Article Archive For JAN2023
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Boost Your Strategy Development Part 2: The SMAC Optimizer
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading strategies usually involve adjustable parameters, and trading strategy development involves optimizing those parameters to find the best inputs and variables for the most profitable results. Here is a look at using the SMAC optimizer algorithm for the optimization of trading strategies...
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Matching The Markets To Your Trading Style
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders can choose to use a trend-following method or a mean-reversion method depending on the market, but how can you tell when and where to apply each? Here's a way you can know...
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True Range Adjusted Exponential Moving Average (TRAdj EMA)
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Combine some classic indicators in this unique way and you will get buy and sell signals to consider using while in the presence of strong trends...
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Interview: A Conversation With Peter Eliades
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Peter Eliades has been offering stock market cycle analysis for half a century. His analysis identifies key short- and long-term market highs and lows. He published the Stock Market Cycles newsletter for 36 years. He currently offers subscribers a nightly video commentary explaining his market projections, covering the three major market averages, S&P and NDX futures, gold, and Bitcoin, as well as select individual stocks and commodities as requested by users. His projection techniques are offered in the Eliades Cycle Price Projections app, which calculates short- and long-term cycle price pro...
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The Metaverse's Rosy Future Lies Ahead, Or Does It?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...In newer technology spaces such as the "metaverse", investors need to consider whether they want to get in near the ground floor or take a "wait and see" approach to find out if the technology truly takes off. Here's a close look at ETFs related to the metaverse industry to help you consider whether any of these recently launched ETFs deserve a place in your portf...
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Swing Trading 52-Week Low Pivots
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Here is a trading technique based on a pivot pattern that buys following a 52-week low support level...
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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: SOFR Futures...
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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: A Portfolio Of Strategies...
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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: Organizing Your Approach With The PROVEST Method...
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The Savvy Technician
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Recognizing and applying technical chart patterns to trading. This month: Do Not Invest In The Present...
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Trading Perspectives
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: Trade Not What You See, But What Will Be. This Is The Way For 2023...
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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: Indicators--Can't Live With 'Em, Can't Live Without 'Em...
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Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Vitali Apirine's article in this issue, "True Range Adjusted Exponential Moving Average (TRAdj EMA)". Here, we present the January 2023 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...