2016-03-06 22:59
I have mentioned before that the world of trading is filled with paradoxes. Another paradox in the trading world is that the subject that will determine at least 90% of your results i… Read More
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2015-08-07 13:18
1) The S&P 500 keeps making new all time record highs. This started happening again 14 months ago, which I pointed out here. Since that time, the market has continued to pri… Read More
2014-04-21 01:26
When I first became interested in making money in the stock market, my initial strategy was to seek out stocks making new 52 week lows, as I felt that stocks doing so would be poised for a b… Read More
2014-02-08 16:53
In my previous post, I mentioned that the year 2013 was highly conducive to my trend following stock trading system, but that this conduciveness was atypical and that whipsaw signals would r… Read More
2014-02-08 04:32
In this post, I will explain an incredibly simple, yet effective, trend following strategy that has been backtested all the way back to 1963. The rules of the system are as follows:… Read More
2014-01-19 22:16
2014-01-19 16:18
Below is a chart of the short-term trend of the S&P 500:
As a trend following stock trader, this past year could hardly have been much better, with just one signal being generated fo… Read More
2013-12-29 14:56
I have been bullish on stocks for all of the year 2013, but one asset class that I have not been bullish on is commodities and commodity currencies.
The reason I am not bullish is due to o… Read More
2013-12-22 14:54
2013-12-15 15:03
Here are 4 stocks, all of which I currently own, that look very bullish to me:
Here are some commonalities amongst these 4 positions:
Ea… Read More
2013-12-08 14:57
One of the things that attracted me to the trend following trading world the most was the evidence. Thanks to Michael Covel's original work, I was able to see, going back decades, month by m… Read More
2013-11-30 23:38
I hear a lot lately that stocks are in a bubble, over-extended, over-valued and about to top out. Although anything is possible, and the top pickers will eventually be correct one of… Read More
2013-11-24 15:49
I like to short sell ultra ETFs that are in major downtrends. Since I have discussed my reasons for doing so before, I will not go through the rationale again here. However, her… Read More
2013-11-17 15:04
As a trend following trader, I always trade in the direction of the long term trend. Doing so keeps me on the right side of the market most of the time and helps give me an edge… Read More
2013-11-07 14:05
1) The stock will not have an Average True Range (ATR). I use the stock's volatility to determine how many shares to trade, so without this key missing ingredient, I do not know… Read More
2013-10-27 15:04
I think that my strategy of buying stocks making new 52 week highs or all time highs works for any market, but what makes the stock market different from other markets is that, unlike the Fo… Read More
2013-10-13 15:19
Last week, I talked about how trend following traders have difficulty appealing to the general public due to the volatility they experience.
Because novice traders prefer a smooth… Read More
2013-10-06 16:11
I find that the world of trading is filled with paradoxes. In this post, I will discuss one of these paradoxes:
Traders who have a high win rate appear safe, yet actually ten… Read More
2013-09-21 22:21
The stock above, ANW, is breaking out to a new 52 week high and appears very bullish to me.
Technically similar to XOOM, which I mentioned previously, OSIR represents a low ris… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The year 2014 has, so far, been a very challenging one for my trend following system, with the Russell 2000 generating 4 whipsaw signals since January, yet making zero progress for the year… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
1) The S&P 500 keeps making new all time record highs. This started happening again 14 months ago, which I pointed out here. Since that time, the market has continued to pri… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
This weekend, I completed Jack Schwager's "The Little Book of Market Wizards: Lessons from the Greatest Traders", which distills three decades of market wisdom into what was a very enjoyable… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Contrary to the market adage of buy low and sell high, I prefer to buy stocks at the highest possible price: a new all time high.
If a stock or ETF is making a new all time high, then it is… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
In this post, I will discuss a disparate series of charts that have caught my attention this weekend.
First, we have a daily chart of the S&P 500:
What I find noteworthy i… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
When it comes to trading, not only is it important to focus on "what to do", but it is also important to think about "what not to do". So, here are ten pieces of negat… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
A simple rule of thumb that I have developed through analyzing charts each and every day for 8 years is that when a market makes new all time highs, that is bullish.
I am, therefore, bullis… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
In my previous post, I mentioned that the year 2013 was highly conducive to my trend following stock trading system, but that this conduciveness was atypical and that whipsaw signals would r… Read More
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