Article Archive For JUL2026

  • How Does A 1989 Sector Timing Model Hold Up 35 Years Later?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Martin-McCann RS oscillator, transplanted here to modern sector ETFs with no changes to its core signal logic, still has a pulse--and delivers some genuinely surprising lessons about what ages well and what doesn't...

  • Exiting The Trade: How To Avoid Being The Greater Fool

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Exiting a trade before the top in a major rally is ideal in trading. Here's a test of various scenarios in search of the best approach for knowing when to exit, using recent action in the silver and crude oil markets...

  • Emerging Markets And Hidden Opportunities: Developing A Strategy On The @MME Futures Contract

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Can a simple trend-following strategy be developed for the MSCI market? Here's a look at testing for whether the necessary conditions are present...

  • The Two-Step Adjusting Iron

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For advanced option traders, here's a look at a sophisticated technique for adjusting a short iron condor option position...

  • Interview: A Conversation With Milton W. Berg

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Milton W. Berg, CFA, is CEO and chief investment strategist for MB Advisors, LLC. Berg's 47-year career spans both fundamental and technical disciplines. Initially influenced by Benjamin Graham, he evolved from value investing into becoming a technical strategist, later developing a proprietary system named Turning Point Analysis. Berg's methodology is intensely data-driven, employing a proprietary system tracking more than 30,000 indicators across 2,000 models. We interviewed Milton Berg via email in March 2026...

  • Prompting The Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Learning to construct structured prompts for generative AI will not only improve your AI results, it will also improve your framework for systematic thinking. With the help of some simple Python coding, you can more easily transform your ideas into a testable process. Here's how to get started...

  • Why Non-Price Information Is Essential For Systematic Traders

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Focus less on finding perfect signals and more on avoiding unfavorable conditions...

  • 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: Market Sanity...

  • 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: AI Myths...

  • The Savvy Technician

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Recognizing and applying technical chart patterns to trading. This month: Remember That The Market Does Not Care About You...

  • Traders' Tips

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Gaetano Di Prima & Fabio Baruffa's article in the May 2026 issue, "Market Regime Identification Using Trend, Volatility, And Credit Conditions." Here, we present the July 2026 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...

  • 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...