Contents For APR2021

  • Detecting High-Volume Breakouts

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Looking at hundreds of charts for high-volume breakout patterns can be tedious and time-consuming. Here is an indicator that will help identify these patterns in seconds...

  • Swinging NCR

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Here's a breakdown of a recent momentum swing trade--from the initial search for a trade, to reading the chart, to researching the market context, the reasons for the buy, and the reasons for the exit. Was it successful? We find out. (Spoiler alert: It was)...

  • A Simple Forex Trend-Following Strategy

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...A strategy need not be complicated. The strategy given here is for swing trades in the forex market...

  • 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 assets using a fundamentally screened yet technically driven investment process that uses both trend-following and swing trading techniques. S&C Contributing Writer Leslie N. Masonson interviewed Cox to discuss his extensive investment career, portfolio analysis, technical analysis focus, and overall educational efforts...

  • The Time To Short A Stock Is Not When It's In An Uptrend

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...With the madness surrounding stocks like GME, it seems that now is a good time to go over this basic principle of trend trading...

  • 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...

  • Swing Trading Volatile Reversals

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...In this month's column you will learn tips for trading secondary breakouts following the initial big move up and back down...

  • 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: Life On Easy Street...

  • 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: Bitcoin Futures And Options: A Better Way To Speculate In Cryptocurrencies...

  • 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: Benefits Of A Collar Strategy...

  • 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. This month: What Do We Do When Volatility Declines Again...

  • Market Rap

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Unserious" thoughts on serious topics in finance, from Emilio Tomasini, a professional trader and adjunct professor of corporate finance at the University of Bologna in Italy. This month: The Odyssey Of A Still-Struggling Commodity Trade...

  • Traders' Tips

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Markos Katsanos' article in this issue, "Detecting High-Volume Breakouts." Here, we present the April 2021 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...

  • Trade News & Products

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: Neuroshell Trader Adds Tradegate Indicators; Trading Course And Coaching; Extended-Hours Charting, Microsoft Excel Add-In For Data; Live Weekly Webinars...

  • 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...