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I teach people to make money in financial markets.

Is Santa afraid of the Bear?

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:11/30/2018
  • Post category:Market Math
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This is a continuation of a series of posts looking at December seasonality in the stock market. The previous post is here, and the goal of this series is to…

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‘Tis the season… or is it? A deeper look at seasonality in stocks.

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:11/29/2018
  • Post category:Market Math / Trading tools
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This is a followup to my previous post that included a visualization of seasonal tendencies for about 90 years of the US stock market. A visualization like that is a good…

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Is Santa Real? Monthly seasonality in the DJIA

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:11/28/2018
  • Post category:General Comments / Market Math
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This is the first in a short series of blogs in which we will look at the so-called Santa Claus rally in stocks and find some answers to the question…

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How to avoid some bad trades

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:11/27/2018
  • Post category:Breakout
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Take a look at the chart above. Notice three things near the right edge of the chart: An intermediate term moving average is flat Price is never moving far from…

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How to learn about indicators

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:11/26/2018
  • Post category:Trading tools
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This weekend, a reader, Paul, asked: In my limited understanding, Rsi, cci and % r are all basically trying to show the same thing When is one better than the…

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An old paper I co-authored: Patterns in Stock Market Returns (2006)

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:11/21/2018
  • Post category:Market Math
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As we round the corner into the Thanksgiving holiday, I thought I would share another piece of my old writing. I recently found this paper as I was searching through…

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Guest post: Ohhh, Is That A Shiny Penny On The Ground?

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:11/20/2018
  • Post category:Guest Blog
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[Here's a guest post from a great system developer, honest guy, and my friend Kevin Davey. He beat me to the punch with an article on option selling/writing premium. Tom…

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Let’s talk turkey: Thanksgiving seasonality in stocks

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:11/20/2018
  • Post category:Market Math / Technical Patterns
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This is a slightly edited version of the note I sent to my Talon Advisors clients this weekend. There is always a lot of discussion about seasonality at the end…

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This does not look like that

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:11/20/2018
  • Post category:Chart of the Day
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I write a lot of words, but sometimes words aren't really necessary. I'll just leave you a look at the current chart of the S&P 500 index (daily), alongside the…

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Reader question: is anyone worried?

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:11/16/2018
  • Post category:Individual Traders / Psychology / Trader Development
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In a Facebook discussion group I run, Dan asked if anyone was worried about the market. In this own words: I know you guys are robots who play the tape,…

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S&P 500 futures activity by time of day

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:11/14/2018
  • Post category:Intraday Trading / Trading tools / Volatility
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Most people know that stock markets tend to be much more active on the open and close, and are often "dead" in the middle of the day. This is important…

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How do you know if you’re chasing a trade or not?

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:11/13/2018
  • Post category:Pullback
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FOMO (fear of missing out) is a killer in the markets. One of the surest ways to lose money is to miss a trade, get frustrated, and then bang into…

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When is a recovery not a recovery?

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:11/12/2018
  • Post category:General Comments
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At the end of last week (week ended 11/9/18), many technical analysis were pointing to "recoveries" in Europe and Asian stock indexes. The observation was that most global stock indexes…

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When percents fail

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:11/11/2018
  • Post category:Market Math / Trading tools / Volatility
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Let's think a bit about "signal generation". When we test something in the market what we're looking for is an answer to "What happens after _______ occurs?" This is really…

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TradeLab: Reviewing some recent trades we published

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:11/07/2018
  • Post category:Breakout / Pullback / Trader Development
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I firmly believe the best trading lessons come from the market... and the best of the best trading lessons come from your own work and trading. Let me share some…

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ChartSchool: trading the Anti

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:11/06/2018
  • Post category:Anti
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glC46qBLaM8

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