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I teach people to make money in financial markets.

Common sense checks for quantitative data

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:08/30/2016
  • Post category:Market Math
  • Post comments:2 Comments

Yesterday I wrote a post that looked at asset returns and how to compound them. That post was in response to a reader's (Anthony's) question, and I want to continue…

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Gains and losses: understanding returns in assets and trading accounts

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:08/29/2016
  • Post category:Market Math
  • Post comments:0 Comments

One of my readers, Anthony, sent me a good question about doing some statistical analysis on stock indexes. I think there are some important lessons here. Here's the question First,…

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Reader question: Who moves the market?

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:08/23/2016
  • Post category:Psychology
  • Post comments:1 Comment

As markets languish in the summer doldrums, Glenn comes back with a good philosophical question: The edge in technical analysis is to find an imbalance of buying and selling pressure..…

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Where does market intuition come from?

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:08/20/2016
  • Post category:Psychology
  • Post comments:1 Comment

I saw this interesting article from Bloomberg last week, with the almost-clickbait title of "Train your brain for trading (No, Really!)" I just happened to click on it, and found…

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Video blog: That trend indicator… is it helping or hurting?

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:08/18/2016
  • Post category:Market Math / Trading tools
  • Post comments:1 Comment

It can difficult to dig into someone else's work and research. I wrote a post a few years ago about why using the slope of a moving average, moving average…

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Trendlines 101

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:08/16/2016
  • Post category:General Comments / Trading tools
  • Post comments:1 Comment

I thought it might be useful, since most markets are about as exciting as drying paint right now, to take a few steps back and consider some basic tools that…

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Patience… patience

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:08/15/2016
  • Post category:General Comments / Psychology / Trader Development
  • Post comments:3 Comments

An interesting debate emerged in the comments to one of my posts. In the post, I had suggested the discipline was the most important thing; a reader countered that patience…

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Reader question: How to handle exits?

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:08/11/2016
  • Post category:Breakout / Readers Questions / Trader Development
  • Post comments:6 Comments

Glenn comes back today with another good question. Here's his full, unedited question: Your many hats, your one job, the one and only thing that matters. For what it is…

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MarketLife Ep 35 – The beginner’s mind (a new mini-series)

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:08/05/2016
  • Post category:Podcast / Trader Development
  • Post comments:20 Comments

This episode kicks off a mini-series in which I work with a beginning trader to learn the very fundamentals of the business. We will cover method, psychology, risk, learning techniques,…

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Your many hats

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:08/01/2016
  • Post category:Psychology / Risk Management / Trader Development
  • Post comments:11 Comments

I wrote a few posts last week about how to never miss the move. Today, I want to dig into that idea a little bit deeper, and think about why,…

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