interestingly, he first was introduced to PnF charts by a co-worker, and it changed his life's focus. Dorsey realized that the PnF approach was w
Interview: A Chat With Stefanie Kammerman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Known as "The Stock Whisperer", Stefanie Kammerman has found her passion in sharing her trading secrets with others who are passionate about trading. She runs an online trading chat room in which she teaches thousands of students how to read the tape and
Interview: A Conversation With Alon Horesh
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Alon Horesh has been an active trader in the US equity markets since 2005. He is the cofounder of Alpha Over Beta (alphaoverbeta.net), which specializes in automated trading solutions. As a software systems architect, Horesh has been involved in the deve
Interview: A Conversation With Andrea Unger
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Andrea Unger is a full-time professional trader, president of Unger Academy, and author of The Unger Method (2021). He is a four-time World Trading Champion (2008, 2009, 2010, and 2012), an honorary member of SIAT (Italian Society of Technical Analysis,
Interview: A Conversation With Ari Wald, CFA, CMT
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Ari H. Wald is managing director and head of technical analysis with Oppenheimer & Co. Inc., providing market-, sector-, and stock-level research to the firm's advisors and institutional clients. Previously, he served as equity research analyst at Brown
Interview: A Conversation With Brian Shannon
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Brian Shannon, CMT, has been involved with Wall Street for over three decades. He was lead trader and director of research at MarketWise Securities from 1999 to 2006, where his focus was providing technical analysis training and education to individuals.
Interview: A Conversation With Buff Pelz Dormeier
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Buff Pelz Dormeier is a financial advisor with expertise in volume analysis. He is chief technical analyst for Kingsview Partners. As a portfolio manager for Kingsview Partners as well, he designs customized portfolio strategies for advisors and their cl
Interview: A Conversation With Charles D. Kirkpatrick II, CMT
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The 50-year investment and trading career of Charles Kirkpatrick II has encompassed trading and investing, market analysis, research & development, writing, speaking, and teaching. As president and founder of Kirkpatrick & Company, Inc., a private techni
Interview: A Conversation With Charles Kirk
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Charles E. Kirk is an independent, full-time ETF trader, and is the longtime publisher of The Kirk Report (www.kirkreport.org). The report started out as a popular blog in 2003, when Kirk began regularly posting about stocks, trading, investing, and the
Interview: A Conversation With David Lundgren
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...David Lundgren, CMT, CFA, is a 30-year investment industry veteran with a focus on technical analysis strategies, particularly momentum and trend following. He was a managing director, portfolio manager, and director of technical research at Wellington M
Interview: A Conversation With Dennis Tilley
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Dennis Tilley has traded securities for over 25 years. Since 1999, he has been Director of Research and Chief Investment Officer at Merriman Wealth Management LLC, and is currently Director of Alternative Investments. He has extensive experience in asset
Interview: A Conversation With Eric D. Wish
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Since 1990, Eric Wish, PhD, has been director of the University of Maryland College Park's Center for Substance Abuse Research (CESAR), where as a research psychologist, he has focused on drug abuse epidemiology. In addition, since 2006 he has taught cou
Interview: A Conversation With Gail Dudack
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Gail M. Dudack is a well-known and respected technical analyst, investment strategist, market commentator, and writer with a long and distinguished 50-year career on Wall Street. She is a past president of the CMT Association, and was a member of the New
Interview: A Conversation With Gregory Morris
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Gregory Morris has a 50-year investment career as a technical analyst, a prolific developer of indicators and trading systems, educational speaker, and an accomplished author of books on trend analysis, breadth, and candlesticks. Leslie Masonson intervie
Interview: A Conversation With Herb Friedman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Herb Friedman manages money using high-yield mutual funds, an investment area not often covered in this magazine. Friedman offers investment advice as an investment advisor representative of Portfolio Medics, an SEC-registered investment advisor. Quantit
Interview: A Conversation With Jack Schwager
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Jack Schwager is a trading expert and author of the bestselling Market Wizards book series as well as other notable books in the field. In his latest book, Unknown Market Wizards, he interviews eleven successful low-profile traders to examine how they ha
Interview: A Conversation With Jake Bernstein
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Jake Bernstein, president of Network Press Inc., is an internationally known commodities and futures analyst, prolific author, trader and researcher. He is chief market strategist and publisher of the Jake Bernstein's Weekly Capital Markets Report, publi
Interview: A Conversation With Jay Kaeppel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Jay Kaeppel has over 30 years of varied experience in options, equity, and futures trading as a research analyst, trader, and portfolio manager. For the past five years he has been a vice president and director of research at Alpha Investment Management.
Interview: A Conversation With Jeffrey Saut
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Jeffrey D. Saut's career on Wall Street began in 1971. He worked at a number of Wall Street firms over the years, most recently for Raymond James as chief investment strategist and managing director of the firm's equity research department, and is curren
Interview: A Conversation With John Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...After four decades of providing products, services, and education to traders through his company, MESA Software, John F. Ehlers has announced his retirement. Ehlers, a Contributing Editor to STOCKS & COMMODITIES since nearly the magazine's launch, is a p
Interview: A Conversation With Jon Wolfenbarger
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Jon Wolfenbarger, CFA, has over 25 years of professional investment experience. In addition, he spent over three decades studying investing and economics to develop an approach to investing based on technical, fundamental, economic, and long-term returns
Interview: A Conversation With Joseph W. Cotton
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Joseph Cotton first published his "Cotton's Technically Speaking" newsletter in 1986, which provides a weekly market assessment and several weekly stock picks along with charts. He has longtime experience in charting, tape reading, and technical analysis
Interview: A Conversation With Julius de Kempenaer
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Julius de Kempenaer is the founder and director of RRG Research and the developer of Relative Rotation Graphs (RRGs), which is charting technology for data visualization of sector rotation. The RRG software can be found on several major trading platforms
Interview: A Conversation With Katie Stockton
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Katie Stockton, CMT, is founder and managing partner of Fairlead Strategies, LLC (FairleadStrategies.com), an independent research firm and investment advisor founded in 2018. The firm uses technical analysis as its main tool to discern the stock market'
Interview: A Conversation With Louise Yamada
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Louise Yamada, CMT, was managing director of Louise Yamada Technical Research Advisors (LYA) for 15 years. Previously, she was managing director and head of technical research for Smith Barney. She received the CMT Association's lifetime achievement awar
Interview: A Conversation With Meb Faber
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Mebane T. Faber, CMT, CAIA, is co-founder and chief investment officer of Cambria Investment Management, which manages a dozen ETFs, with $1.9 billion in assets under management. Faber is host of The Meb Faber Show Podcast. He also created The Idea Farm
Interview: A Conversation With Ned Davis
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Ned Davis, senior investment strategist, founded Ned Davis Research (NDR) in 1980. He has been professionally involved in the stock market for over 50 years. He is the author of Being Right Or Making Money (2014). His philosophy is that an investor can c
Interview: A Conversation With Peter Eliades
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Peter Eliades has been offering stock market cycle analysis for half a century. His analysis identifies key short- and long-term market highs and lows. He published the Stock Market Cycles newsletter for 36 years. He currently offers subscribers a nightl
Interview: A Conversation With Prashant Shah
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Prashant Shah is co-founder and CEO of Definedge Solutions, which develops financial products and research. Shah has over 25 years of stock market experience that includes trading as well as developing software, technical indicators, algorithms, and trad
Interview: A Conversation With Ric Edelman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Ric Edelman founded the Digital Assets Council of Financial Professionals (DACFP) in 2018 to help financial advisors learn about the digital asset revolution encompassing blockchain, digital assets, and digital currencies. DACFP provides education, train
Interview: A Conversation With Sam Stovall
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Sam Stovall, CFP, is currently Chief Investment Strategist at CFRA Research and provides commentary and analysis on the equity markets, with particular attention paid to industry and sector seasonality and momentum. He also serves as chairman of the CFRA
Interview: A Conversation With Stan Weinstein
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stan Weinstein's 50+ year career in the markets has been the joy of his life, after that of his family. He became interested in the stock market during his college days and decided to become a subject expert. After a short stint at two brokerage firms, h
Interview: A Conversation With Sunny Harris
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Sunny Harris is a full-time trader as well as a programmer, teacher, and consultant to individual and institutional clients. Harris has been a speaker at many conferences and seminars and has made various media appearances over the years. She regularly g
Interview: A Conversation With Teresa Lo
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Teresa Lo has enjoyed a productive and successful career in the stock market over several decades. After working at brokerage firms, she began trading for herself, first in daytrading and then swing trading before eventually becoming more of an investor
Interview: A Conversation With Timothy Brackett
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Timothy Brackett, MSTA, CFTe, is a technical analyst with 35 years of financial market experience, both on the sell side and buy side. He is CEO and founder of The Market's Compass, LLC (themarketscompass.com), which offers market consulting services as
Interview: A Conversation With Urban Jaekle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Urban Jaekle has been trading stocks since 1995 and futures since 2000. He is coauthor of Trading Systems: A New Approach To System Testing And Portfolio Optimization (2019, second edition) along with Emilio Tomasini. He worked on the trading floor of th
Interview: A Conversation With Ziad Jasani
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Ziad Jasani became a self-directed investor in 2008 and experienced an intensive education by training with top portfolio managers and trading mentors. He is currently Managing Director and Head Swing Trader of the Independent Investor Institute, which h
Interview: A Discussion With David Cox
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...David Cox is a portfolio manager with CIBC Wood Gundy in Waterloo, Ontario. As part of the Cox Daggett Advisory Group at CIBC, he manages several discretionary portfolios, and he regularly conducts educational forums and workshops for clients. He manages
Interview: A Discussion with Robert W. Colby, CMT
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Robert W. Colby, CMT, has 50 years of professional experience in research, trading, and portfolio management at several large Wall Street firms. Colby is the author of The Encyclopedia Of Technical Market Indicators, which is a standard reference on indi
Interview: A Minute With Michele Mish Schneider
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...With more than 30 years of commodity trading experience, Michele "Mish" Schneider is the director of education & trading research for MarketGauge.com, where she is a market analyst, writer, and producer of daily market analysis in "Mish's Daily". She als
Interview: A Technical Narrative With Mark Newton
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Mark L. Newton has more than 25 years of buy-side and sell-side experience in financial services. Before moving to the New York City area in 2004, he traded equity options as a market maker and floor trader at the CBOE, and worked in risk management. He
Interview: Algorithmic Trading With Kevin Davey
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A professional trader and systems developer, Kevin J. Davey has been developing, analyzing, testing, and creating trading strategies for over 25 years in every futures market from the emini S&P to crude oil to corn to cocoa. He is the author of Building
Interview: All About Trading Commodities With Carley Garner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Commodities market analyst, author, and passionate trader, Carley Garner has done her part in helping commodity traders understand the notorious nature of the futures markets. She is the author of Higher Probability Commodity Trading and A Trader's First
Interview: An Insight Into Cycles With Ed Easterling
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Navigating the financial markets can be a science and an art. Ed Easterling, founder and president of Crestmont Research, is able to combine the science and art of market analysis and come up with some interesting perspectives on the markets. He shares h
Interview: An Interview With Jake Bernstein by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: An Interview With Jake Bernstein by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Cycles expert Jake Bernstein's analytical eye has seen the tide of the markets ebb and flow for more than 30 years. Many of the long-term social, political, and economic forecasts Be
Interview: Better Trading With Rob Hoffman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Rob Hoffman is founder and CEO of BecomeABetterTrader.com. Hoffman has participated in numerous international and domestic trading competitions with 19 wins and is a frequent speaker at brokerage firms and financial exchanges. He is an educator and a pas
Interview: Build Your Trading Skills: An Interview With Alex Spiroglou
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Although his interest in the markets started much earlier, Alex Spiroglou began his trading career 20 years ago and it changed his life forever. Since then he has earned a long list of accomplishments and designations including the CFTe from the Internat
Interview: Building Automated Strategies With Andrea Unger
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Andrea Unger began his career as a professional trader in 2001, first with covered warrants and then with futures and stocks, preferring a mechanical approach. A four-time winner of the World Cup Championships, he is CEO of Unger Trading S.r.l., a risk m
Interview: Building Trading Systems With Cesar Alvarez
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...With a bachelor of science in electrical engineering and computer science, and a master of science in computer science, it's no surprise that Cesar Alvarez found an affinity for developing trading systems. He has been at the forefront of stock market res
Interview: Charting Your Way With Steve Bigalow
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stephen W. Bigalow has more than 40 years of investment experience, including eight years as a stockbroker with major Wall Street firms: Kidder, Peabody & Company, Cowen And Company, and Oppenheimer & Company. This was followed by 15 years of commodity t
Interview: Classic Swing Trading With Linda Bradford Raschke by J. Gopalakrishnan and B. R. Faber
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Classic Swing Trading With Linda Bradford Raschke by J. Gopalakrishnan and B. R. Faber Hers is a name that you've probably heard or read any number of times if you've been interested in or involved in technical analysis for very long. Linda B
Interview: Connecting Up With Jared Broad
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Jared Broad is founder and CEO of QuantConnect, an open-source, cloud-based algorithmic trading platform that provides tools to its community of more than 65,000 engineers, data scientists, and quantitative analysts to design and backtest trading strateg
