Article Archive For SEP2018

  • Weekly & Daily Stochastics

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Indicators play a big role in a technical trader's life. They act as a GPS to help you navigate around price movements. But there's no one way to use them. Here's how you can combine two stochastic oscillators and use them with moving averages and support/resistance levels to help identify corrections and trend reversals...

  • The V-Trade Part 7: Technical Analysis--V-Wave Count

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Counting waves in price charts doesn't have to be complex. In this seventh part of a multipart series of articles, we consider a method that simplifies the art of counting waves so you can make more successful trades. Find out how...

  • The Truth Behind PEG

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The computation of the PEG ratio is so seemingly simple and yet is often reported in different ways, sometimes unbeknownst to the user. Let's look at how PEG should be calculated and why...

  • Double Bottoms Revisited

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Chart patterns are often thought of as subjective, but there are ways to look at them objectively. Here, we evaluate the double-bottom pattern to see how reliable it is...

  • 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. Although he has developed strategies for different trading styles, his affinity is for breakout trading systems and market internals. His personal blog at www.SystemsOnTheRoad.com contains some practical posts with tips, videos, and a free breakout strategy...

  • Optimize Your Mind For Analysis

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...What do self-confidence, classification, and gossip have to do with technical analysis? Let's take a look at trading and investing from a psychology perspective to find out...

  • Product review: SlopeOfHope.com

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Every era, when in full swing, is defined not only by its innovations, technologies, and productive output, but also by its forms of decadence...

  • Small-Cap Growth ETFs In The Spotlight

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Are you interested in learning more about using exchange traded funds (ETFs) in your trading? Leslie N. Masonson, an active ETF trader, is president of Cash Management Resources, a financial consulting firm that focuses on ETF strategies. He is the author of Buy-Don't Hold: Investing With ETFs Using Relative Strength To Increase Returns With Less Risk; and All About Market Timing, as well as Day Trading On The Edge. His website is www.buydonthold.com, where he writes a weekly blog. To submit topics for future columns, reach him at lesmasonson@yahoo.com...

  • Two-Day-High Cup Breakouts

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Bullish cup patterns often continue upward. Here are two technical entry signals to look for...

  • Q&A

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Confused about some aspect of trading? Professional trader Rob Friesen, president & COO of Bright Trading (www.stocktrading.com), an equity trading corporation, answers a few of your questions. This month: Seasonality: A Season Begins With A Reason...

  • 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: Hedging With Futures & 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: Hedging With Collars For Your Long Positions...

  • Traders' Tips

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Vitali Apirine's article in this issue, "Weekly & Daily Stochastics." Here, we present the September 2018 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: A Technical Method For Rating Stocks, Code For Technical Stock-Rating Method...

  • Trade News & Products

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: Workshop On DSP And Algorithmic Trading...

  • 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...