by AdamHGrimes | Jun 4, 2019 | Quantitative analysis, Support / Resistance, Trend Termination
I want to share the results of a quick statistical study I did today, and also share a few thoughts about using stats, in general, to shape our trading decisions. (And I promise two things: this won’t be a boring blog and if you trade actively, it will give you...
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 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...
by AdamHGrimes | May 22, 2019 | Quantitative analysis, Support / Resistance
First, thank you to each of you who participated in the experiment/quiz. We have stopped collecting data, but you can re-take the quiz and see which answers were right or wrong here. Let me start with the conclusions up front, and then I’ll explain what we did and...
by AdamHGrimes | Apr 28, 2019 | Technical Patterns, Trader Development
This might be a more challenging blog post than most, but if you’re interested in really understanding price action I think it’s very important. Over the past several weeks I’ve been doing some deep dive coding and quant work. (Stuff like looking at correlation and...