Interview: Conquering The Trading Demons With Gary Dayton
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Gary Dayton, Psy.D., is a trading psychologist, trader, author, and founder of TradingPsychologyEdge.com. His book Trade Mindfully outlines the mental skills needed for high-level trading performance. In his Deep Practice Program, traders learn to confro
Interview: Creating Trading Strategies With David Pieper
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...David Pieper lives in Germany and has 20 years of financial market experience. After earning the designation of Certified International Investment Analyst (CIIA), he spent several years in investment research at a major German state bank. He is currently
Interview: Daytrading With The StockBandit's Jeff White by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Daytrading With The StockBandit's Jeff White by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Jeff White, founder and chief technical analyst of TheStockBandit.com, started trading the markets in 1998 and has since gained extensive experience in both stocks and op
Interview: Daytrading With Toni Turner by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Daytrading With Toni Turner by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Toni Turner is the best-selling author of A Beginner's Guide To Day Trading Online and A Beginner's Guide To Short-Term Trading. An investor/trader with 14 years' experience, she is a pop
Interview: Designing Systems With Mike Carr
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Michael Carr, CMT, is an independent trader, researcher, and writer, with two books in publication. He has managed money professionally and is editor of the Market Technicians Association monthly newsletter. We spoke with Carr about the components that g
Interview: Developing Strategies With Kevin Davey
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Kevin J. Davey is a professional trader and systems developer. He is the author of Building Winning Algorithmic Trading Systems: A Trader's Journey From Data Mining To Monte Carlo Simulation To Live Trading. An aerospace engineer and MBA by background, D
Interview: Developing Systems With Howard Bandy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Howard Bandy has degrees in mathematics, physics, engineering, and computer science. He completed master's and doctoral studies and research in modeling, simulation, and statistics, and he performed some of the early work in artificial intelligence. He h
Interview: Finding Dynamic Moves With Robert Miner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Robert Miner published his first market report in 1985. In 1989 he published the W.D. Gann Trading Course (no longer available). His most recent book is High Probability Trading Strategies (Wiley). In the early 1990s, he was a first-place winner of a nat
Interview: Following The Trend With Perry Kaufman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Perry J. Kaufman has been involved in trading, research, and advisory functions at commercial banks, securities houses, central banks, and hedge funds since 1971. His current area of specialty is the design of trading systems, algorithms, and indexes. S&
Interview: Forecasting Simplified, With Cynthia Kase by J. Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Forecasting Simplified, With Cynthia Kase by J. Gopalakrishnan Cynthia Kase, president of Kase and Co., Cta, is considered by many to be the energy market's premier technical analyst and hedging advisor. Educated as an engineer, she worked as
Interview: In Synch With Steven Primo by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:6 (50-56): Interview: In Synch With Steven Primo by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Are you trading according to your trading personality? Steven Primo can give you a clue about that. A nearly 30-year Wall Street veteran, Primo is the
Interview: Looking At Markets With Fawad Razaqzada
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Fawad Razaqzada is a market analyst and economist who has worked for several leading brokerages as a market analyst in London, specializing in forex, commodities, stock indexes, and cryptocurrencies. He uses his knowledge of economics together with funda
Interview: Market Data Insights With John Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...John F. Ehlers is a market technician with a specialty in the study of market data and cycles, as well as using that data more effectively to develop trading strategies. In the early 1980s, around the same time this magazine was launched, he was pioneeri
Interview: Master The Markets With Gatis And Grayson Roze
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When you live and breathe the markets, it's not unusual to be a big influence on your family. Because of his deep interest in the financial markets, Gatis Roze had an impact on spreading that passion to his son Grayson. The two have a special bond becaus
Interview: Mastering Chart Analysis With Greg Schnell
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Greg Schnell, CMT, MFTA, is a senior technical analyst at StockCharts.com specializing in intermarket and commodities analysis. Based in Calgary, he is a board member of the Canadian Society of Technical Analysts (CSTA) and the chairman of the CSTA Calga
Interview: Measuring Indicators With Fred Meissner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Fred Meissner, CMT, is the founder and president of The FRED Report. His professional career spans 33 years in the investment business, including serving as president of the Market Technicians Association from 2002 to 2004. His background encompasses mar
Interview: Options Volatility With Lawrence McMillan by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Options Volatility With Lawrence McMillan by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Lawrence McMillan's interest in the options business started in 1973, when the first listed option started trading. He has written two best-selling books on options, includi
Interview: Pivot Levels With Gareth Burgess
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...After spending many years dabbling in the financial markets, Gareth Burgess decided to take the leap to becoming an independent trader. Many years of research into charts led him to come up with a trading system that he believes is similar to Jesse Liver
Interview: Put Option Selling With Lee Lowell
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...With 26 years of options trading under his belt, including trading crude oil and natural gas contracts on the floor of the NYMEX, Lee Lowell has figured out a way to conservatively trade options so traders can earn a steady income. You can find more abou
Interview: Reacting To Currencies With Abe Cofnas
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...For over two decades, Abe Cofnas has provided fundamental and technical analysis on trading strategies in currencies and intermarkets. He is the founder of Learn4x.com, which provides private coaching and seminars on currency trading, and he has been the
Interview: Risk Management With David Stendahl
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...With over 25 years of experience in trading and designing pattern and momentum-style trading systems, David Stendahl knows risk management inside-out. Stendahl is founder and president of Signal Trading Group and focuses on trading the global futures mar
Interview: Risky Positions With Keith Fitschen Of TradeSystem, Inc. by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Risky Positions With Keith Fitschen Of TradeSystem, Inc. by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Keith Fitschen has been developing technical trading systems for the futures markets for 20 years, actively trading his systems. His initial research was on t
Interview: Short Swings In Futures With Markus Heitkoetter by J. Gopalakrishnan and B. Faber
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...As founder and Ceo of Rockwell Trading, Markus Heitkoetter has shared his trading methods and ideas with more than 300,000 traders in over 196 countries. Heitkoetter started trading stocks 19 years ago, using point & figure charts from numbers pub
Interview: Sloping Upward With Tim Knight
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Timothy Knight began his career writing books at the age of 16 and to date has written two dozen books about both computers and the financial markets. He began trading in 1987 and founded Prophet Financial Systems in 1992, which started as a historical f
Interview: Speaking of Seasonals with Steve Moore of Moore Research Center by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Speaking of Seasonals with Steve Moore of Moore Research Center by Thom Hartle The concept of seasonality is certainly not new. ""To every thing there is a season,"" Ecclesiastes and, more recently, the 1960s rock group The Birds said. And of
Interview: Talking Cycles With Jeffrey Hirsch
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Jeffrey A. Hirsch is CEO of Hirsch Holdings; editor-in-chief of the Stock Trader's Almanac and Almanac Investor eNewsletter at www.stocktradersalmanac.com; research consultant at Probabilities Fund Management, LLC; and a Yahoo Finance contributor. He is
Interview: Talking Volatility With John Bollinger
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...John Bollinger is best known for creating Bollinger Bands, a feature found in most financial charting software and charting websites. His book Bollinger On Bollinger Bands has been translated into 12 languages. He's been the recipient of several industry
Interview: Technical And Market Analysis With Kyle Crystal
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Kyle Crystal, CMT, CFTe, is a portfolio manager and technical/quantitative market strategist with experience in formulating and implementing investment policy in various styles, including long-short, global macro and long-only for single managed accounts
Interview: The Keys To Success With Mark Minervini
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Mark Minervini has more than 37 years of market experience as an independent trader and is a market educator and performance coach for traders. He is the author of several books on trading as well as on how to develop a winning mindset. In 1997, he won f
Interview: The Psychology Of Trading With Claudio Demb
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Claudio Demb, MD, is a psychiatrist and has been an individual trader and investor since the 1990s. He is a frequent contributor to this magazine on the topic of trading psychology. Along with his professional practice, he has an academic appointment as
Interview: The Sell Side With James Cordier
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...James Cordier is the founder of OptionSellers.com, an investment firm specializing exclusively in selling options. He is the author of The Complete Guide To Option Selling, which was recently published in its third edition. Cordier's market commentaries
Interview: The Way Of Trading With Ian Murphy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Ian Murphy trades his own account using trend-following, swing trading, and daytrading strategies. He studied under experienced traders such as Alexander Elder and Kerry Lovvorn. Working in metal recycling early in his career led him to precious metals a
Interview: Trade Like A Warrior With Ross Cameron
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...His passion for trading is what makes him an aggressive trader, but outside of his two hours a day spent trading, Ross Cameron is realistic, patient, and practical. Cameron got exposed to trading very early in his life and, like most other traders, he ex
Interview: Trade Smart With Anne-Marie Baiynd
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Anne-Marie Baiynd, who is author of The Trading Book and president and CEO of TheTradingBook.com, focuses her successful trading system around the use of the Fibonacci and pattern recognition sequences in the market. Her rigorous trading systems combine
Interview: Trade Smart With Anne-Marie Baiynd
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...John Joseph can tell you first-hand what the difference is between academia and the real world of trading, because he had his ups and downs when he decided to make that transition from the ivory tower to the trading arena. Joseph, an experienced trader,
Interview: Trading Diverences With Ashwani Gujral by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:3 (64-71): Interview: Trading Diverences With Ashwani Gujral by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Ashwani Gujral first got acquainted with technical analysis when he was studying for his master's degree in business administration in the
Interview: Trading Forex With Jamie Saettele by J. Gopalakrishnan & B. Faber
Interview: Trading Futures With Charles LeBeau by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Trading Futures With Charles LeBeau by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Charles LeBeau, who has been trading stocks and futures for more than 40 years (20 years of which was with E.F. Hutton & Co.), is a noted author, lecturer, and system developer an
Interview: Trading Systems With Michael Bryant
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...With advanced degrees in mechanical engineering and computer science, working in the aerospace industry in the field of spacecraft design, and then in academia in the departments of ophthalmology and mechanical engineering, Michael Bryant found the marke
Interview: Trading The Currency Market With Cornelius Luca by J. Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Trading The Currency Market With Cornelius Luca by J. Gopalakrishnan Cornelius Luca is an author and international consultant in foreign exchange and technical analysis. Luca has spent his entire professional life in international finance, an
Interview: Trading The Headlines With Kathy Lien
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Kathy Lien is managing director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management and cofounder of BKForex.com. She has more than 19 years of experience in the financial markets with a specific focus on G20 currencies. Her resume includes JPMorgan Chase, FXCM (she
Interview: Trading Your Beliefs With Van K. Tharp
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:11 (68-74): Interview: Trading Your Beliefs With Van K. Tharp Often imitated, never bested, Van Tharp is an original and a pioneer in the field of trading psychology. Van Tharp has been a coach and consultant to traders since
Interview: Travel The Trading World With Tomas Nesnidal
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Travel, eat, meditate, make money, and enjoy life. That's how Tomas Nesnidal describes his life. And it's a life many traders would covet. Nesnidal has been a full-time trader for over 11 years, specializing in automated algorithmic trading strategies. A
Interview: Tuning Into The Pits With Jack Broz
Interview: Understanding Intermarket Analysis With John J. Murphy by Matt Blackman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Understanding Intermarket Analysis With John J. Murphy by Matt Blackman John Murphy has become a household name in the technical analysis community. And how could he not? He was the technical analyst for CNBC for seven years, and is the cofou
Interview: Understanding The Forex Market with P. Gotthelf by J. Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Understanding The Forex Market with P. Gotthelf by J. Gopalakrishnan Philip Gotthelf, the publisher of the COMMODEX System, the oldest daily futures trading system published, and Commodity Futures Forecast Service, which has been in existence
Interview: Using Options With Price Headley
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Price Headley was inducted into the Traders' Library Traders' Hall of Fame in 2007 and is the founder of BigTrends.com, which provides investors with specific, real-time stock and option strategies and investment education to profit from significant mark
Interview: Walking Forward With Dion Kurczek
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Dion Kurczek is a software developer and individual trader. Developing gaming for chess players in the early days of the Internet led him down the path of developing charting and backtesting programs for trading, after he discovered technical analysis an
Interview:ÊFrom Biotech To Quant With Scott Andrews
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Scott Andrews is cofounder and CEO of InvestiQuant (www.investiquant.com), a financial services company that uses robust historical market analyses and predictive analytics. Prior to InvestiQuant, he cofounded Master The Gap and SciQuest, which he took p
Intraday Trading With 100 Shares
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Since the birth of the American stock market, one pattern has always recurred: Major booms follow sharp crashes. The best-known example began on Black Thursday, October 24, 1929, the day when the market started to plummet. During the following th
Intraday swings with wave charts: The Wyckoff method of trading stocks part 12 by Jack K. Hutson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Intraday swings with wave charts: The Wyckoff method of trading stocks part 12 by Jack K. Hutson The serious follower of Wyckoff, a trader who embraces the entire scope and intricate details of this methodology, has not completed his or her analytic ars
Invest In Your Values With Socially Responsible Funds
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Want to invest, but not at the risk of a guilty conscience? If you're looking to invest in companies that follow ethical principles, try these funds.
