ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...What is the nature of market data? What wisdoms can be gained from studying it? Here is a brief summary of research into the nature of market data, from someone who has spent decades researching it, testing it, and trading it. Included is a technique to detect and demodulate the AM and FM components of cycles, so you can better ensure your timing signals are accurately accounting for the market data...
BY: John F. EhlersSUBJECT: Cycle Analysis
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Does waiting for a pullback when entering a trade improve results, or does that just cause you to miss out on the trade? What about other popular entry methods? Here's a test to find out what may work best...
BY: Perry J. KaufmanSUBJECT: Trading Techniques
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...
BY: Mike B. SirokySUBJECT: Quantitative Analysis
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...AI-related companies and AI-focused ETFs have sprung to life with some ETFs having one-year gains ranging from 54% to 89%. AI will be a driving force in many future advancements, making it a trail blazer in this next advanced industrial revolution. Investors and traders can buy a basket of AI companies and participate in the next industrial revolution using ETFs. We'll take a look at some of them here...
BY: Leslie N. MasonsonSUBJECT: Why Trade ETFs?
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 well as subscription-based ETF research. He works at Marketfield Asset Management LLC building a database to track economic, fundamental, and price statistics, and creates a mechanism through the visualization of the data to alert the portfolio manager and analysts of pertinent changes...
BY: Karl MontevirgenSUBJECT: Interview
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...With the goal of creating a platform that contains everything an active trader needs to make trading decisions, national and international trading champion Rob Hoffman launched WealthCharts to be an affordable web-based platform in January 2020...
BY: Barbara Star, Ph.D.SUBJECT: Product Review
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...In this month's column, we'll look at using the channel formed by the 50 and 200 SMA to help make trading decisions...
BY: Ken CalhounSUBJECT: Trading On Momentum
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: Support (Without Resistance)...
BY: Kevin J. DaveySUBJECT: Algo Trading
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: Is This The Beginning Of A Commodity Super-Cycle...
BY: Carley GarnerSUBJECT: Futures Trading
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: Double Tops...
BY: Jay KaeppelSUBJECT: Options Trading
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...
BY: Rob FriesenSUBJECT: Stock Trading
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: Getting To The Point Where The Rubber Meets The Ro...
BY: Emilio TomasiniSUBJECT: Trading
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is John F. EhlersÕ article in this issue, "A Technical Description Of Market Data For Traders." Here, we present the May 2021 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
BY: Technical Analysis, Inc.SUBJECT: Traders' Tips code
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...
BY: Technical Analysis, Inc.SUBJECT: Futures