ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...By knowing the risk of being in the market, you can hedge and control portfolio volatility better. Here is a rundown of the most popular ways to evaluate and measure risk, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of each. In the end, you'll find out what's important and how you can use a spreadsheet to assess risk...
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The unified theory of the markets (UTM) model presented previously detects upcoming weakness and strength in the market. Here, we introduce a companion model focused on trend to help determine current trend strength and direction...
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Using a long-term buy & hold approach with the natural gas ETF UNG would almost certainly be a losing proposition. So how can you trade UNG profitably? Let's find out...
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...What industry groups fared best during recessionary periods of the past? Armed with this information, investors can better construct their stock portfolio to weather recessions. Here is a study to point the way...
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Sunny Harris is a full-time trader as well as a programmer, teacher, and consultant to individual and institutional clients. Harris has been a speaker at many conferences and seminars and has made various media appearances over the years. She regularly gave three-day seminars on programming indicators and systems. She has held a CTA certification and CMT membership. Stocks & Commodities Contributing Writer Karl Montevirgen spoke with her to discuss her early entry into the field of technical analysis, programming, and trading, as well as what motivates her to continue with trading to this day...
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Investors can directly participate in the growth and innovation of well-known companies in this everchanging industry by allocating a small position in their portfolio to a communications sector ETF. We will take a closer look at some of those ETFs here...
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Bollinger Bands do an especially good job of visually representing variance, trading range expansion/contraction, and potential trend reversals...
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: Are Micro Crude Oil Options A Viable "Option" For Trader...
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: Full-Time Algo 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: Using The "Collar" Strategy To Hedge Against A Long Stoc...
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Recognizing and applying technical chart patterns to trading. This month: Lessons From Mr. Market...
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: Respond To Market Chaos With Relationship-Based, Hedged 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: What Is Arbitrage And Are There Really No Free Lunches?...
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Vitali Apirine's article in the August 2022 issue, "The Linear Regression-Adjusted Exponential Moving Average". Here, we present the September 2022 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: John Ehlers Mesa Virtual Workshop, Oct. 10-14, 2022; CMT Association 2022 Charles H. Dow Award; Slope Of Hope Animated Yield Curve...
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...