Investing With Trends
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Does investing simply mean following obvious price trends? You may find that periodic price trends and sensible stop-loss and entry price points are far better trading guides than price forecasts.
Is PEG A Rebel, But With A Cause?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...After two weeks of solid gains, the broad markets pulled back a bit, yet some stocks still decided to go up.
Juggling Dynamite With Danielle Park by J. Gopalakrishnan and B. Faber
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Juggling Dynamite With Danielle Park by J. Gopalakrishnan and B. Faber With more than 18 years of professional consulting experience, Danielle Park is an attorney as well as a Chartered Financial Analyst (Cfa) and finance author. Park is a regular guest
Keep It Simple With Long-Term Moving Averages
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Need a basic, no-brainer means of determining the intermediate- to long-term trends of your favorite markets? Here's a handy tool you can start using today.
Keep The Health With Verisante Technology
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Vancouver Stock Exchange is renowned for listing companies of hope. Here's another.
Keeping Abreast With Perry Kaufman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Perry Kaufman began his career as a "rocket scientist." In 1971 he became involved in the futures markets and has remained there since. In addition to trading, Kaufman writes extensively on markets, strategies, and trading system research and development
Kiss & Touch With The Modified True Range
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...What is the probability of an underlying reaching a certain price prior to expiration? Find out using this new indicator.
Know The Market With Hubert Senters
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Hubert Senters is a professional daytrader and entrepreneur. He is founder of HubertSenters.com and is CEO of Never Quit Media. His philosophy is that, "If you want to achieve something in life, find someone who is good at what you want to do and learn e
Leading indicators with momentum by John Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Leading indicators with momentum by John Ehlers Newcomers to technical trading are often confused by terminology. Oscillators don't oscillate and stochastics have nothing to do with random variables. Neither does momentum describe the force required to
Learning From The Past With Silver
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Technical analysis is based on the idea that history tends to repeat itself and shows up as similar patterns in charts. Other commodities have acted like silver, and their charts may help navigate this current bubble.
Learning The Ropes With Stan Freifeld
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stan Freifeld traded options on the floor of the American Stock Exchange for his own account from 1994-2001. He was a market maker for options on several popular equities. As managing director of McMillan Analysis Corporate Services Division, he now teac
Less Stress With The JM Internal Band by Koos van der Merwe
Life In The Pits With Joyce Selander
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...It takes skill and ego and nerve to trade in the pits, and this was especially the case decades ago for one of the earliest female traders. Joyce Selander was the first woman to physically trade financial futures in the pits at the Chicago Board of Trade
Light Up Your Trading System With CandleCode Trading by Viktor Likhovidov
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Light Up Your Trading System With CandleCode Trading by Viktor Likhovidov Market sentiment has traditionally been associated with subjectivity. Here's a method that not only adds a quantitative bent to measuring market sentiment, but can also be applied
Live Cattle's Cup with Handle Bottom
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Rebounding from a seven-month downtrend, livestock futures finally start moving up.
Locating Trade Opportunities With Candlestick Analysis
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...As a testament to the power of candlestick chart analysis, you can use candlestick scanning techniques to help reveal which sectors or securities are showing the strongest signals
Locating value with auction market data by Donald L. Jones
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Locating value with auction market data by Donald L. Jones There are two fools in every market. One asks too little, one asks too much. -- Old Russian proverb The search for value in markets is a never-ending quest, since value changes with underlying
Long-Term Trading With Swiss Francs by Andre Zupans
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using Paper And Pencil (Hey, It Still Works!) Long-Term Trading With Swiss Francs Didn't you love that little cotton trade we showed you back in May 2000? Want to try again with Swiss francs? Here's your chance. by Andre Zupans In the May 2000 STOCKS
Look For Income With Hatteras Financial?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In times of uncertainty, look for income on your investment.
Looking At Futures With Volume-Weighted MACD Histogram
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Combining volume with momentum is a tool used to spot trend changes in stocks that can be applied to futures markets as well.
Looking At Momentum With TRIX by Ed Downs
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Looking At Momentum With TRIX by Ed Downs The TRIX oscillator has unique properties that make it ideal for identifying direction of trend as well as cyclical entry points. Last month, Ed Downs showed us how various oscillators can be tuned to the person
Looking At The Market With Auction Market Analysis by Tom Alexander
Looking Forward With Jeff Parent by J. Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Looking Forward With Jeff Parent by J. Gopalakrishnan Jeff Parent has been providing wealth management services to his high net worth clients since 1992. From many years of experience, he has become proficient in portfolio management techniques and has
Looking Forward With Yesterday's Action by Anthony Trongone, PhD, CTA, CFP
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Can you determine how prices will move after looking at yesterday's price action? This analysis measures price movement on the S&P 500 Sp d r exchange traded fund for the next three days.
Lulling Your Stock Nerves With Lululemon
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When the market is depressing you, calm your mind by mediating with yoga ... and yoga clothes.
MSFT Tests Support With A Harami
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Although Microsoft remains in a clear downtrend, the stock is testing support with a bullish candlestick pattern that could foreshadow an oversold bounce.
Making Money With Chaos by Hans Hannula, Ph.D., RSA, CTA
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Making Money With Chaos by Hans Hannula, Ph.D., RSA, CTA An order indeed exists in the market, as W.D. Gann and, more recently, J. Welles Wilder have claimed. But the order is not as perfect as some have made it out to be, simply because the market obey
Making The Most Of A Trend With The Disparity Index by Dan Valcu
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Making The Most Of A Trend With The Disparity Index by Dan Valcu In volatile markets, it's difficult to forecast the formation of peaks and troughs. The disparity index is an indicator that helps you squeeze the best out of a trend whether you are tradi
Manage Your Trades With Elliott Wave
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The easy part of investing in stocks is getting into a trade. You study the chart, understand the company's business and fundamentals, find your buy point, and then dive in with big expectations. But what's next? How do you know when to take your
Managing Money With Moe Ansari
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Moe Ansari is a financial expert and the host of "Market Wrap", a nationally syndicated radio broadcast. He manages client investment portfolios at his firm, Compak Asset Management. His professional experience includes option trading, portfolio optimiza
Managing Risk With Lan Turner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Lan Turner has worked in the financial industry for more than 18 years and has taught his ideas on stocks, futures, and forex trading to clients, professional traders, and brokers from around the world.
Managing Risk With Options by Scott H. Fullman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Managing Risk With Options by Scott H. Fullman Ever get the feeling you're throwing good money after bad in your stock transactions? Ever feel your wallet getting lighter and lighter while it's still in your pocket because of what your stock's doing? Ev
Managing the Future with Managed Futures by Victor Sperandeo
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Managing The Future With Managed Futures by Victor Sperandeo The stock market has been trending higher for a record period, and a correction is long overdue. What can you do to stay in the game, besides reduce your risk? Consider diversifying your asset
Market Cycles With Donald Dony
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Donald Dony is a professional technical analyst and holds the top global designation of Master of Financial Technical Analysis from the International Federation of Technical Analysts (IFTA), the first in Canada to achieve this designation.
Market Kinematics With Stan Harley
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stan Harley's career has spanned investment advisory services, defense/aerospace, and military service. A former naval aviator in various fighter aircraft, Harley attended the US Navy's fighter weapons school better known as Top Gun. An investment adviso
Market Timing With Candlesticks
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Let the market tell you what it's going to do.
Market Turns And Continuation Moves With The Tick Index by Tim Ord
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market Turns And Continuation Moves With The Tick Index by Tim Ord The tick index is a little-known indicator that can be used to indicate short-term stock market reversals and provide trend confirmation. Short-term traders should consider using the tic
Market Types, Sideways Markets, And Trading With Bollinger Bands
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...You can increase your odds of adapting your strategy to the market type in effect.
Market entry with action/reaction lines by Ron Jaenisch
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market entry with action/reaction lines by Ron Jaenisch Action/Reaction lines are a charting technique developed in the early 1900s by Roger Babson, who founded the Babson Business Institute in Massachusetts and believed Newton's laws of gravity affecte
Matching Money Management With Trade Risk by Daryl Guppy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Matching Money Management With Trade Risk by Daryl Guppy Manage your trades using technical analysis by identifying risk points as well as setting profit objectives. This Australia-based author shares some of his favorite techniques. Most of us think
Maximizing profits with stop orders: The Wyckoff method of trading stocks part 11 by Jack K. Hutson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Maximizing profits with stop orders: The Wyckoff method of trading stocks part 11 by Jack K. Hutson No matter what technical system you use, the first rule of successful trading and investing is: Cut your losses short. No one believed more firmly in thi
May Price And Volume Be With You
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The relationship between price and volume is key to trading profitably. Here's an in-depth look.
Measuring Market Internals With L.A. Little
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...L.A. Little is a professional money manager trading his own accounts while managing investment funds for qualified investors from his Colorado-based office. He is the author of three books.
Measuring Risk With The Normalized Risk Index
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Risk - there are many ways to measure it, but how effective are they? Here's one measure that is versatile and suitable for just about any type of risk profile
Measuring The Markets With Pivots by Austin Passamonte
Meridian Golden Cup With Handle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Gold has been moving higher and along with it most of the gold producers. While the price of the metal frolics around $400/oz., Meridian Gold is forming an interesting cup with handle pattern.
Microchip Technology (MCHP) - A Chart Filled With Caution
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Rising wedge formations tend to have bearish impications, and MCHP is in the process of finishing one.
Modeling With Daily Implied Volatility
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In this first part of a two-part series, find out how incorporating daily implied volatility into your system can give you the edge you've been looking for.
Modeling the Markets with Nelson Freeburg by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...INTERVIEW - Modeling the Markets with Nelson Freeburg by Thom Hartle I never could claim that I was a very good technical trader using conventional chart patterns. This absence of positive results in my own trading, combined with my academic background
Modeling the markets with Bezier curves by Mark Angel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Modeling the markets with Bezier curves by Mark Angel The Bezier curve, also known as a B-curve, is a mathematical construct for tracing a smooth path between a series of key support and resistance points. B-curves, which were created as an industrial e
Modeling with pattern recognition decision rules by Ted C. Earle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Modeling with pattern recognition decision rules by Ted C. Earle Empirical decision rules can help you recognize patterns in price actions. Earle provides detailed buy and sell rules along with examples using data on gold price changes over time. Most
More Gains Possible With WYN?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Another long buy signal has just printed for Wyndham Worldwide. Does this stock have enough fuel left to make another rally high?
Moving Averages with Resistance and Support by Dennis L. Tilley
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Moving averages are a popular way to signal trends. Combine moving averages and the classic chart analysis of support and resistance for trading mutual funds. Most simple moving average systems require one or two additional confirmation signals to avoi
Moving Window Spectral Method: Price Forecasting With Cycles by A.D. Ridley, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Moving Window--Spectral Method: Price Forecasting With Cycles by A.D. Ridley, Ph.D. I would-like to introduce a new method of stock market forecasting with a practical application. The Moving Window-Spectral (MWS) method [1] takes advantage of the cyclic
My Problem With Gold
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...With the world in recession, common belief is that investors should flock to gold to protect their wealth. Research suggests otherwise.
