Meditation: Going Deeper
[dc]I[/dc]f you have been following along with my previous posts on meditation, you have spent a week or so simply sitting, watching your breath, and letting your mind relax. Many…
Trading the Rally in India: Finding Setups
[dc]T[/dc]oday I want to follow up on my previous posts on the rally in the Indian stock market and think a bit about how to balance technical and fundamental factors.…
Meditation Week 2: Breathe In. Breathe Out
[dc]S[/dc]o, if you read my first article on meditation here, and tried my suggested plan, you have gotten a taste of meditation. (To recap, I suggested sitting for five minutes…
Reader Question: Gaps and Context
Reader Shai suggests a clarification on my last post, specifically concerning the gap and the idea of slippage being a good sign for a trade: Like always great posts. Again,…
Trading the Rally in India: Gaps and Risk
[dc]I[/dc] wanted to follow up on my recent post about trading the rally in India. I ended that post with a question: We were planning to enter EPI (an earnings-weighted…
Meditation 101: Getting Started
[dc]A[/dc]s I promised last week, I'm going to start posting on some different topics and broadening the scope of this blog a little bit. (Depending on the reception, maybe a…
Trading the Rally in India
[dc]T[/dc]oday I want to take a look at the recent move in India's stock market. I will discuss how we traded it (and signaled the move far in advance) in…
Reader Question: Best Way to Trade Intraday
Reader Andrew asks (paraphrased question): Can I first of all say that I recently discovered this website and your book and I think they are fantastic! I would like to…
Charting by Hand
Today, I want to write a bit about the value of keeping charts by hand. I've written on this topic before, but I think it is so important it's worth…
New Directions, New Ideas
[dc]O[/dc]ver the past few months, I've been doing a lot of thinking and researching, and have been exploring some exciting new directions. Some of you have worked through my free…
Reader Question: Timeframes for Daytrading?
[dc]R[/dc]eader Wei asks: From the examples in the book, you are clearly a long term trader using daily and weekly time frames. But what combination of time frames would you…
Trading Volatility Compression
[dc]I[/dc] want to write what might be a complicated blog post, but stick with me. I'll try to make it as clear as possible, because there is a good lesson…
Reader Question: Technical Patterns Before News?
[dc]R[/dc]ichard asks: "I saw a trade setup, but also saw reasons not to take it. [MACD divergence] A news release was also scheduled soon, and a large move before the…
Failure Test Followthrough in the EUR
[dc]T[/dc]he chart above is a daily chart of the EURUSD. I've written before about some of the challenges with using technical analysis in currencies—it's not that it can't be done,…
Sell in May?
[dc]I[/dc] wanted to share a few thoughts and some analysis that we published in our research a week ago, looking at the supposed "sell in May…" effect. There are a…
Pattern Development in the GBP
[dc]A[/dc] few weeks ago, I discussed a possible impending breakout in the British pound in this post. This is a good time to take another look at the pattern, how…