Contents For FEB2024

  • Trend Identification By Price And Time Filtering

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Minimize the impact of random price movements by using this concise, combined price-and-time filter to identify trends, along with some unique ways to display it all on a chart...

  • 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...

  • The Trend Compression Pattern

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The three-day compression (3DC) pattern can be used to filter trade entries for improved system results. Here, we explain this useful pattern and how to code it, and we show step-by-step how you can design, test, and optimize a trading system with trade filtering...

  • The Most Important Stock Sector To Monitor For Bull And Bear Market Trends

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Want to know one simple gauge the pros use for determining the overall health of the stock market? Find out what to look for...

  • MFITrend: A Daytrading Strategy For Cryptocurrency

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...You can keep your fear, uncertainty, and doubt in check by having a trading strategy in hand that you feel confident using. Here is one example strategy to consider for trading cryptocurriencies based on high readings in the money flow index...

  • Product review: FinancialWisdomTV.com

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...A stock market and investing education portal; a Breakout Scanner tool for stocks; nearly 100 YouTube videos; and "The Strategy: A Proven Stock Trading Strategy", a downloadable PDF fi...

  • 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: Commodity Speculation...

  • 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: Always In The Market...

  • 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: Four-Legged Calendar Spreads...

  • The Savvy Technician

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Recognizing and applying technical chart patterns to trading. This month: Self-Trust Is Self-Empowerment...

  • 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: Automation In Trading: A Real Life Saver (Part 2 Of 2)...

  • Traders' Tips

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Alfred Francois Tagher's article in this issue, "Trend Identification By Price And Time Filtering." Here, we present the February 2024 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...

  • 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...