N-CAMA: Combining Artificial Intelligence With A Time-Tested Technical Analysis Indicator
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Traditional technical analysis tools can benefit from the aid of machine learning. Here, we introduce a dynamic trading model called the N-CAMA. It combines a time-tested tool, the adjustable moving average, with the power of artificial intelligence for
NEC: Cup With Handle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The recent depreciation in the yen has provided welcome relief for some Japanese stocks; NEC appears to have benefited following a decline since April.
NEM In Tune With Reversed MACD System
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The reversed MACD trading system provides profitable results on most stocks, with its three-year performance record with Newmont Mining of particular interest.
Natural Gas: Trading The June Top With The 8-wave Pattern
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A basic 8-wave pattern, along with the Fibonacci ratios and a few other indicators, can be used to trade a market top. In this example, I will use the NYMEX August 2003 futures contract to show how the June 6 market top could have been traded.
Navigating The Markets With Josh DiPietro
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Josh DiPietro knows about the challenges traders will face on the road to trading successfully. He wrote about it in his 2009 book "The Truth About Day Trading Stocks: A Cautionary Tale About Hard Challenges," based on first-hand experiences. Here, he sh
Navigating The Turns With The VIX
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The market is in a constant state of motion, trading up and down, but using the VIX you can navigate the turns for low-risk trades with lots of profit potential.
Neural Networks With Learning Disabilities by Connie Brown
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Neural Networks With Learning Disabilities by Connie Brown Neural networks are systems that use architecture similar to the brain as a means to analyze data and find hidden relationships. A neural network is well suited for the task of pattern recogniti
New Tricks With Old Indicators
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Traders are always looking for ways to refine their tools. Here, we'll reshape and redesign two familiar, classic indicators. The result is something new that could improve your ability to identify oversold buying opportunities.
New Tricks With the Dogs of the Dow by Mark Vakkur, M.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS..."The Dogs of the Dow," a popular strategy based on purchasing the highest-yielding stocks each year, is reviewed here using a longer lookback period than originally used, as well as detailed analyses of the risks and rewards. On Beating the Dow, Michael
Nike Forms Cup With Handle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...After one sideways move, the stock waits for a further bullish breakout to carry the rally ahead.
Oil Play With Schlumberger
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...With the price of oil rising almost every day, one should be wary of investing in oil companies, yet the price of oil keeps rising offering opportunities.
Oil Services Not Impressed With Oil
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...While oil exceeded its March high with ease, the Oil Service HOLDRS (OIH) is having a little more trouble and meeting resistance from its March high.
Optimizing RSI with cycles by John F. Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Optimizing RSI with cycles by John F. Ehlers A look at Wilder's Relative Strength Index oscillator and an optimization using cycles. Also included is a BASIC computer program which follows the author's optimization processes. As an engineer I have ofte
Optimizing With Hilbert Indicators by Roger Darley
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Optimizing With Hilbert Indicators by Roger Darley Adjusting your trading signals to account for what's actually happening in the market can mean a nice profit for you. If I knew what the optimum moving average length (or any other filter 's length) wa
Optimizing directional movement with cycles by John F. Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Optimizing directional movement with cycles by John F. Ehlers Directional Movement, an approach which weighs the daily difference between highs and the difference between lows, can be optimized by applying cycle concepts. Ehlers explains the process and
Option Strategies With Roy Radziszewski by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...So often, options are something that you can take or leave, but sometimes they catch your interest and never let go. That seems to have been the case with Roy Radziszewski, the product manager of option products for TradeStation Securities, who began
Outperform The Market With Sector ETFs
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's a long-term strategy that is similar to the dogs of the Dow strategy, except that it uses Select Sector ETFs. Find out how this strategy can be used to outperform the S&P 500.
Overbought/Oversold, With Covered Calls by Austin Passamonte
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Overbought/Oversold, With Covered Calls by Austin Passamonte Knowing when to buy and when to exit or how to protect equity plays is basic for long-term prosperity. Here is one way to do it using covered calls. Every stock trader should be ready and wil
Overlooked Stocks with Home Run Potential
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...One stock in an overlooked part of the market has great potential for high returns if you know how to trade it.
Pair Trading With A Twist
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading stock pairs may be something that you may not think about much. But if market conditions are such that no trading methodology of yours is going to work, it's best to keep your options open. Here, we look at pair trading to find which approach wor
Pair Trading With Spreadsheets
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Build a spreadsheet to aid in revealing profitable opportunities in pair trades.
Pairs Rotation With Ehlers Loops, Part 2
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Last time in part 1, a new charting style named Ehlers Loops was introduced that could help you to gain predictive insights by the nature of the display. This time, we'll look at Ehlers Loops in action with a pairs trading example
Parking Money With Aegon H
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When the market corrects, the gamblers buy as stocks fall. Investors wait until the market turns and only buy as the shares rise. Aegon is an example
Part 2 Succeeding with options by Leonard Yates
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...part 2 Succeeding with options by Leonard Yates As promised in the first half of this article, here are three safe and reliable methods for succeeding in options without forecasting the underlying security. Method #1: Temporary mispricings Options fre
Perennial Mutual Funds: Staying With Winners by Palmer Wright, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Perennial Mutual Funds: Staying With Winners by Palmer Wright, Ph.D. In past issues of STOCKS & COMMODITIES, Fay Dworkin and Gary Zin have advocated selecting stock mutual funds on the basis of relative performance over periods of one to nine months. Zi
Pick Strength With TGH
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The damage to the supply chain and doubt about the future should cause you to pick strength over growth, and one stock fits the bill
Picking Tops And Bottoms With The Tick Index by Tim Ord
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Picking Tops And Bottoms With The Tick Index by Tim Ord As a young trader, I first used moving averages, point and figure charts and some Gann methods and then moved on to the Elliott wave fad. But none of these methods or techniques really gave me a st
Pinning Trades With Huzefa Hamid
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Huzefa Hamid began trading in 2000 with UK & US equities and equity options. He gravitated toward technical trading, building his own trading rules and systems. In 2012, Huzefa was appointed senior analyst at DailyForex.com. His published articles presen
Pinpointing Turning Points With The ChanLun Method
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Are you ready for something completely different from traditional technical analysis? This methodology works in both trending and ranging markets, in any timeframe. It's all about the "rise, fall, and range." Here is an introducti
Placing Stops With Moving Averages And Bollinger Bands
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Taking a stop too early is better than taking a loss. Using these two indicators could help.
Playing It Safe With Cryptos
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Cryptocurrency trading carries various kinds of risks. Here, we'll compare several trading methods to find out which could have less risk when approaching the cryptocurrency markets
Playing Oil With Petro Canada
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Petro Canada is a Canadian oil and gas company with International interests.
Playing The Commodities Rebound With Options
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan's dramatic decline appears to be over. Here's an interesting option play on this agriculture sector giant.
Playing The Range With Qualcomm
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Qualcomm has been stuck in a trading range since August 2006, and another oversold reading from a key momentum oscillator points to a bounce.
Playing With Gold
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...With the probability that gold could start rising strongly, here are two shares one could play with.
Playing With Numbers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Which strategy will give you a better return on account? Here we compare the performance of three strategies to see which comes out ahead
Playing With The ETF Spiders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...We day trade options on SPY. One outstanding stock, one simple strategy, one hour a day to earn 5-10%.
Playing With i-Shares And ETFs
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...I hate i-Shares and ETFs because they are used by hedge funds to play the market. Hedge funds are not as tightly restricted as brokerage houses... yet.
Position Sizing With Monte Carlo Simulation by Michael R. Bryant, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Need to know how much to put on your next trade? You can figure it out with 95% reliability using this simulation technique. Consider this: Jane and Joe started trading the same Standard & Poor's 500 futures trading system at the same time. They each be
Power Up Your Indicators With Jean Folger
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Jean Folger is a technical analyst and system researcher with PowerZone Trading, a company she cofounded. She is author of Make Money Trading: How To Build A Winning Trading Business, and a private trader specializing in the emini markets. PowerZone Trad
Predicting Prices With Support And Resistance by Thomas N. Bulkowski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Predicting Prices With Support And Resistance by Thomas N. Bulkowski Support and resistance are important chart patterns. Read this to find out why. I consider support and resistance (SAR) the most important chart patterns. Why? By finding SAR, you can
Predicting Reversals With Pivot Points
Predicting Reversals With Pivot Points
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Fast and easy to calculate and chart, if the rumors are true, pivot points can help you predict reversals and next-day trading ranges.
Predicting S&P 500 Tops And Bottoms With Shannon Entropy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...This measure of uncertainty can provide insights into market dynamics that traditional methods may overlook. Find out how
Predicting The Future With Kondratieff Waves
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...If you believe in the theory espoused by the late economist Nicolai Kondratieff, then you realize that the economic malaise in the United States is likely to last until at least 2010 and possibly all the way out until 2018.
Predicting The Market With Earnings Per Share by Randall J. Covill
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Predict The Market With Earnings Per Share by Randall J. Covill Take a look at the relationship between changes in earnings per share for each year and the performance of the market for the following year. Is there a correlation? One of Benjamin Graham
Predicting The Market With Unreliable Sources by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Predicting The Market With Unreliable Sources by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D. Joe trades Standard & Poor's 500 contracts, and at the moment he is in a quandary. He looks at a chart of the market and wonders what he should do. The market looks as though it's in a
Predicting Turning Points With Cobweb Theory by Chris Satchwell, Ph.D.
Predicting market order with the Delta phenomenon by J. Welles Wilder
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Predicting market order with the Delta phenomenon by J. Welles Wilder Does each market have an underlying order that makes it predictable? The answer is yes. That order makes a riskless trading strategy possible. The Delta phenomenon shows the underly
Price Action With Fibonacci Part 2
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Combining price action with Fibonacci levels is simple but powerful. Here's how to unleash the potential of these levels
Product Review: Enhancing Portfolio Value with Covered Call Options
Product Review: LIFFE Data ver 1.0 with LIFFEstyle Software
Product Review: Option Wizard with backtest
Product Review: Wizetrade With eSignal And PC Quote by John Sweeney
Product review: 2020 Master Trader Program: Superperformance Workshop With Mark Minervini
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Over the past 37 years, Mark Minervini learned the keys to profitable trading by studying over 10,000 best-performing stock charts and developing hard-and-fast trading rules, all of which helped to catapult him from novice to supertrader
Profit With Dual Oscillators & Bands
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Channels make excellent tools for identifying trends, breakouts, and retracements. Here's one way to combine channels with indicators to better identify the direction of price and the strength of that movement.
Profit With High Relative Strength Mutual Funds by Gerald Gardner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Profit With High Relative Strength Mutual Funds by Gerald Gardner This timing method will maximize profit and reduce drawdown. Correlation of equity funds phenomena manifests itself in many stock data series. For this study, I explored the correlation
Profit taking with Mendelsohn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Profit taking with Mendelsohn Over the years, Lou Mendelsohn has been not only a persistent presence among trading system vendors, he's also stood out as one of the few who advocated complete disclosure of the systems being sold. Not content to disclose
Profitable Daytrades With Candlestick Signals
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Candlestick signals and patterns are as effective on a one-minute chart as on a monthly chart. Here's a look at using candlestick signals to locate high-probability daytrade setups
Profiting From Volatile Markets With OOPS
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...This famous Larry Williams trade setup can be especially profitable when markets are making wide intraday swings.
Profiting From the Gap With Overnight Trading
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Do you hate entering a new trading position first thing in the morning, especially after the market has already staged a big rally in the overnight session? Why not investigate ways to trade both the day and night session automatically or on an "as-
Profiting With Delta Neutral Positions
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading delta neutral positions is a strategy that is used by professional and nonprofessional traders to produce profits with reduced risk. The idea is to remove the directional component from the position so that profits can be made whether the underly
Profiting With Nortel Using Point And Figure And The Horizontal Target Count
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In analysis of stocks today, point and figure analysis is rarely used. Yet if used correctly, it is very helpful. Here is a chart of Nortel and my analysis techniques using the strategies I teethed on in 1965.
