by AdamHGrimes | May 31, 2019 | Chart of the Day, Nested Pullback
One of the nice things about swing trading is you can have resting orders, so your alert that a pattern has triggered is an order being filled. Here’s a nice pattern to put in your trade plan: the nested flag. (I came up with that name years ago, and I still...
by AdamHGrimes | May 30, 2019 | General Comments
I am a big fan of data visualizations that help me see what is going on in world markets. Over the years, I’ve created many versions of these, but the ones I have now are finely crafted tools that strike a great balance between depth and breadth. Early in my...
by AdamHGrimes | May 29, 2019 | Chart of the Day, Volatility
Take a look at the table of charts below. Each smaller chart shows the 10 largest stocks for that S&P 500 sector. They are graphed with historical (also called realized or statistical) volatility on the horizontal, and implied volatility on the vertical. The dot...
by AdamHGrimes | May 28, 2019 | Chart of the Day, Pullback
Here is a trade setup we published today as a MarketLife TradeLab, available to both MarketLife Premium and MarketLife Plus subscribers. We are also offering a lifetime 20% discount on MarketLife. Use the code SPRING19 and sign up today. After offering trading...
by AdamHGrimes | May 24, 2019 | Intraday Trading, Quantitative analysis, Support / Resistance
This is part 2 of a two part blog. Read the first part here. Quick summary: to test the validity of price levels in markets, we created a test in which we showed a bunch (1,535) of traders 20 panels of charts. Each panel included two charts which were essentially the...
