Article Archive For JUL2023
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Stay On Track With The Supertrend Indicator
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The supertrend indicator combines price and volatility information to help traders stay in tune with the larger trend. Find out how to calculate and use it...
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Looking At Minute-By-Minute Stock Option Data Part 2: Short Margins
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Can retail traders make more money using straddles or strangles than by just buying a call or put? Can retail traders make money using option strategies that include margined short option positions? We explore these questions here using the minute-by-minute option data introduced in part 1...
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Hedging In Swing Trading
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Hedging is a good way to beat the challenge of watching a potential gain slip away. You can use a countertrend trade to hedge. Here's an example using swing trades in cryptocurrencies...
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Interview: A Conversation With Brian Shannon
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Brian Shannon, CMT, has been involved with Wall Street for over three decades. He was lead trader and director of research at MarketWise Securities from 1999 to 2006, where his focus was providing technical analysis training and education to individuals. In 2010 he launched Alphatrends.net, providing stock trading education to traders and swing trading ideas to subscribers. STOCKS & COMMODITIES contributing writer Leslie Masonson interviewed him about his three decades of market experience, his technical trading approach focusing on VWAP and anchored VWAP, his approach to using charts that foc...
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Food And Beverage ETFs: A Satisfying Investing Opportunity Or Gorging On Junk?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Food and beverage ETFs have experienced less volatility than the general market over the years, with the component companies housed in the consumer staples, materials, and industrial sectors. Are these ETFs ready to provide a delectable opportunity or will they languish in the years ahead? Take a look at ten ETFs to see if they offer a portfolio diversification opportunity...
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Wide-Range Gap Continuations
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...A sequence of taller-than-average range candle days can be a technical breakout signal. Here's how to find and use it for a swing trade...
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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 Prices And Inflation...
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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: Too Good To Be True...
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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: Catch A Falling Safe...
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The Savvy Technician
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Recognizing and applying technical chart patterns to trading. This month: Sideways Markets Are Dangerous...
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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: The Turn-Of-The-Month Effect In Equities And Market ETFs...
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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: Before You Can Avoid Noise In Your Data, You First Must Define It...
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Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Barbara Star's article in this issue, "Stay On Track With The Supertrend Indicator." Here, we present the July 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...