Projecting Price And Time With Gann Fans And Angles by Koos van der Merwe
Prospecting With Gold Mutual Funds by Jay Kaeppel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Prospecting With Gold Mutual Funds by Jay Kaeppel Gold. In the past, it inspired rushes and revolutions, passion and poetry, but in recent times gold mutual funds have been distinctly lackluster. The emotion that the precious metal inspired may have dwi
Protecting Profits With Strangles
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Options are often thought of as being risky and they often are, especially when you do not have a clear understanding of how they work. There are times, however, when a thorough understanding of an option strategy can help to minimize downside risk while
Pulte Home Firms With Piercing Pattern
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Pulte Home managed to firm over the last few months, but bulls have yet to prove their mettle. Here's what to watch for.
Pulte Plays with Double Top
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The homebuilders have been leading the market for some time, but signs of distribution are starting to surface in one of the leaders.
Puttin' On The Ritz With Kohl's
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...With a fundamentally strong stock at a support level, signs of a bullish reversal may mean it's a good time to sell a put.
QCOM Reverses With Gaps
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Qualcomm appeared to break down with a gap in early November, but the stock countered with a gap up and follow-through above resistance would be bullish.
Quantifying Divergence with the Divergence Index by Matt Storz
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...NEW TECHNIQUES Quantifying Divergence With The Divergence Index Divergence, a popular technical term used to denote a market movement in one direction when a technical indicator fails to follow it, can forewarn of a reversal in market direction. However
Quick Scan: Micro Trading Tactics With Oliver Velez by Dennis Peterson
Quick Scan: Trading With Bollinger Bands
Quick Scan:LIFFE Data Version 3.0 With Lifestyle Software
Quick-Scans: Trading with the Elliott Principle
RSI profitability with money management by Thomas P. Drinka and Steven L. Kille
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...RSI profitability with money management by Thomas P. Drinka and Steven L. Kille In the April 1987 issue of this magazine, we reported the results of applying moving averages, momentum, Williams' %R, Wilder's Relative Strength Index, and Wilder's Directi
Rate Of Change With Bands
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here, we introduce a type of trading band you can use on your charts. These bands are based on the rate-of-change oscillator
Reading The QQQs With Elliott Waves
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Elliott waves can be misleading. What seems to be an obvious wave count can change in the blink of an eye.
Repair Strategies With Options by Kevin Lund and Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Repair Strategies With Options by Kevin Lund and Tom Gentile Here's a strategy for fixing a good trade gone bad. As we've seen many times in the last year, a gap down with bad news on a stock you're holding can not only be devastating to your trading a
Retro Investing With An Eisenhower-Era Approach
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's something for those with a nostalgic bent.
Riding Along With Canadian Railways
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...With the indexes falling out of bed as Italy joins Greece in the European uncertainty, it is always gratifying to find a stock going against the tumbling trend.
Riding The Waves With The Leavitt Convolution
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's an indicator that is predictive and has an associated probability function. Combine them with other probabilities to form a strategy that trades bull put spreads for SPX and QQQ concurrently
Riding for Profits with "Irv the Liquidator" by Richard J. Maturi
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Riding for Profits with ""Irv the Liquidator"" by Richard J. Maturi Wall Street Journal articles over the past few months have reported the financial dealings of Irwin Jacobs, better known as ""Irv the Liquidator."" Jacobs invests in companies he consid
Risk Analysis With Standard Deviation
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Investments are risky. So how do you minimize the risks?
Roller-Coaster Thrills With Triple-Leveraged Small-Cap ETFs
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...If you can handle the volatility, consider taking the Direxion Small Cap Bull 3x Shares ETF for a ride through the small-cap markets.
Room With A View, Or Deja Vu?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...It's not always a good thing when your predictions come true.
Rowan's Triangle Breakout with a Developing Cup and Handle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Rowan Cos. recently broke out of a bullish triangle formation and now looks to be forming a cup with handle.
Running With The Hype
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Batteries used in electricity powered cars are made with lithium. So you buy stock in a company that produces lithium, and if so, which company, and are you happy with your purchase?
Russell 2000 Rendezvous With 650 This Year?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Sure, daily price action in small-cap stocks can be erratic, even nerve-wracking at times. To get the big picture, however, consider spending some quality time with your Russell 2000 monthly charts.
S&P 500 Struggles With 950
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Two chart formations show heavy resistance at the 950 zone.
SIDEBAR: CALCULATING THE THRUST OSCILLATOR WITH THE TECHNICIAN
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...CALCULATING THE THRUST OSCILLATOR WITH THE TECHNICIAN Plotting the thrust oscillator (TO) requires two user formulas. The first one calculates the daily value; this formula in The Technician's language is: ...
SIDEBAR: MODIFYING RISK AND RETURN WITH S&P 500 FUTURES
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...MODIFYING RISK AND RETURN WITH S&P 500 FUTURES Stock index futures modify risk by altering the portfolio beta and portfolio return by affecting cash balances. Take an example. A $10 million portfolio currently has a beta of 1.2. The manager wants to inc
SIDEBAR: PROFITABILITY OF BREAKOUT AND OSCILLATOR METHODS WITH S&P 500
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...PROFITABILITY OF BREAKOUT AND OSCILLATOR METHODS WITH S&P 500 Profitability of breakout and oscillator methods with S&P 500.
Searching for Clues with Jay Kaeppel by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Searching for Clues with Jay Kaeppel by Thom Hartle Devising and implementing a strategy is the key to successful trading, according to Jay Kaeppel, director of market research for Essex Trading Co., Ltd. Stocks & Commodities Editor Thom Hartle spoke wi
Sears Holdings' Super Sized Cup With Handle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Measuring more than 55 points, the cup with handle patterns in Sears Holdings projects upside to more than 200.
Seasonality With Sy Harding
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Sy Harding publishes the financial website Street Smart Report Online and a morning blog three times a week at www.StreetSmartPost.com. In 1999 he published the book Riding The Bear: How To Prosper In The Coming Bear Market, in which he correctly predict
Seasonality and Trading by Jeffrey Owen Katz, Ph.D., with Donna L. McCormick
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Seasonality and Trading by Jeffrey Owen Katz, Ph.D., with Donna L. McCormick This month, this trader and consultant looks at seasonality as the basis of a trading system. My search for successful systems began with the brute-force application of neura
Seeing The Patterns With Dan Zanger
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Dan Zanger of Chartpattern.com is a swing trader and technical analyst focused on stocks Ñ and a force in stock trading. He is the world record holder, independently audited, for the largest percent change in a personal portfolio for a 12-month period (a
Seeking Long-Term Growth With The Power Zone/Dead Zone Approach
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's an investing approach that seeks to take advantage of seasonality in the stock market
Selling Stock With Investor Relations by Carolyn Kott Washburne
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Selling Stock With Investor Relations by Carolyn Kott Washburne A veteran stock broker took aside a new trainee to give him some advice. ""There is an old saying in this business,"" said the veteran. ""When the president of a company wants to buy you lu
Set Up Your Trades With The Swing Indicator by Teresa Lo
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V. 22:9 (46-56): Set Up Your Trades With The Swing Indicator by Teresa Lo Knowing when and where classic chart patterns tend to form is as important as identifying the patterns themselves. Here's how one trader uses a combination of indicators and simpl
Setting Stops And Taking Profits With Maximum Excurson by Sergei Dobrovolsky
Setting Strategies With SwamiCharts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Once you have identified a cyclical movement, you may think the most difficult part is over. Unfortunately, not all cycles are tradable. Here's one indicator that can tell you the best time to use a swing wave as an effective trading signal.
Short-Term Profits With Gap Trading by Glaister Welsh
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Short-Term Profits With Gap Trading by Glaister Welsh Mispriced stocks are often caused by gaps, which you can take advantage of by applying a strategy that generates above-average returns while reducing your risk. Check it out. A convergence trading s
Short-Term Trading With SVAPO by Sylvain Vervoort
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Short-Term Trading With SVAPO by Sylavain Vervoort The trading rules I will discuss here are based on an eight-bar shortterm volume and price oscillator (SVAPO) period with a 1/1,000 minimum price change and with an upper standard deviation channel at 1
Should You Trade With Technical Indicators?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Is technical analysis for you? It depends on your approach to the market.
Sidebar: Predicting turning points with cobweb theory by Chris Satchwell, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Sidebar: Predicting turning points with cobweb theory by Chris Satchwell, Ph.D. - PREDICTING TURNING POINTS WITH COBWEB THEORY
Sidebar: RAJ rules with TradeStation by Xavier Maria Raj
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:12 (50-52): Sidebar: RAJ rules with TradeStation by Xavier Maria Raj D1 = Current Day D2 = Next Day H1 = High of Current Day. . .
Sifting The Ashes For Tomorrow's Leaders With DBA
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Even though the broad markets are still enmeshed in a major bull rally, it may still pay to dig through the relative strength rankings to seek out those lagging industry groups that may be poised to be tomorrow's leaders.
Signaling Change with Projection Bands by Mel Widner, Ph.D
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V.13:07 (275-281): Signaling Change with Projection Bands by Mel Widner, Ph.D Projection bands, a new method using trading bands, projects market data forward along the data trend with the maxima and minima of the projections defining the band. The meth
Silver's Cup With Handle Bottom
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...After a perilous drop in April from over $8 to under $6, is silver ready to rally?
Silver's King-Sized Cup With Handle Pattern
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A note on silver's rally above $12 and how it got there.
Simple Strategy With 80% Winners
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Traders often look for complex strategies but simple could be profitable, and this simple idea points to further gains in stocks.
Smoothing Data With Faster Moving Averages by Patrick G. Mulloy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Smoothing Data With Faster Moving Averages By Patrick G. Mulloy Has the lag time of moving averages ever irritated you? Well, there is a way around it: a modified statistical version of exponential smoothing with less lag time than the standard exponent
Smoothing Data With Less Lag by Patrick G. Mulloy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Smoothing Data With Less Lag by Patrick G. Mulloy Last time, Mulloy discussed basic moving averages, introduced a new filter called DEMA1 and demonstrated a method with which to utilize exponential moving averages. Mulloy also explained how this new fil
Smoothing The Ride With Moving Averages by Edward Donie
Speculating With The 10-Bagger
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Neither fundamentals nor technicals quite did the job with the 10-bagger. Will speculation do the trick?
Spotting Price Reversals With The VIX
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Crowds are often wrong, particularly in the market. Use the CBOE Volatility Index to be on the right side.
Spotting Price Reversals With The VIX by John Zachary
Spotting Trends with RSI
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In addition to providing buy and sell signals, RSI can highlight longer-term trends in the market.
Squandering Aimlessly With David Brancaccio
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The host of public radio's "Marketplace" wrote a book on what you would do if you came into money. What would you learn?
Stage Analysis With Trend Channels
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Price channels show when the S&P 500 went into acceleration mode in November 2005.
Stay In The Market With Stop-And-Reverse
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...If you hate being out of the market, you should take a look at this system.
Stay On Track With The Supertrend Indicator
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The supertrend indicator combines price and volatility information to help traders stay in tune with the larger trend. Find out how to calculate and use it
Staying with the markets by Eric L. Sharp
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Staying with the markets by Eric L. Sharp Experience is a great teacher, but she charges such horrendous fees. Traders in both the cash and futures markets know that better than anyone. Anything that increases your insight into directions and targets fo
Stick To The Trend With Tina Logan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Tina Logan (www.tinalogan.com) is the author of Getting Started In Candlestick Charting and Profiting From Market Trends. She has more than 23 years of combined experience as a trainer in corporate settings and as a coach for traders
Stillwater Mining Follows Through With Major Momentum
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stillwater Mining has already made a strong move higher, but since strong stocks frequently move even higher, this high-flyer might be worth a second look.
Stock Market Ending the Year with a Bang?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How to take advantage of a late year stock market decline.
