Article Archive For APR2023
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Just Ignore Them
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...To avoid whipsaw trades, traders smooth the market data to get better and less-frequent trading signals. But smoothing filters have drawbacks, such as introducing lag. Here is an effective solution, and it's simpler than you might expect...
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Repatriation
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders are always looking for tradable patterns in the data. Here is a pattern used by currency traders that you may not have heard of and that could provide an edge...
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Mining Patent Documents For Trading Ideas
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Did you know that patent documents can be a good source of trading ideas for stocks, options, and bonds? It may be an opportunity to gain a trading edge from publicly available information. Find out how you may be able to find and use some of the information...
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Trading GLD In The Age Of Zero Commission Part 1
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Come follow along on a quest to discover profitable trading rules you can use, based on a few technical indicators. In this two-article series focusing on two different markets, we'll conceptualize some strategies and technical trading rules, test them, and then compare the results. Here in part 1, the focus is on trading a popular gold market ETF...
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Interview: A Conversation With John Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...After four decades of providing products, services, and education to traders through his company, MESA Software, John F. Ehlers has announced his retirement. Ehlers, a Contributing Editor to STOCKS & COMMODITIES since nearly the magazine's launch, is a pioneer in the use of cycles and digital signal processing (DSP) technical analysis. Formerly, he was an engineering fellow for Raytheon. Kevin Davey interviewed him to discuss his trading and analysis approach, his thoughts on where quantitative financial analysis is heading, and his long and meaningful contribution to the fields of technical a...
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The "Day Drop" Pattern
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Here is a price pattern you may not have heard of that you can use as a trade filter to improve system performance. In this article, we'll step through the process of writing some code to develop a trading strategy, we'll test adding some rules and conditions--including the filtering of trades using this price pattern--and we'll review the resulting system performance metrics...
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Average True Range Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The ATR was originally designed to indicate when daily ranges are increasing or decreasing. Here, we show you how you can use the indicator to spot upside breakouts...
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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: Commodity Speculators...
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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: ChatGPT...
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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...
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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: Look To Exploit Pricing And Market Inefficiencies (Or, How I Apply Trading Methodologies To Antiques On Ebay)...
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Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is John Ehlers' article in this issue, "Just Ignore Them". Here, we present the April 2023 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
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Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: The Breakout Trading Revolution: One Proven Trading Formula, Endless Strategies, And How To Attain Ultimate Trading Freedom; Algorithm Trading 101: Trading Made Simple For Everyone, Second Edition; Build Your Wealth And Keep Your Health; J.k. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2023: For Preparing Your 2022 Tax Return...
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Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: CMT Symposium April 26-29, 2023, 50-Year Anniversary Of The CMT Association...
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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...