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,…
Video blog: What’s happening with the yield curve and why do we care?
Here's a look at history and the stats behind the fluctuations in the US Treasury Yield Curve. https://youtu.be/iagtes45ek0
Six keys to effective risk management
1. It is not just that risk is hard to understand--some risks may be impossible to understand. Your risk management plan has to leave room for the unknown and the…
Where are your risks?
Traders talk about and think about risk all the time, and for good reason: this is a risky business! A lot of things can go wrong, and some of those…
The most important question you need to ask
I spent an hour a week ago talking with a very experienced stock trader. This guy has made a lot of money, but he's made it while fighting a strongly…
Five questions to ask before each trade
Successful trading and investing is largely about asking the right questions. Many of the most serious mistakes we make come from blindly accepting our ideas and perceptions at face value.…
What to do when your stop is hit?
This could, perhaps, be the shortest blog post ever. I could simply answer the question with: follow your rules. Get out. But let's dig a little deeper. Before we really…
The most important thing you need to know about commodities
The marketplace is constantly evolving. One of the biggest changes over the past decade is the proliferation of Exchange Traded Products (ETPs) that allow stock traders to trade commodities (and…
Discretionary and consistent? How?
I've been asked a few variations of the same interesting question recently. Here are a few examples: The one thing I keep struggling with is finding an edge I can…
Technical tools for everyone
If you read much of my work, you will begin to see that applying technical tools takes work; it takes a lot of time and experience to know how to…
Where the wild things are? No, where the open is.
The open, in many ways, is the most important price of the day; action off the open can often define the character of the entire session and even have implications…
Five ways to awaken intuition in trading
This post continues the discussion on finding the Art in technical analysis. Read that first, and also this post, on bringing broad intuition into your experience. For quantitatively-inclined traders (such…
Current market overview: weekly webinar
This is an important time in global markets. Equities are at a potentially important inflection, and short term noise may be misleading many players. Currencies have had some fantastic moves,…
Where is the Art?
[dc]M[/dc]uch of my writing here has focused on quantitative tools and ways to look at data. I have called for higher standards and have questioned many of the established tools…
And this little piggie… had an exit plan.
[dc]M[/dc]any years ago, a friend of mine shared an encounter he had with a successful investing club. This club was not like many of the others—they didn’t pool their money…
Video: Market Performance by Market Cap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjwQuYZtucQ&feature=youtu.be A quick look at stock market performance by market cap slices. Simply put, smaller cap stocks (e.g., Russell 2000 (IWM)) tend to outperform larger cap stocks (S&P 500 (SPY)…
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