Stock market timing with interest rates by Jay Kaeppel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stock market timing with interest rates by Jay Kaeppel The level and trend of interest rates has a tremendous influence over what types of investments investors choose to put their money into. Generally, when interest rates are low and/or falling, inves
Stocks & Commodities V. 26:1 (58-64) More Than A Trading System With Adrienne Toghraie by Jayanthi G
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...More Than A Trading System With Adrienne Toghraie by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Adrienne Laris Toghraie is an internationally recognized authority in the field of human development and a master practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) for the fin
Stocks & Commodities V. 26:5 (58-61) Reducing Risk With Delta-Vega Hedging by Seongjin Cho & Ingyu K
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Reducing Risk With Delta-Vega Hedging by Seongjin Cho & Ingyu Koh Predicting market movements with options can be profitable but risky -- here's how to make it safer. The size of the option market has increased significantly, thanks to high leverage. Ma
Stocks & Commodities V. 26:6 (20-24) Profit With ETFs by Gerald Gardner and Trent Gardner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Profit With ETFs by Gerald Gardner and Trent Gardner Here's a timing method you can use to trade exchange traded funds. Exchange traded funds (ETFs) are ideal candidates with which to explore the timing of investments. More than 400 ETFs are tradable a
Studying ETFs Online With R
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here is an example of using an open-source language, R, to code indicators, which the authors then used to create their own app that can compare ETFs. Here is how they did it
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
Support and Resistance with the Andrews Pitchfork by Barbara Star
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Support And Resistance With The Andrews Pitchfork by Barbara Star, Ph.D Here's a charting technique that's available in most of today's popular software. If you're not familiar with it, here are some tips to using it. If you are familiar with it, it's t
Surfing Your Position With Wave Stops by E. Labunsky and T. Hamilton
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Surfing Your Position With Wave Stops by E. Labunsky and T. Hamilton When is a good time and place to exit a position? Whether inspired by Ralph Nelson Elliott's works or by just a casual observation of a price chart, you can't help but notice how pr
Surviving The Test of Time With J. Welles Wilder by Brian Twomey
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Surviving The Test of Time With J. Welles Wilder by Brian Twomey J. Welles Wilder is an author, market technician, and inventor of indicators and trading systems that have become classics over time. Without Wilder's contributions to technical analysis,
Swing Trade With The Gann Hi-Lo Activator
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's an indicator that swing traders can use to help find peaks and valleys of price movement, which is crucial to their success
Swing Trading Uptrends With Wide Candles
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Finding the best stocks and ETFs to swing trade can be quite challenging. In this month's column, you'll learn how to use a simple wide-candle approach to help you visually scan for strong breakouts
Swing Trading With Engulfing Patterns
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Candlesticks can help you pick low-risk trade setups, especially when using other indicators as filters.
Swing Trading With Momentum On Your Side
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Seeing a simple breakout may convince you to place a trade, but how do you know if a breakout is really a breakout? Here's one way you can jump into a trade and not get caught off-guard.
Swing Trading With Swing Charts by Teresa Lo
Swing Trading With Sylvain Vervoort
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Sylvain Vervoort was involved with computers and software since the early days of microcomputing. He has always been fascinated by computer hardware, computer programming, and later on, technical analysis of the stock market. Many of his S&C articles ove
Swing Trading With Three Indicators
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...You have to start somewhere.
Swing Trading With Three Indicators
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...You've heard it time and time again: You need to have a trading plan. But how do you create one? You have to start somewhere, and here's one system that can lift you into the world of system traders.
Swing Trading With Trendlines
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...All trends, whatever they are, last only so long.
Swinging Trades With Steven Place
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Steven Place is a professional trader specializing in swing trading equity options. He focuses on structuring trades to exploit quantitative models and technical analysis while minimizing risk through portfolio hedging. He has been profitable in both bul
Swingin' With The Trade With Toni Hansen by J. Gopalakrishnan & B. Faber
Swingin' With The Trade With Toni Hansen by J. Gopalakrishnan & B. Faber
System Trading Made Easy With John Bollinger
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...John Bollinger is an analyst, author, and president and founder of Bollinger Capital Management, an investment management company that provides technically driven money management services.
Systematic Hedging Of An Equity Portfolio With Short-Selling Strategies Based On The VIX
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The VIX--often referred to as the fear index--can be harnessed for a defensive strategy. You may be able to hedge your portfolio using short-selling signals based on the VIX. Here's how
TA For The Longer Term With Boon Chin Low
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...BC Low has been a teacher and practitioner of technical analysis since the 1980s. He is one of Singapore's earliest practitioners to attain the Chartered Market Technician credential. At Singapore Polytechnic, he created and taught two modules of "Techni
Tactical asset allocation with the Market Forecaster by Mark Hallinan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Tactical asset allocation with the Market Forecaster by Mark Hallinan When used as an allocator, the Market Forecaster program, produced by William Finnegan Associates, Inc., may produce higher profits than a simple buy-and-hold strategy and at less ris
Take Charge Of Your Investing With Mutual Funds
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Investing isn't as hard as you think. Check out these mutual funds.
Taking A Chance With Another Company Based In China
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's one company that could take the US markets by storm.
Taking A Chance With Snapchat
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Looking back at many popular companies that listed on the exchange, we see that they often dropped in price after their initial listing yet today are soaring.
Talking With "Trader Vic'' Sperandeo by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Talking With ""Trader Vic"" Sperandeo Victor Sperandeo, money manager, economist and co-author of the popular Trader Vic: Secrets of a Wall Street Master and author of a second book due out this winter, is more than just a successful trader. A trading an
Talking With "Turtle" Russell Sands by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Talking With ""Turtle"" Russell Sands by Thom Hartle We talked with ""turtle"" Russell Sands about the importance of risk management, following the trend and understanding crowd behavior. How did you end up becoming one of the turtles? Believe it or n
Technical Trading With Heiken-Ashi
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using a little known method of trend identification can tell you when to enter the market and when to sit on the sidelines.
Technically Trading The Yen With Money Management by Timothy L. Krehbiel, Thomas P. Drinka, and Gise
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Technically Trading The Yen With Money Management By Timothy L. Krebiel, Thomas P. Drinka, Gisele F. Hamm Any good trading methodology includes selecting the best indicators for a tradeable and applying money management techniques to hold on to profits.
Tesla Stock: Comparing Traditional Investment Strategies With Systematic Trading
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's a demonstration of a simple algorithmic strategy, made up of just a few lines of code, that you can use to potentially capture profit from a rising stock while protecting against sharp retracements
Tesoro Going With Strength
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Covered-call trading isn't glamorous, but it can be one of the lowest-risk plays as a long-term trend approaches a possible pause point.
The Cash Cow by Carley Garner with Paul Brittain
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:8 (24-27): The Cash Cow by Carley Garner with Paul Brittain Here's a look at a side of short option trading that you cannot ignore. On the surface, selling options for the sole purpose of premium collection appears irrational
The Danger Zone With Gregory Morris by J. Gopalakrishnan and B. Faber
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Danger Zone With Gregory Morris by J. Gopalakrishnan and B. Faber As chief technical analyst for Stadion Money Management, Gregory Morris educates institutional and individual clients on the merits of technical analysis, and it is why Stadion utiliz
The Emini S&P's Cup With Handle Bottom
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Blood on the streets in Tokyo leads to a short-term buying opportunity in New York.
The Euro's Cup With Handle Rally
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...An intraday breakout in the EUR/USD sets the stage for an important test of the October highs.
The Euro's Cup with Handle Breakout
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The greenback's loss has been the euro's gain.
The Joy Of Trading with Statistics by Ben Warwick
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Joy Of Trading with Statistics by Ben Warwick For many of you who have traded in the past, the title of this article may take you by surprise. How can trading be work of joy? Only when you are winning, obviously, but there's more to it than that. Sy
The Nasdaq Powers Higher With Another Gap
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Nasdaq seems to relish announcing bullish intentions with gaps. If this current gap (11/14/02) doesn't close or start to close in three days, a strong move may be in store.
The Road Ahead With Two Indicators
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The market is entering a new phase that can lead to enormous profits or massive drawdowns based on Keltner channels and Bollinger Bands.
The S&P 500's Cup With Handle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A classic chart pattern suggests more upside for the S&P 500 as the holiday season begins.
The Trader's Dilemma: Dealing With Zones Of Uncertainty
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using the statistical concepts of sample size and population, we offer a better way to filter out whipsaws in a trend-following system based on moving averages
The Trouble With THC's Double Bottom
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How a bearish engulfing candlestick warned double-bottom bulls that the party was over.
The Trouble With Tech
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Disfavored seasonally, tech stocks struggle to make progress to the upside.
The Trouble With Tilray
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The trouble with Tilray, Inc. (TLRY), the Canadian based grower, processor and researcher of medical cannabis, is that its share price has hit a very rough patch.
The Trouble With Triangles
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Have you traded ascending, descending, or symmetrical triangles and lost money when the trend reversed? Here's a look at how often triangle patterns fail.
The V-Trade Part 10: Trading With Leverage
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Parts 1 through 9 of this series covered the building blocks for a complete trading strategy, including the technical analysis used and the trading rules. The series continues here with some practical information on getting started and setting up a tradi
Then and Now with Tim Slater by J. Gopalakrishnan & B. Faber
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Before there was TradeStation, before there was MetaStock and eSignal, there was CompuTrac, one of the first technical analysis software programs ever written for a personal computer. The software could process technical analysis on stocks, futures, and
Through The Forex Trenches With Wade Hansen
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Wade Hansen has been involved in investor education his entire career. Most recently, he cofounded Learning Markets and Pf x Global (Profiting With Forex) to help individual investors learn to take control of their investment portfolios. He has also
Tim Hayes: Running With The Trend by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Tim Hayes: Running With The Trend by Thom Hartle Ned Davis Research strategist Tim Hayes spoke with S&C about the firm's approach and emphasis on models and trend-sensitive indicators. Ned Davis Research uses a three-part market model, among others. ST
Timing Stock Buys with an Oscillator by Richard Goedde
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Timing Stock Buys With An Oscillator by Richard Goedde Use this oscillator to calculate buy points for a stock in an upward trend. Oscillators are most useful when prices fluctuate up and down within a horizontal or flat channel (two parallel lines tha
Timing The Bond Market With Elliott And Fibonacci by Roger Farley
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Timing The Bond Market With Elliott And Fibonacci by Roger Farley Fibonacci ratio analysis offers the Treasury bond trader an excellent long-term picture of the market. A rudimentary understanding of the Elliott wave theory and Fibonacci retracements al
Timing The Market With COTS by Alex Roslin
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:5 (34-37): Timing The Market With COTS by Alex Roslin Who says you can't time trades using the Commitments of Traders reports? This COTS-based mechanical system beat the NASDAQ by 728 percentage points -- with only one trade ne
Timing The Market With Distribution
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Spotting distribution can help you spot stress fractures in the current uptrend and avoid losses.
Timing The Market With Pairs Logic
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Fundamentally different strategies, drawing from a broad set of markets, will offer better risk protection during times of market stress than any one strategy, regardless of the markets selected for the portfolio. In this article, you will get an overvie
Timing The Market With Walter Deemer
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Walter Deemer began his Wall Street career as a Merrill Lynch research trainee in 1963 and moved into their market analysis department in 1964, where he worked directly under technician Robert Farrell. He has been a full-time market analyst ever since.
Timing The Stock Market With A Discount/T-Bill Spread by Nelson Freeburg and Charles Skelley
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Timing The Stock Market With A Discount/T-Bill Spread by Nelson Freeburg and Charles Skelley Building on a February 1990 article by Jay Kaeppel, ""Formula Research"" report editor Nelson Freeburg and engineer/investor Charles Skelley introduce a stock m
Top Down Investing with S&P's Sam Stovall by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...INTERVIEW Top Down Investing with S&P's Sam Stovall Some wander onto Wall Street by mistake, while others seem destined to find their way there. Sam Stovall is a member of Standard & Poor's Investment Policy Committee, editor of S&P's Industry Reports
Tracking Gold With Elliott and Gann
Trade Breakouts And Retracements With TMV
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Making good trading decisions involves finding indicators that cut through the market noise. But how do you do it without collapsing under the weight of information?
Trade Patterns With The Trend
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Chart patterns are both a reflection of volatility and market psychology, which can offer easy entry points in the direction of the market.
Trade Sector Funds With Pure Momentum by Jay Kaeppel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trade Sector Funds With Pure Momentum by Jay Kaeppel In the July 1999 Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES, I wrote about one of the systems I use to trade Fidelity Select sector funds. That system was referred to as the relative strength system (
Trade With Moving Averages by Colin Alexander
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trade With Moving Averages by Colin Alexander Behold the moving average. Everyone takes it for granted without really thinking about it. But Colin Alexander, publisher of the Wellspring newsletter and hotline, thinks we should take a closer look. Movin
Trading And Poker Parallels by Don Bright with Darren Clifford
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:3 (44-45): Trading And Poker Parallels by Don Bright with Darren Clifford Risk? Yes. Reward? Of course. But the similarities go deeper. A couple of months ago, I was asked about the similarities between stock trading and what
Trading Commodities With Candlesticks
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's a trading setup that will stop you from being shaken out of your positions, especially on longer-term time frames.
