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S urely after reading a few books and taking a course or two you’ll be ready to be a profitable trader. Unfortunately, most people entering the profession of trading will give up or go broke within the first year. It’s not because they read the wrong...
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Top 10 Candles That Work
They’re The Trendiest
Which candlestick patterns trend the most in 10 days?
In my last...
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The Adjustable-Bands Z-Test
From BBZ To ABZ′
Markets generally trend or move in a range. If you apply a trending algorithm ...
Weekly And Monthly Seasonal Cycles
A Timely Edge With The S&P 500
These two short-term seasonal cycles can give traders an edge.
In &n...
Net Effective Market Activity
The Futures Are Here
The desire to learn more about the relationships amid price, volume, and open in...
Identifying Stops And Targets
Variations On A Classic
How do you figure out where to place stops and targets? Try using support and...
Choosing Optimal Moneyness
Part 2 Of Two Parts
In his previous article, Giorgos Siligardos demonstrated how the movement of the ...
Technical Analysis Adapts And Thrives
From Art To Science
Professions are built on a body of knowledge and an underlying rationale that exp...
Empowering Traders To Trade Commodities
Crude, Silver, Gold, And Platinum
With more and more products being added to the marketplace, how do ...
Straightening The Curves
Small Steps For Profit
Consistently making a small profit on one contract is the first step to becomi...
Trade Breakouts And Retracements With TMV
A Series Of Indicators Used As One
Making good trading decisions involves finding indicators that cut...
Take The First Step
Succeeding As A Trader
So you want to become a trader? Don’t miss the critical first step that ...
Identifying Cup Formations Early
Simple Yet Effective
Here’s a simple mechanical recognition method for identifying possible eme...
Hurst’s Cyclic Analysis
Cyclic Theory Revealed
This crash course on an almost-forgotten theory could shed some light on how y...
How High For Crude?
Technically Speaking, That Is
Here’s a look at the Nymex crude oil perpetual front-mo...
Is It Over For Gold?
Are We Overbought?
Cycles and the futures volume open interest indicator will tell you.
It is tem...
Intraday Trading With 100 Shares
Maintaining Consistency
With this intraday trading strategy, you can consistently profit with 100-sha...
The Spearman Indicator For Technical Analysis
Determining Trend Strength And Turning Points
This indicator is a very old statistical tool that even...
How Good Is Your Data?
Liberté! Fraternité!
All data is equal — at least that’s what we think.
Is &n...
Trading The Golden Ratio
A Window Of Opportunity
You can apply this technique to forex pairs to confirm price direction and an...
Walk-Forward Evaluation
Test Your Results
When you design a trading system, you want to see an extensive set of walk-forward ...
The Overnight Return Study
Incorporating Biases
Anomalies in the markets appear on occasion and challenge the efficient market h...
News & Products
LME GOES LIVE WITH NEW TRADING PLATFORM
The London Metal Exchange (LME) has gone live with a new version of the LMESelect 7 trading platform, jointly developed with service delivery partner Xchanging and technology provider Cinnober Financial. The upgrade brings configurable new order types t...
Books For Traders
UNDERSTANDING ETF OPTIONS: PROFITABLE STRATEGIES FOR DIVERSIFIED, LOW-RISK INVESTING
(233 pages, $35 hardcover, 2012, ISBN 978-0-07-176030-0) by Kenneth R. Trester , published by McGraw-Hill.
Finding a safe investment in today’s market makes looking for a needle in a haystack seem easy. With a single “whale” able to move a market and a global computer network ex...
Letters To The Editor
Letters To The Editor - February 2012
BEST-PERFORMING CANDLESTICKS
Editor,
I read the article “
The Eight Best Performing Candles
” by Thomas Bulkowski in your November 2011 issue. I found it interesting that the bullish reversal pattern called
three inside up
was one of the top two best-performing candles. The other o...
Traders' Tips
METASTOCK: TREND, MOMENTUM, VOLATILITY, AND VOLUME (TMV) — STAR ARTICLE CODE
Metastock code for the TMV indicator template provided in Barbara Star’s article in this issue is available in our Subscriber’s Area .
Futures Liquidity
Futures Liquidity - February 2012
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.
Commodity futures
The futures liquid...
Q & A
LEAPS OF FAITH
Following Netflix’s late October 2011 earnings disappointment, shares cemented the stock’s out-of-favor position with growth traders. But with NFLX’s rapid drop in excess of 70% from its highs and the company still the dominant player in the to-your-doorstep or streaming video mark...
Novice Traders' Notebook
Moving Average Convergence/Divergence
A trend-following indicator devised by Gerald Appel in the 1970s, the moving average convergence/divergence (MACD) identifies crossovers, finds overbought/oversold conditions, and tracks divergences. Simply, the MACD is the crossing of two exponentially smoothed moving averages that are plotted abov...
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