Intersections of Trading and Consciousness: A New Year’s Reflection
As we step into 2025, I want to take a moment to greet you and wish you good health, wholeness, and success in the coming year. Instead of adding to…
Trading with Head and Heart: Balancing Strategy and Psychology
I received an email from a reader named Doug, about my recent blog post: “…I'm definitely a skeptic with the psychology portion of trading - but as a futures day-trader,…
Consistent Trading Through Repeating Patterns: Lessons from 3,800 Days of Market Study
Every day, I provide detailed market analysis for MarketLife members, focusing on daily setups. We focus primarily on the daily timeframe, and cover markets in two tranches: US-listed futures (and…
Avoid Scams: Clarifying My Official Communication Policy
Due to a recent uptick of impersonators and scam accounts, I want to clarify a few critical points regarding my communication and services. My contact policy I will never contact…
How I Trade (part 2/2)
This is a follow-up to this post in which I laid out the conceptual background that supports my trading. In today’s post, I’ll get into specific ideas and structures I…
How I Trade (Part 1 of 2)
Word Count: 1506Estimated Reading Time: 7-8 minutes While I’ve written extensively on trading approaches and market movements, I still get many questions like, “How do you trade?” and “What tools…
Resonance of My Two Worlds: Music & Markets
Estimated time to read: < 5 minutes As many of you know, in addition to my work as a trader in financial markets, I’m also a classically-trained musician. Recently, I’ve…
Join me in a new series of talks on the Art & Science of Trading
Over the next few months, I will be hosting a series of talks in which I will discuss each chapter of my first book, The Art and Science of Technical…
When You Meet the Buddha on the Road…
“While you are walking on the road, if you happen to meet the Buddha, you must kill him.” So reads one of the more enigmatic teachings in Zen Buddhism (attributed…
Markets Unlocked 3/27/23: Dueling timeframes and influences
One of the critical questions traders must answer is how to reconcile conflicting information. If we are seeing markets clearly, there are always factors and arguments to be made for…
Markets unlocked 2/27/23: Monitoring weakness
Stocks were once again weak last week. While it's easy to extrapolate whatever the market is doing into infinity, it's important to put the move in context. This, in fact,…
A Big Blog Post: Music, Creativity, Trading, a New Book, and More
It’s been a while since I’ve written here. You’ve probably seen the weekly updates, under the Markets Unlocked tag—these have been useful, high-level summaries of market conditions and things we’re…
Markets unlocked 2/5/23: Big moves–good setups?
Last week saw some fireworks in stock indexes. Moved mostly by a handful of tech earnings and announcements with a solid dose of FOMC magic, US indexes chiseled out some…
Markets Unlocked 10/10/22: Where is crude oil going?
In the interest of brevity, I’m going to write this weekend’s email almost in bullet point format. There’s a lot here, so let’s get going! Global stocks are still under…
2022 Update on Trades, Profit Targets, and Dew Directions
Much of this year passed in a blur! It’s been a minute since I posted last, so I thought I would just write a short post to let you know…
Welcome to Markets Unlocked 9/24/22: A look at our MSI, a fear gauge that works
As we cross the line into fall, we are going to start publishing a short end-of-week update. We'll share some of our thoughts on the current market environment--what you need…
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