Trading Companies With Split Personalities by Anthony Trongone
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When the regular trading session gains momentum, is the market more likely to produce additional gains? Here's how the companies in the QQ Q Q perform during regular trading sessions versus overnight trading sessions. Although seven years have p
Trading Confidently With Todd Gordon
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Todd Gordon is the founder of TradingAnalysis.com, which provides actionable market analysis and trading strategies in the currency, commodity, and equity markets for amateur and professional traders. In 2001, Gordon began his career trading the equities
Trading Futures With Scott Slutsky
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Scott Slutsky has more than 30 years' experience in the futures industry. For 20 years he was a currency trader and broker at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. In addition to trading for his own account, he managed and filled orders in various trading pit
Trading In Tempo With TRIX by Jongseon Kim
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading In Tempo With TRIX by Jongseon Kim Make entry and exit decisions using TRIX. For profitable trading, deciding when to buy and when to sell is one piece of the puzzle. But another, perhaps more important piece is deciding when to trade and when
Trading Indexes With The Hull Moving Average by Max Gardner
Trading Like An Insider With Guy Cohen
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Guy Cohen is a leading innovator in financial trading. He is the creator of the options volatility indicator (OVI) and the FlagTrader and OptionEasy trading tools. He is the author of the best-selling trading books The Insider Edge, Options Made Easy, Th
Trading Long-Term Momentum With Price Surges
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading while working full time is a difficult task for the aspiring trader, but if you can spot price surges, you can still achieve higher returns.
Trading Markets With Stochastics by Louis M. Lupo
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Markets With Stochastics by Louis M. Lupo There are many systems for trading these days, some of them good, some not. Here's a reliable pattern for trading markets using stochastic. Of the computerized trading systems and discretionary systems
Trading Momentum With Ken Calhoun
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Ken Calhoun, president of Daytrading University and StockTradingSuccess.com, has provided online training to active traders from more than 32 countries since 1999. He is an internationally published trader who's earned industry awards for his profe
Trading Munibond Funds with Munibond Futures by Dennis Meyers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Munibond Funds With Munibonds Futures by Dennis Meyers, Ph.D. Designing a trading system is simply establishing a set of rules and back-testing them in the market. And there are different approaches and different markets to trade. Here's one exa
Trading News-Driven Events With Option Straddles
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Learn to make huge gains with option straddles where you can control risk, even when market direction is uncertain.
Trading Options With Anthony Saliba by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan & Bruce Faber
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Options With Anthony Saliba by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan & Bruce Faber Anthony J. Saliba began his career trading equity options as an independent market maker at the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) in 1979. Over the next decade, he gained e
Trading Options With Bollinger Bands And The Dual CCI by D.W. Davies
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Options With Bollinger Bands And The Dual CCI by D.W. Davies Combining two classic indicators, the commodity channel index (CCI) and Bollinger bands, can be a potent timing tool for options trading. This author was inspired by John Bollinger's a
Trading Ranges With Moving Averages by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Ranges With Moving Averages by John Sweeney Using simple moving averages may seem like a straightforward approach to trading, but there are subtle techniques that can improve performance. A few months ago, I pointed out that moving averages ar
Trading Rationally With Rob Booker
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Rob Booker is a currency trader, author, and speaker who believes that trading profitably is not easy but can be enjoyable. Nicknamed the "Prime Minister of Pips," he has seen much success in currency trading in past years and continues to trade today. H
Trading SPY 30-Minute Bars With SAR
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In this second part of a two-part article, we look at which combination of performance metrics gives you strategy inputs that produce good trading 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 Signals With Darknet Channels
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How can patterns not be visible to the naked eye when the chart is in front of you? You'll be surprised. Here's a process that identifies such patterns and identifies trading signals.
Trading Stocks With A Cyclical System by Jeffrey O. Katz, Ph.D., with D.L. McCormick
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Stocks With A Cyclical System by Jeffrey Owen Katz, Ph.D., with Donna L. McCormick There may be a tradable pattern in individual stocks and indices. Read about one way to systematically look for and track this cycle. More than a decade ago, w
Trading Stocks With A Cyclical System by Jeffrey O. Katz, Ph.D., with D.L. McCormick
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Stocks With A Cyclical System by Jeffrey Owen Katz, Ph.D., with Donna L. McCormick There may be a tradable pattern in individual stocks and indices. Read about one way to systematically look for and track this cycle. More than a decade ago, w
Trading Stocks With Daylight
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In a sea of equity, it can be next to impossible to spot which stock is about to take off, but using a few simple guidelines can help you spot a stock on the move.
Trading T-bonds with Equivolume by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading T-bonds with Equivolume by Thom Hartle A technician attempts to identify areas of price where supply or demand will affect the value of an item. If your method correctly responds to or forecasts the demand or supply entering the market, you may
Trading The News With Adam Button
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Adam Button is the managing editor of ForexLive, a website devoted to foreign exchange news and analysis. He was previously the chief currency strategist at XForex and has also worked with Intermarket Strategy. Button believes there's an edge in knowing
Trading The S&P With A Neural Network by Jeremy G. Konstenius
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading The S&P With A Neural Network by Jeremy G. Konstenius Here's an example of the steps that one trader took to use a neural network to trade the stock market index futures. Today's technical traders have the opportunity to use sophisticated meth
Trading The Tech Emini With The Leavitt Convolution
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's a trading strategy applied to the emini Nasdaq futures that uses analytical tools based on linear regression rather than traditional ones associated with moving averages. The new indicator presented here has some unusual properties. Read on to fin
Trading Tradeoffs With Risk Vs. Reward by Norman J. Brown
Trading Trends With The Bollinger Bands Z-Test by Jacinta Chan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:3 (46-52): Trading Trends With The Bollinger Bands Z-Test by Jacinta Chan Standard deviation bands are helpful in determining trends. Here, the author develops a trading system based on this idea that yields high returns with
Trading With ARIMA Forecasts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Commodity Trading Risks by Allen D. Hanson Few traders fully realize the risks that they are taking when they make a commitment in the futures market. They have learned all about charts, cycles, fundamentals, and basic trading theory, but when it comes
Trading With An Adaptive Price Zone by Lee Leibfarth
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:9 (28-31): Trading With An Adaptive Price Zone by Lee Leibfarth When the markets are moving sideways, it is difficult to identify the turning points. Here's one indicator that can help you do that. Traders are always looking
Trading With Double Tops And Double Bottoms
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...You can make profitable trades by getting to recognize patterns that tend to repeat. Here's an example of taking trades in the forex market based on double tops and double bottoms, with confirmation from Bollinger Bands
Trading With Emotions
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...This past few weeks saw tremendous market fluctuation because of Michael Flynn, and also because of a vote in the American Senate on a tax bill.
Trading With Fibonacci
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Though the mathematician known as "Fibonacci" composed his major work back in the 13th century, his concepts are a popular component of chart reading today. Find out how you could be using Fibonacci tools on your charts and in your trading to help take s
Trading With Open Interest by John Boere
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading With Open Interest by John Boere Analyzing the open interest of equities can provide insight into the direction of the market. Find out why the expiration price is being manipulated, how it can be calculated, and how you can trade it. Open inte
Trading With Price-Action Pivots
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Pivot points have long been used by traders to identify entry & exit signals. Here's an effective technique that integrates classic candlestick pivot patterns with other indicators
Trading With Stochastic RSI
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...There are many indicators out there and finding one that suits you can be not that easy.
Trading With The ADX
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Markets do not always trend. Sometimes they are range bound and as a result the tools which will be most suitable for analysis in these types of market differ from those that are useful in a trending market. A popular tool that is helpful in determining
Trading With The Directional Ratio by John Jay Norris
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading With The Directional Ratio by John "Jay" Norris Whether you trade long term, short term, or intermediate term, you need to know the direction of the trend. Here's a simple way to find out. If you are an active trader, or if you manage traders,
Trading With The Heikin-Ashi Candlestick Oscillator by Sylvain Vervoort
Trading With The Major Players
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...If you want to profit big in the market, then make sure that you are trading along with the major players.
Trading With The True Strength Index by William Blau
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading With The True Strength Index by William Blau The true strength index, which was introduced late last year in these pages, may be considered to be a cross between a relative strength indicator and a moving average convergence/divergence indicator
Trading With Trendlines
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Confused about market direction? Try a trendline to help you see things as they really are.
Trading With Volume Profile by Sam Whitehill
Trading with ARIMA and stochastics
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A modification of Wilder's directional movement system by Thomas P. Drinka and Steven L. Kille In his New Concepts in Technical Trading Systems (Copyright 1978) J. Welles Wilder Jr. introduced his directional movement system with the following: ""Direc
Trading with Elliott Wave and Gann by David Lamarr
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading with Elliott Wave and Gann by David Lamarr Wave confusion. This is the best way to describe my introduction to the Elliott Wave Principle more than four years ago. I read the books, started keeping an hourly chart updated by hand and had reasona
Trading with Gann lines by David Lamarr
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading with Gann lines by David Lamarr Gann lines, although only a small part of W. D. Gann's methods, provide an effective, straightforward way of determining support and resistance areas and times when to expect a change in trend. They can be thought
Trading with Steidlmayer by Ellen C. Williams
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading with Steidlmayer by Ellen C. Williams Talking with J. Peter Steidlmayer about the commodities markets is different than talking with any other trader in the game. Bonds, soybeans, grains and currencies are metaphors that define Steidlmayer's wa
Trading with a Variable Position Size by Tom O'Malley
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading With A Variable Position Size by Tom O'Malley Once a position has been put on, some traders will hold it at a constant size throughout the life of the trade, while other traders will vary the size. Which is better? Once a trade has been initiat
Trading with the Cup-with-Handle by Gregory Kuhn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V.13:07 (292-297): Trading with the Cup-with-Handle by Gregory Kuhn Here are some more nuances for trading stocks based on the charting pattern called the cup-with-handle pattern introduced by William O'Neil. How much would you pay for a trading syst
Traveliing With A Research Team Can Be Rewarding
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Looking for ways to spice up your vacation, click here.
Trend Alert! With The CCI by Martin Boot
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trend Alert! With The CCI by Martin Boot The trend is your friend -- or is it? How do you know when a trend has turned against you? There are only so many indicators that can alert you. Among them, one of the most helpful is the commodity channel index
Trend Analysis Made Easy With Candlestick Signals
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...What are candlesticks telling you? Candlestick signals can identify price reversals, producing simple methods to analyze market trends and doing so accurately.
Trend Switching With ETFs
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Given the volatility in the markets, you need to know when to get into a trade and when to get out. The use of ETFs has made this easier. Find out how.
Trend Tracking With Elliott Wave
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Can you use Elliott wave theory to investment success?
Trend Tracking With Elliott Wave
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Can you use Elliott wave theory to investment success?
Trend Trading With Flag Patterns
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trade with the trend during breakouts without suffering false starts or volatile price swings with bullish flag patterns.
Trend-Following With The ADX by Martin Boot
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trend-Following With The ADX by Martin Boot Have you ever been interested in a system, but weren't quite sure how it worked? Here's a simple and robust trend-following system using the ADX, with only one entry condition and one exit condition. To desi
Two Patterns At Play With The January Effect And The Presidential Cycle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Two patterns at play could take the market higher despite current shifts under way if you know what they are.
Uncovering The Layers With Jea Yu
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Jea Yu is cofounder of UndergroundTrader.com, a virtual trading desk and trader education site. Yu is the author of several books and videos on trading, including his latest, Way Of The Trade. We spoke with him about how the markets have changed since he
Understanding Price Movement With Fausto Pugliese
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Fausto Pugliese is the CEO of Cyber Trading University, which he founded in 1995. Pugliese began his career on Wall Street as a stockbroker and was one of the first independent traders to take advantage of the Direct Access Trading technology boom that s
Updating Option Ratios With Market Sentiment by James P. Martin
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Updating Option Ratios With Market Sentiment by James P. Martin Is it true that market sentiment indicators no longer work? That's the word from many traders and market timing advisors in the past several months. They say that so many ""pseudo contraria
Using Bollinger Bands With Parabolic SAR
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Parabolic stop and reverse used in conjunction with Bollinger bands work well to catch a trend. Here's how.
