Reader Question: Advice for Newer Traders?
[dc]I[/dc] recently received a few reader questions asking the same thing: what would my advice be to new traders? This is an important and daunting question (and I've written on…
Mid Week Links and Reading
Industrials are running into some trouble. This could be significant for the broad market, or it could be noisy sector rotation. (I'd bet on the latter, at this point.) Here's…
Video blog: Setups in US Stocks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX4BS7ZR9Kw&feature=youtu.be Video blog looking at setups in the S&P 500 (SPY), Russell 2000 (IWM), Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Alcoa (NYSE: AA), Delta Airlines (NYSE: DAL), Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC), Bank of…
Multiple Timeframe Loonie Tunes
[dc]I[/dc] want to share a brief look at longer-term market structure in the Canadian dollar today. We have a situation in which a few timeframes appear to be in conflict…
A Way to Visualize Weekly Data
[dc]L[/dc]ast week I shared a new data visualization that looked at short and long term performance of sectors in context of volatility. This week, I'd like to share another tool…
The Rage to Master
[dc]B[/dc]efore I was a trader, I was a musician. In my career as a musician, I discovered the value of teaching—that I enjoyed teaching, I was good at it, and…
Managing your Fear of Loss
[dc]P[/dc]eople talk about "learning how to lose" and "losing gracefully". Truth be told, that's a concept I've always had trouble understanding. Though I know there is some wisdom in the…
Video: Market Performance by Market Cap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjwQuYZtucQ&feature=youtu.be A quick look at stock market performance by market cap slices. Simply put, smaller cap stocks (e.g., Russell 2000 (IWM)) tend to outperform larger cap stocks (S&P 500 (SPY)…
Mid-week Reading
I haven't done this before, but I thought it might be interesting to share some of the links I read each week. Many other writers do this, and they seem…
Improve Your Mental Game
[dc]I[/dc] had an interesting conversation a month ago with Ian, a trader who I mentored a few years back who has continued to work on his trading skills and now…
Visualizing Sector Relative Strength
Understanding sector strength and weakness is an important part of the investment process. Here is one way to look at short and long term performance relative to current volatility within each sector.
Five Things You Can Do Today to Improve Your Trading
[dc]A[/dc]s we all know, the road to trading success is a long road, and the path is not at all straight. To achieve some degree of competence can take years,…
About My Research Reports
[dc]I[/dc] often get questions about the research I write for Waverly Advisors: what it is, who it is for, how it's different than a "newsletter", how to use it, and…
Five Ways to Fail at Trading
1. Trade too big. "Too big", in this case, means trading too large relative to your account size. (If you have my book, Chapter 9 includes an extensive discussion on…