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  • Monthly Archives: August 2018

    August 2018

    How and why we were short GGAL, a major Argentinian bank

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:08/31/2018
    • Post category:Pullback

    I have a confession to make: I’m trying to learn to do better marketing. I’m not the kind of person to brag about success—one of the reasons for that is…

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    Reader question: How do I measure liquidity?

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:08/30/2018
    • Post category:Readers Questions

    A reader, Mohammad asks: I see you mentioning liquidity or a market being too thin to trade. I’m not sure what this means or how to measure liquidity. Please help.…

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    Trade management lessons from a nasty reversal

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:08/29/2018
    • Post category:Pullback/Trader Development

    I want to share a trade with you that I recent published in my Talon research report. There are a few lessons here: first, the enduring lesson of trading pullbacks…

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    Chartschool: FOMO and breakouts in the USDCHF

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:08/28/2018
    • Post category:Breakout/Video blog

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd4Xgq7IFiU

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    The dirty dozen: my beliefs about the market and trading

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:08/27/2018
    • Post category:Trader Development

    I thought it might be interesting to put together a list that summarizes my experiences, successes, failures, and the beliefs that grew out of that work. It's not a simple…

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    Trading for a living: real talk

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:08/24/2018
    • Post category:Individual Traders/Trader Development

    Trading for a living—this is why many of us come into the market in the first place. It's the fuel that drives a lot of marketing, good and bad, and…

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    Chartschool: nested flag and a short in corn

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:08/23/2018
    • Post category:Nested Pullback/Pullback

    https://youtu.be/OUZvkiZAWaI

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    Do you have a pre-trade checklist?

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:08/21/2018
    • Post category:Trader Development/Trading tools

    Consistency in trading results requires consistency of process. If you are doing something different every time you trade, it’s hard to evaluate your results. A simple pre-trade checklist can help…

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    Trading is Hard

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:08/16/2018
    • Post category:Psychology

    Trading is ugly. Many of us, when we first get into the business, have the idea that the market will eventually be an ATM machine—you can sit down at the…

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    Shifting price dynamics in the AUDUSD: what shadows can tell us

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:08/12/2018
    • Post category:Support / Resistance

    Sometimes, reading market action is about putting the pieces together... building a big picture from the composite of small bits of information that might not seem terribly meaningful by themselves.…

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    What can price action tell us about China?

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:08/09/2018
    • Post category:Support / Resistance

    https://youtu.be/u5lr7WegGQ8

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    Do interest rates scare you?

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:08/08/2018
    • Post category:Chart of the Day/Macro

    Interest rates are constantly in the headlines. When I talk to traders and investors, interest rates are one of the topics that always come up. There's a great deal of…

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