Using Bollinger Bands With The VIX
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Bollinger Bands are a brilliant tool that can be used to identify reversals, so using them with the VIX makes sense
Using ETF Momentum Strategies With Les Masonson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Leslie N. Masonson is president of Cash Management Resources, a financial consulting firm that he founded in 1987. Masonson's 44-year career has spanned trading, investing, financial advisory services, bank operations management, teaching, and corporate
Using Intermarket Analysis With Exchange Traded Funds
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Previously, Matt Blackman explained how using intermarket analysis can help traders survive the rocky waters of today's market. This time, he suggests using intermarket analysis with exchange traded funds and gain another advantage.
Using Money Flow To Stay With The Trend by Markos Katsanos
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V. 22:6 (40-51): Using Money Flow To Stay With The Trend by Markos Katsanos Avoid impending disasters and stay on the right side of the trend with the volume flow indicator. In their classic Technical Analysis Of Stock Trends, Robert Edwards and John M
Using Oscillators With On-Balance Volume by Carl F.Ehrlich
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using Oscillators With On-Balance Volume by Carl F.Ehrlich On-balance volume, which was developed by technician Joe Granville in the 1960s, was the first technical study to project market price movement using volume. In the following decades, other tech
Using Protective Stops To Help With Entries
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Sometimes people will say that the reason that they will no longer use protective sell stops is because when they have used them in the past, their stops will invariably get touched, taking them out of the trade, just before the stock reverses. It is li
Using Statistics with Trading Systems J.Katz, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using Statistics With Trading Systems: by Jeffrey Owen Katz, Ph.D., and Donna L. McCormick In part 1, Katz and McCormick looked at the underpinnings of how statistics can help the trader determine the feasibility of a system. This month, in part 2, they
Utility ETFs: Power Up With Dividend Payers?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Investing in our infrastructure power is critical to our daily lives. Without adequate energy, our country would grind to a halt. Conservative investors may want to invest a portion of their funds in this defensive sector for capital appreciation and div
Volatility With Prices And VIX
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stock market volatility is high, as we can see with a chart of the S&P 500 or with the volatility index.
Volume Analysis With The SPY
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When something is trading at or close to its all-time highs, you need to know whether to sell it or continue holding it. Viewing the markets in terms of supply & demand areas is one way to do it
Voting With Multiple Timeframes
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Sometimes, traditional indicators can be used with new techniques. This technique uses a traditional oscillator with multiple timeframes and a voting process to create a new indicator that displays values for buying and selling pressure
Walk Forward With the Xau Bond Fund System by Dennis Meyers, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Walk Forward With the Xau Bond Fund System by Dennis Meyers, Ph.D. The system developer has various optimization techniques to choose from. Here, Contributing Editor Dennis Meyers updates his previous work using the walk-forward optimization method. P
Walter Industries, With Buying Based On The Long-Term View
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...As this stock moves out of a long-term base, shareholders may enjoy long-term profits from this diversified company.
Water ETFs: Go With The Flow Or Not?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Water is a lifesaver around the world and will always be an essential and critical element of our lives and the planet's survival. Some investors may wish to consider adding a small position of one of these ETFs to their portfolio Since two of these ETFs
West Marine Moves On With Bullish Mood
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Downtrend ends for West Marine, with three white soldiers formed on three black days for US indexes.
What Has October Got To Do With The Bailout?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...September is known as the month the market usually slows down, and October is known as the month for drama. What does a Gann chart say?
What Is It With Barnes & Noble?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...What's going on with the nation's largest traditional bookseller, which reported fiscal first-quarter results today?
What Is It With Gold?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A reader of Traders.com applied the cycle strategy I used of previous articles (Nasdaq And Cycles of December, 2002) to the London Gold price, and emailed it to me for comment. Below is my analysis.
What's (Not) Up With Biotechs?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In Q1-2104, biotech companies are up nearly 15% YTD. But they were up nearly 35%. What happened?
What's The Problem With Cannabis Stocks?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...For the last year cannabis stocks can't seem to do anything right. They have mostly been on a decline with some stocks losing 50% and more of their valuations from their 2018 peaks. This article will take a look at one such stock, Canopy Growth Corp
What's Up With Amazon?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...AMZN stock has been on fire since bottoming in November 2008. But the same can't be said for revenues and earnings. So why has the stock soared?
What's Up With Apple?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...AAPL stock looked like it was ready to bottom in early March 2013, but then the picture changed. So what's next for this troubled tech?
What's Up With Apple?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Barclays Bank cut their target for Apple shares from $121 to $115 last week.
What's Up With Canadian Natural Resources?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...January wasn't a great month for US stocks but this resource company has strongly outperformed since the beginning of 2014. In this article we examine what's behind this strength.
What's Up With Cisco Systems?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A triangle formation bodes well for higher prices in the near-term for Cisco.
What's Up With EVC?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...It isn't often that a $6 stock exhibits a combination of a bullish chart pattern and strong fundamentals. Here's one that has both.
What's Up With Lucent?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Lucent Technologies (LU) bottomed on October 11, 2002 at 0.55 cents. Since that time it bounced up as high as $2.75 on May 29, 2003. Of course, all equities have come way off of the bottom, but some, like Lucent, have taken their time to form consolida
What's Up With The Intermarket Disconnect?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks continued to ignore the usual September perils to mid-month. But here is another indication that not all is going swimmingly in global markets.
What's Up With These Big Rallies?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The March 24 rally made history. But does it or others like it, mean the worst is over?
What's Wrong With Microsoft?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Microsoft reports good numbers. The share price rises, but then drops. Why?
When To Trade With Cycles by John F. Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:4 (32-34): When To Trade With Cycles by John F. Ehlers When should you trade the cycle mode in a market and when should you trade the trend mode? Find out with this indicator. In theory, trading with cycles is easy -- just buy
Will EM Catch Up With US Markets Amid Trade Optimism?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Ongoing US-China trade optimism has not given emerging markets the lift that Wall Street has enjoyed. But could that be about to change?
Winning With Failure by Christopher Narcouzi
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Winning With Failure by Christopher Narcouzi Believe it or not, you can take advantage of failed patterns and profit handsomely. Have you ever bought a stock after it broke through the resistance line, only to see the price drop a few days later? Have
Winning With The Underdogs
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Can picking last year's losers actually make you money?
With Abercrombie & Fitch, Keeping It Between The Lines
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's a look at an attractive short option strangle setup now taking shape on Abercrombie & Fitch's weekly chart.
With BMC Software, Successful Test Of Gap Support
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Will shares of BMC Software follow through, rising in the wake of a successful test of gap support?
With CERN, A Powerful Price And Volume Breakout
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When a stock breaks higher on big volume -- and during a major bull run in the broad market -- chances are the smart money has found a new home in which to invest their trading capital.
With CISG, Sell A Call, Ensure A Trade?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...CNinsure, Inc., a growing force in China's property/casualty and life insurance industry group, has been performing well in recent months. Savvy traders may be able to squeeze even more profits, now that the stock has cleared a recent weekly swing h
With DE, Daily Buy Signal Within Large Weekly Wedge
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Deere & Co. has just flashed a short-term buy signal, even as a major wedge pattern appears to be close to resolution.
With Family Dollar, The New Highs Keep Arriving
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In a tough economy, the dollar stores tend to increase their market share -- and the price of their respective stocks as well.
With Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF, The Downtrend Continues
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...There are no indications of a reversal; bad news and the generally negative sentiment could bring prices excessively lower.
With IEO, Calculated Bet On A Technical Rally
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...With crude oil off by $100 since its all-time high and natural gas cut in half, some technicians believe a technical relief rally is all but inevitable for the energy sector.
With IWM, A Big Head And Shoulders Pattern
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...It's a bit sloppy and definitely not a textbook-quality example, but a bearish head & shoulders pattern has been slowly grinding toward completion on IWM's daily chart.
With IWM, Russell Selloff Looms Large
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Is the mid-spring selloff finally here? One simple trading system may have the answer.
With IWM, Small Caps Ready To Tumble Again?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A very reliable MetaStock expert advisor is suggesting that the Russell 2000 index has the potential to face more downside in the next week or two, at the very least.
With JP Morgan Chase, Is Big Money Dumping Big Bank Stocks?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...JP Morgan Chase shares keep getting hammered, and June 15's new sell signal hints at even more downside for the banking giant.
With Man Or Machine, Which Trades More Effectively?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...While it's tempting to call significant market turns all by yourself, in many cases a well-developed mechanical trading system can do the job with more reliability and consistency than any human can.
With Motorola, Sloppy Topping Presents Trading Opportunity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In a down market, short trades offer profits to offset the losing long trades.
With RMO Sell Signals, Current Selloff To Continue
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...With 17% of the S&P 500 component stocks flashing new RMO swing sell signals, there can be little doubt that the broad US markets have put in a significant weekly high.
With Rubicon Minerals, More Gains Possible
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...It can be intimidating to buy a stock that's already made a major run higher, but sometimes it's worth the discomfort.
With Russell 2000, Fibonacci Time Zone Nails Turn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Just like the circus, the stock market features a "big top." Here's a look at the next likely stopping places for the Russell 2000 index as this reversal unfolds.
With Shares Of Twitter Nearing Support Is It Time To Give It A Second Look?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Shares of Twitter (TWTR) closed on May 2, 2016 near support after several days of heavy selling. Is it now time to give the shares a second look for a possible long play?
With Tesoro, Buy The Strongest Stocks On The Dips?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The S&P 500 may have already made an enduring, multimonth high, but the permabears are likely disgusted with the very slow rate of descent in the broad US markets. Here's a quick look at the top relative strength stock in the .SPX, for those con
With The Transports, Resistance In Multiple Time Frames
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...As the spotlight focuses on the Dow Jones industrials making new highs above 10,000, the transports have underperformed as they continue to sidestep, remaining range bound. The transports are colliding with overhead resistance on the daily chart, while s
With Trading Systems, Patience Pays Off
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...It's been said that most traders will abandon an otherwise sound mechanical trading system after only three consecutive losing trades. Those who subscribe to such faulty reasoning usually miss out on the large gains available once the system finally
With Urban Outfitters, A Pop Due Before Christmas?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...This stock had been consolidating for six weeks until December 13. Will this latest bullish breakout attempt soon drive the stock back into the $30 range again?
With Wilder's ParaSar System, Simpler Is Better
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Looking for a trading methodology that takes away much of the stress of pulling the trigger? J. Welles Wilder's unique ParaSar system might be just what you're looking for.
Working Money: Beat The Markets With McNeel And Lynch by James Maccaro
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Working Money: Beat The Markets With McNeel And Lynch by James Maccaro Two viewpoints, both resulting in spectacular gains. W. McNeel was one of the leading writers about the stock market during the boom years of the 1920s. From 1912 to 1922, he was th
Working Money: Continuation Triangles With Fibonacci Targets by J. Mark Kinoff
Working Money: Daytrading With The NYSE Tick Indicator by Larry Swing
Working Money: Follow The Market Herd With Elliott Wave by Ryan Henry
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Does this sound familiar? You spend countless hours analyzing a company's financial strength, market position, and industry potential. You decide that everything is on the up and up, and that the company deserves a place in your investment
Working Money: Forecasting With Elliott Wave Theory by Eric Morgan
Working Money: Market Timing With Candlesticks by Steve Bigalow
Working Money: May Price And Volume Be With You by Tim Ord
Working Money: Speculating With The 10-Bagger by Thomas Maskell
Working Money: Stay In The Market With Stop-And-Reverse by Rudy Teseo
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Working Money: Stay In The Market With Stop-And-Reverse by Rudy Teseo If you hate being out of the market, you should take a look at this system. The parabolic time/price system indicator was developed by J. Welles Wilder. Often referred to as paraboli
Working Money: Trading With Trendlines by David Penn
Working Money: Using Intermarket Analysis With Exchange Traded Funds by M. Blackman
Working Money: With Trading Systems, Patience Pays Off by D. W. Pendergast Jr.
Working with the Coppock Curve
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...As traders, we want to find signals for fast, profitable entries and exits, but sometimes it pays to take your time to enter a trade correctly, even when doing so means being subjected to a series of whiplash trades. The eventual pay off might make it wo
WorkingMoney: Swing Trading With Trendlines by Phillip S. Duke, Ph.D.
Wrapping Moving Averages With Ribbons
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Most traders apply moving averages to detect price trends. Here's one way you can apply several moving averages at a time to better identify turning points, continuations, extreme highs and lows, and trading ranges.
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