Context in Pullbacks: What Should Happen?
Pullbacks are a great way to trade. But, with any trade, the problem is that some trades work and some don’t. There are ways to tell which pullbacks are more…
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…
Beyond the News: A Dive Into Breakout Behavior
Here are a few quick lessons drawn from today’s (Monday 10/9/23) action in the S&P 500 futures. Of course, we could draw many lessons any time we look at a…
Selective Intraday Trades: A Deep Dive Into the Snap Pullback
Today, I want to share a trade in the S&P futures market. Here’s what I hope you’ll get from this short blog post: A deeper understanding of the snap pullback…
Mastering Market Dynamics: Intraday accumulation
Last week's Hudson Sessions talk was centered on the topic of accumulation and distribution. Today, I'd like to share a follow-up lesson that exemplifies these concepts through a trade I…
Beyond Patterns: Rethinking Candlesticks
In the inaugural Hudson Sessions, I shared a cool new visualization. Some of the viewers found it challenging, and a few even dismissed it as being impossible. I understand! Even…
The Power of the Snap Pullback
Recently, I posted a tweet about a great example of a snap pullback (formerly known as the "Anti") on the 4H S&P futures. This sparked some interesting questions and discussions…
Cycles, Cycles Everywhere
I want to share a few of the things I have been thinking about and focusing on in the market. This market environment is not that different than "business as…
Putting the Puzzle Together: A Miniseries on Chartreading
My blog is well over 100,000 words, covering a range of trading related topics, and spanning more than a decade of writing. This is both good and bad. The good…
Overshoots and Overreactions
One of the features of financial markets is that they often react to new information with emotional volatility, and overshoot extremes. Understanding this element of price behavior can give us…
A bear flag in Treasuries: a good setup and a clean trade
Sometimes I think the world probably does not want to see yet another blog from me illustrating yet another basic pattern… but these “basic patterns” can be wildly profitable. You…
Multiple timeframe conflict
Looking at multiple timeframes of the same market (“multiple timeframe analysis”) is a common practice. There are many nuances to this approach, and many ways to use the information on…
The most important things
Sometimes, it’s hard to know where to start. When we look at charts or go to the market for trading ideas, thousands of pieces of information compete for our attention.…
Did you miss a trade?
What happens if you miss a trade? Newer traders will often make a frustrated FOMO trade, and add a loss to what should have been a non-event. More experienced traders…
A look at some recent patterns
Summertime is here, and, as far as markets are concerned, it's been here a while. One of the characteristics of summertime trading is generally lower volatility and poorer followthrough. Summer…
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