Are you predicting or not?
Traders often say "I don't predict anything; I just follow my system." I've always found this a little bit curious because when you trade you are making a prediction, based…
TradeLab review
This blog post is a review of every TradeLab we have published for MarketLife since our previous post. TradeLab was designed to be an easily accessible and digestible "trading lesson"…
Chart of the day: Current technicals for indexes
I thought it might be useful to take a few moments to look at the technical situation in US stock indexes. Though this is important work, we are only going…
Why Bitcoin was a clear short
On 4 December, I fired off a quick tweet that generated a lot of discussion in my Facebook and email inboxes. (Curiously enough, not so much discussion on the tweek…
Why I’m not worried about a recession (yet)
Investors are terrified at the thought of a recession. (Writers love it, because everyone will read an article on a recession!) Investors are right to be concerned, as bear markets…
What can we learn from the range?
Markets broadly exist in two states: trends or trading ranges. In other words, a market is happy with the current price (and accepts it) or is moving to another price.…
Using statistics to map the trading day
This will be a very quick blog, as I'm just typing a few thoughts here in the first few minutes of what might be a volatile trading day. This morning,…
Santa Claus rally: updated stats and expectations
This is the last in a series of blogs looking at December seasonality in stocks. To quickly recap, the first post used a simple binary (up/down) classification to look at…
Chartschool: Reactions and overreactions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p3hwQjWkCk
Why were we focused on NZD trades?
A week ago, I pointed out trade setups in NZDUSD and many NZD crosses to my MarketLife and Talon clients. Of course, one issue currency traders need to consider is…
Is Santa afraid of the Bear?
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…
‘Tis the season… or is it? A deeper look at seasonality in stocks.
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…
Is Santa Real? Monthly seasonality in the DJIA
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…
How to avoid some bad trades
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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