Article Archive For MAY2023
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Risk, Volatility, & Position Sizing
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...This may be the insight you wish you had gotten when you first started trading, and it's something every trader can benefit from. You can attain a positive skew for your trade outcomes if you start with the correct position size for each trade. Find out how...
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The Inside Bar: The Calm Before The Storm
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Some price patterns can be used to filter trades. Find out what impact the "inside bar" has on some trend-following strategies and how useful this can be. This article includes code to discover inside bar frequency in various markets, and sample code to trade those occurrenc...
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Trading SLV In The Age Of Zero Commission Part 2
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...In this two-article series, some possible trading rules based on a selection of technical indicators are evaluated, and the best three are presented. In part 1, the focus was on trading a popular gold ETF. Here in part 2, the focus is on trading a popular silver ETF...
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Interview: A Conversation With Gail Dudack
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Gail M. Dudack is a well-known and respected technical analyst, investment strategist, market commentator, and writer with a long and distinguished 50-year career on Wall Street. She is a past president of the CMT Association, and was a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts Board of Directors. Since 2011, she has been chief market strategist at Wellington Shields and its Dudack Research Group division. For this interview, we wanted to find out about her five decades of market experience, her technical analysis approach, and her insights as a strategist...
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Travel And Entertainment ETFs: About To Take Off, Or Crash?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Travel and entertainment ETFs offer an opportunity to participate in an industry that has experienced significant disruptions and revenue declines due to the Covid-19 pandemic and its lingering effects. Are they resurging? Here's a look...
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Swingtrading News Breakouts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...One way to take advantage of price action that results from major news headlines is to scan sector or commodity ETFs for trading opportunities when the news is affecting that particular sector or commodity. Here's an example...
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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: Are The Margin Policies At Discount Brokerages Adding To Volatility? (Part 1 Of 2)...
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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: Rollovers: What To Know--And What To Avoid...
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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: A Stock Likely To Make A Move? Consider A Long Straddle...
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The Savvy Technician
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Recognizing and applying technical chart patterns to trading. This month: Trust The Charts, Even When It's Hard...
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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: Applying Some Gaming Theory To Your Swing Trades...
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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: Markets Change, And So Should Your Strategies...
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Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Scott Cong's article in the March issue, "An Adaptive Moving Average For Swing Trading." Here, we present the May 2023 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
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Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Adaptive Moving Average...
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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...