Article Archive For NOV2023
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The Monday Effect, Revisited
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stock indexes tend to perform differently on different days of the week. This tendency has delivered trading opportunities to investors over many decades. The "Monday effect" is the best known pattern, but this study demonstrates other patterns exist for other market indexes. Can traders rely on these patterns? Here's an updated lo...
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The Time-Tested Adjustable Moving Average
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...When pursuing profits, the trader must decide which markets and instruments to trade, and then decide which analysis tools to apply to each market. So which technical indicators are best to use with which markets, and which markets offer the best profits? We explore that here...
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Looking At Minute-By-Minute Stock Option Data, Part 3: Alternatives To Black-Scholes
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Many concerns have been expressed over the years about the assumptions made by the Black-Scholes model (and some other option models) with regard to the volatility and continuity in the markets. When trading very short-term option contracts, do the model's assumptions really reflect reality? Here's a look...
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Using ZigZag To Anchor Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP)
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The anchored VWAP is used to confirm trends and identify areas of support and resistance. The anchor adds a specific starting point, factoring in price and volume. Here is a way to automatically locate zigzag highs/lows to use as anchor points...
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The Three Moving Averages Forex Trading Strategy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Here's a trading strategy you can use for trading high-volatility markets such as forex, cryptocurrencies, or stocks. It's based simply on three simple moving averages...
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Interview: A Conversation With Herb Friedman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Herb Friedman manages money using high-yield mutual funds, an investment area not often covered in this magazine. Friedman offers investment advice as an investment advisor representative of Portfolio Medics, an SEC-registered investment advisor. Quantitative analyst, trader, and book author Perry Kaufman interviewed him about his trading style, his areas of market expertise, and his investing philosophy of keeping it simple...
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Ascending Triangle Pivots
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The search for technical entry signals used to find tradable pivots can be a challenge. This month's strategy uses ascending triangles following a sustained downtrend...
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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: Crude Oil Options Now Expire Three Times Per Week; Should Retail Traders Consider Them For Speculation? (Part 2 Of 3)...
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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: Backtest Blues...
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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: An Alternative Straddle...
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Two ETFs Based On IBD Indexes: Do They Live Up To Their Classic Approach?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...IBD is a weekly financial newspaper well-known for its extensive stock market data crunching and top stock rankings. Here, we'll look at two ETFs that use stock-selection strategies developed and made famous by IBD. We'll begin with a review of IBD's history and then analyze the two ETFs, including key metrics and performance, to see how well they put into practice the classic investing themes given to investors by IBD...
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The Savvy Technician
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Recognizing and applying technical chart patterns to trading. This month: Why You Must Trust The Chart And Not Yourself...
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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: What Is Good Financial Information? (Part 1 Of 2)...
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Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Scott Cong's article in the September issue, "VAcc: A Momentum Indicator Based On Velocity And Acceleration". Here, we present the November 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...