Contents For NOV2020

  • A Unified Theory Of The Markets

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...It sounds ambitious, but it's based on a simple premise...

  • Trend Direction And Probability: The Bull Bear Index

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Have you ever thought of defining trend in terms of probability rather than in terms of momentum? Here's a different way to think of trend...

  • Comparing Two Adaptive Trends

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Walk-forward testing and Kaufman's adaptive moving average try to do the same thing, but in very different ways...

  • Applied Technical Analysis Part 3: Advanced Technical Analysis

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Here in part 3 of this series, we'll look at applying more advanced technical analysis to find out how trading signals improve...

  • Interview: Cris Doloc On Data-Driven Trading

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Cris Doloc has two decades of professional experience as a technologist, quant, and academic. His current area of specialty is quantitative and computational finance...

  • Video Gaming And eSports ETFs

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The gaming and esports industry is a very big, lucrative, and growing behemoth in the United States and overseas. The Covid-19 situation has resulted in unexpected revenue surges, skyrocketing stock prices, and possible antitrust investigations. Here's a look at the six ETFs in this industry sector...

  • Trading Head & Shoulders Formations

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...All chartists should be familiar with this chart pattern. Here are a few pointers on ways to get long and short and where alternative exits may be...

  • Swing Trading High-Volume Pivots

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading pivots can be tricky. Here's what will help...

  • Algo Q&A

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Have a question about system or algo trading? Kevin J. Davey is a full-time trader, and has over 25 years of system trading experience. Send your questions or topic suggestions to Kevin Davey at kdavey@kjtradingsystems.com. Selected questions will appear in a future issue of S&C. This month: Use Stop-Losses...

  • Futures For You

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Want to find out how the futures markets really work? DeCarley Trading senior analyst and broker Carley Garner answers your questions about today's futures markets. This month: Micro Emini Options...

  • Explore Your Options

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Got a question about options? Jay Kaeppel has over three decades of experience in the options markets. He was a head trader for a CTA firm, an options trading software developer, and is a portfolio manager for an investment management firm. This month: Bull Call Spread: In-The-Money Or Out-Of-The-Money...

  • Trading Perspectives

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Rob Friesen is a professional trader and president & COO of Bright Trading (www.stocktrading.com), a proprietary trading firm hosting independent trader/members, an online trading school, and utilizing the StockOdds database (www.stockodds.net). This column shares his thoughts and outlooks on trading, locating opportunity, probabilistic outcome, and maintaining perspective throughout industry changes...

  • Traders' Tips

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is F. Arden Thomas' article in the August 2020 issue, "Voting With Multiple Timeframes." Here, we present the November 2020 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...

  • Letters To S&C

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Interview With Jay Kaeppel; 1st And 2nd Cross Strategy--Easylanguage Code...

  • Futures Liquidity

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...