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• Volume Confirmation For A Trend System

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Volume flows help to validate trending and even nontrending price movements. This study presents an updated trend-following trading system based on combining the ADX with the trend thrust indicator and volume price confirmation indicator...

AUTHOR: Buff Pelz Dormeier, CMTDATE: AUG2024SUBJECT: Trading Systems

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• Theory Versus Reality

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Are your expectations in line with reality? Here's a look at some traditional market beliefs and whether such scenarios tend to play out as expected...

AUTHOR: Perry J. KaufmanDATE: AUG2024SUBJECT: Traders' Notebook

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• Indicators On The Test Bench: Which Price Channel Method Is Most Effective For Trading?

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Let's put some popular and useful tools to the test head-to-head to see what may work best for different futures markets...

AUTHOR: Andrea UngerDATE: AUG2024SUBJECT: Indicators

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• Writing Covered Calls Part 2: Opportunities For Option Sellers

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Last time in part 1, we looked at using the option strategy of writing covered calls, including what to consider when you go to write (sell) a covered call. This time, we look at some ways to implement and structure your covered call writes, and consider uses for this popular instrument that you may not have thought of...

AUTHOR: John DevcicDATE: AUG2024SUBJECT: Options Trading

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• Smoothed Heikin-Ashi: Advancing A Classic Trading Tool For Crypto Trading

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Heikin-ashi translates to average bar in Japanese. The smoothed heikin-ashi is an approach to charting that can lead to better outcomes for your cryptocurrency trading. Find out how...

AUTHOR: Azeez MustaphaDATE: AUG2024SUBJECT: Cryptocurrency Trading

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• Augmenting Financial Analysis With Artificial Intelligence

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Need a little demystification on how AI is being applied to the financial field? Here's a quick look at some features of AI and its transformative potential for collaboration between humans and machines in market analysis...

AUTHOR: Diana Wolf TorresDATE: AUG2024SUBJECT: Artificial Intelligence

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• The Schannep And Sahm Recession Indicators

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Getting ahead of the next recession can set you up for profitable trading opportunities. But how do you detect when a recession arrives? One indicator in the news recently is the Schannep recession indicator, and it's easy to calculate. A related indicator is the Sahm rule. Here's how to put them to use...

AUTHOR: Gregory AharonianDATE: AUG2024SUBJECT: Economic Indicators

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• 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: Copper correlation...

AUTHOR: Carley GarnerDATE: AUG2024SUBJECT: Futures Trading

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• 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: Iron condors for income...

AUTHOR: Jay KaeppelDATE: AUG2024SUBJECT: Options Trading

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• 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: Realistic expectations...

AUTHOR: Kevin J. DaveyDATE: AUG2024SUBJECT: Algo Trading

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• The Savvy Technician

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Recognizing and applying technical chart patterns to trading. This month: Deconstructing the Hindenburg omen...

AUTHOR: Stella Osoba, CMTDATE: AUG2024SUBJECT: Chart Patterns

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• 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: Trendlines: Do they work?...

AUTHOR: Emilio TomasiniDATE: AUG2024SUBJECT: Trading

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• Strategy Corner

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Got a question about using trading strategies? Dave Mabe has 25 years of experience in trading strategy development. With a background as a computer engineer and chief technology officer for Trade-Ideas, he is interested in the design of innovative algorithms for rules-based trading systems as well as the intersection of artificial intelligence and finance. This month: The hidden cost of taking partial profits...

AUTHOR: Dave MabeDATE: AUG2024SUBJECT: Trading Strategies

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• Traders' Tips

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Buff Pelz Dormeier's article in this issue, "Volume Confirmation For A Trend System." Here, we present the August 2024 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...

AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: AUG2024SUBJECT: Traders' Tips code

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• 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...

AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: AUG2024SUBJECT: Futures