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  • Monthly Archives: November 2014

    November 2014

    Discretionary and consistent? How?

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:11/24/2014
    • Post category:Individual Traders/Institutional Managers/Traders/Trader Development

    I've been asked a few variations of the same interesting question recently. Here are a few examples: The one thing I keep struggling with is finding an edge I can…

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    Managing your luck

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:11/21/2014
    • Post category:General Comments

    I left you, at the end of yesterday's post, with some strong evidence that luck plays a big part in your trading results. Now for the good news: you are…

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    What’s luck got to do with it?

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:11/20/2014
    • Post category:Market Math/Psychology

    Let's cut straight to the punchline: the answer is, "it turns out, quite a lot." Continuing on this week's series that attempts to break down important technical trading ideas into…

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    Technicals for everyone: overbought / oversold

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:11/18/2014
    • Post category:Climax/Trader Development

    Continuing from yesterday's post, I wanted to dig a little bit deeper into the idea of what happens when markets go too far, too fast and snap back. This concept…

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    Technical tools for everyone

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:11/17/2014
    • Post category:Individual Traders/Institutional Managers/Traders

    If you read much of my work, you will begin to see that applying technical tools takes work; it takes a lot of time and experience to know how to…

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    Buying the Russell 2000 index

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:11/13/2014
    • Post category:Pullback

    A look at the technical justification and support for a long trade in the Russell 2000 index, or other US indexes.

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    The Failure Test

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:11/11/2014
    • Post category:Failure Test

    Despite all the good reasons for focusing on with-trend trading, the first pattern I taught in my book was a little countertrend pattern--the failure test. Why? In this case, the…

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    Style matters

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:11/10/2014
    • Post category:Technical Patterns/Trader Development

    Last week, I covered pullback trading, which is one of the most common and most important with-trend trading patterns. This week, I will dig deeper into some different patterns, but…

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    The nested pullback

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:11/07/2014
    • Post category:Nested Pullback

    This is the third article in my series on pattern recognition, and the last on pullbacks. Most patterns in markets are relatively simple, and most patterns were labeled long ago.…

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    How to trade Complex Consolidations

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:11/06/2014
    • Post category:Pullback

    This is the second in a series of posts on pattern recognition, following up on yesterday's post that dealt with trading simple pullbacks. The pullback truly is one of the…

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    How to trade pullbacks

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:11/05/2014
    • Post category:Pullback

    I'm starting a short series of posts here on pattern recognition, focusing on simple patterns that I have found useful in actual trading. Some of my readers may have questions…

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    Reader question: Sentiment analysis?

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:11/03/2014
    • Post category:Market Math/Readers Questions

    Reader Tom asks: I have been reading your blog for a few weeks and I don't see any mention of sentiment. I also see you trade futures but you do…

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