Article Archive For APR2024
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The Ultimate Smoother
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...First, we introduced you to a super smoother. Here, we introduce an ultimate smoother. It's an advancement you won't want to miss...
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The Sentiment Flow Index: Confusion Or A Conviction Indicator?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Introducing a new indicator to filter the signal from the noise...
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Testing And Validating A Trading Model
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stress tests? Scenario tests? Out-of-sample backtests? Monitoring? Paper trading? How can you decide a trading system is worthy of using? Last time, we presented the N-CAMA model, and tests were favorable. Has it generated profits on live data? Here's a look at backtesting and live-testing the N-CAMA trading model...
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Determining Risk Before It Happens
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Assessing the risk of being in the markets is a topic that always looms large with investors. What are some ways to calculate and assess it, and what place should each method have in your work? Here's a look at the most important and commonly used measures of risk, and considerations for how you might use each...
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Interview: A Conversation With Andrea Unger
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Andrea Unger is a full-time professional trader, president of Unger Academy, and author of The Unger Method (2021). He is a four-time World Trading Champion (2008, 2009, 2010, and 2012), an honorary member of SIAT (Italian Society of Technical Analysis, a branch of IFTA), and he speaks throughout Europe, America, Australia, and Asia. The Unger Academy works to help traders learn to implement a systematic way of trading and to improve their approach to trading. It offers education, research, trading strategies, and guidance. Stocks & Commodities interviewed Andrea Unger to find out how he becam...
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Overnight Trading In QQQ
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...They say the early bird gets the worm, but in the case of some trading opportunities, does the night owl reap the rewards? Here's a study to test the hypothetical profitability of trading one market's overnight session...
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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: 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: Don't Ignore Extremes...
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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: Covered Call Writing...
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The Savvy Technician
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Recognizing and applying technical chart patterns to trading. This month: The Put/Call Ratio For Market Breadth And Sentiment...
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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: System Traders And Discretionary Traders, And The Gulf In Between...
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Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is John F. Ehlers' article in this issue, "The Ultimate Smoother." Here, we present the April 2024 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
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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...