Article Archive For JUN2022

  • Ehlers Loops, Part 1

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Introducing a new way to discretionarily predict bullish and bearish moves in the market...

  • Buying Golden Crosses And Selling Death Crosses: Evidence From ETFs

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...It's a well-known concept to buy "golden crosses" and sell "death crosses". But how often does this popular notion hold up in the market? Here's a recent study using a portfolio of ETFs for an updated...

  • Objectively Defining And Measuring Consistency Using Bollinger Bands

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Consistency in trading is more complex than you might think. The first step toward achieving consistent trading results is objectively measuring your performance. But how can you measure it in objective terms? Here's a novel way you may not have thought of...

  • Trend Detection In Highly Liquid Assets

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Here is a way to detect the start of a price trend, also called a "wave". It borrows two basic concepts from numerical calculus--the derivative and the integral--as an approach to filtering wav...

  • Interview: The Brogans Of The Brogan Group Equity Research

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...It's a family affair: Bob Brogan Sr., Terence Brogan, and Rob Brogan Jr. run The Brogan Group Equity Research (BGER), a division of Wellington Shields & Co. The firm offers decades of experience as institutional market technicians, publishing daily research based on money flow and relative performance and providing buy and sell recommendations on stocks, commodities, currencies, and fixed income. We spoke with them about their path to discovering their money flow and relative performance analytics approach to market analysis...

  • The Sniper MACD Trading Strategy

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Here's a daytrading forex strategy that's designed to be hassle-free...

  • Symmetrical Triangles

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Sometimes it's useful to go back to basics to remind ourselves of classic chart patterns that may have receded in importance during the recent bull market but which now seem to pop up with more consistency. One such pattern is the symmetrical triangle...

  • Using Bollinger Bands With The VIX

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Bollinger Bands are a brilliant tool that can be used to identify reversals, so using them with the VIX makes sense...

  • 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: Algorithmic Trading Systems...

  • 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: The Question Of Margin...

  • 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: Butterfly Call Spread? It May Depend On Your Outlook...

  • 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: Stock Selection: Discipline Over Fomo...

  • 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: High-Frequency Trading And Market Making (Part 1)...

  • Traders' Tips

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is John F. Ehlers' article in this issue, "Ehlers Loops, Part 1." Here, we present the June 2022 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...