Tracking sector flows
Understanding stock markets can be difficult. Which index should we look at? There are many ways to slice stocks: by market cap, by proprietary index methodology, by geography, by valuation, by sector, by industry, by looking at individual stocks... the choices can...
The power of habit and momentum
So, it's January 14th and I'm writing my first blog of the year. There's an important lesson here: habit, momentum, and daily rhythm are important. I have come to believe the power of habit is one of the most-neglected truths of the human experience. Too often, we...
Are you predicting or not?
Traders often say "I don't predict anything; I just follow my system." I've always found this a little bit curious because when you trade you are making a prediction, based on a few assumptions. (Even for those marketers who try to insulate themselves from "predictive...
TradeLab review
This blog post is a review of every TradeLab we have published for MarketLife since our previous post. TradeLab was designed to be an easily accessible and digestible "trading lesson" in context of a current setup in the market. We get to see patterns set up and play...
Podcast: Q&A (and some rambling)
Chart of the day: Current technicals for indexes
I thought it might be useful to take a few moments to look at the technical situation in US stock indexes. Though this is important work, we are only going to scratch the surface. I'll end this post with a quick look at other things you might want to consider. First,...
Why Bitcoin was a clear short
On 4 December, I fired off a quick tweet that generated a lot of discussion in my Facebook and email inboxes. (Curiously enough, not so much discussion on the tweek itself.) The tweet was just a quick snap of a daily and intraday chart of Bitcoin (BTCUSD) with the...
ChartSchool: Bread and butter trades
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