The law of small numbers: a mistake you’re probably making
One of the very positive advances over the past decade is the amount of attention focused on cognitive biases. We are, through the work of some gifted authors and speakers,…
Learning technical analysis: mindset and expectations
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Announcing the new options course
Most of my readers know about the Art and Science of Trading course, but, if you don’t, it’s just about the best education in technical analysis that’s available, and it…
The secret formula for success
The secret to success is no secret at all—it’s right there in the open, for everyone to see. To achieve greatness in any field you have to do the right…
YouTube series: Tom’s Trades
We've started a series of "quick hit" trade analysis on our MarketLife YouTube channel, done my my trading partner, Tom. These are all actual trades, with points of entry, trade…
How to get started in technical analysis
This is the third in my series of blog posts for beginning traders. One of the questions I see over and over is “how do I start learning technical analysis?”…
A good pullback setup in the USDCAD
Just a quick post here, under the heading of “simple things work.” Take a look at the chart of the USDCAD below. This is a picture perfect short setup, and…
How to forecast future trading conditions in a market
In the first blog in this new series for beginning traders/technical analysts, I suggested that the first goal of chart analysis is to understand the most likely emerging volatility conditions.…
The most important goal of chart analysis
This is the first in a short series of posts in which we will look at the basic, fundamental elements of directional trading. This series will be written for beginning…
Tracking sector flows
Understanding stock markets can be difficult. Which index should we look at? There are many ways to slice stocks: by market cap, by proprietary index methodology, by geography, by valuation,…
The power of habit and momentum
So, it's January 14th and I'm writing my first blog of the year. There's an important lesson here: habit, momentum, and daily rhythm are important. I have come to believe…
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…
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