by AdamHGrimes | Feb 8, 2018 | Failure Test
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by AdamHGrimes | Dec 1, 2016 | Anti, Climax, Failure Test, Pullback, Technical Patterns, Trend Termination
Recent action in copper futures gives us some market lessons. These can be adapted to other markets and timeframes (so if you just trade stocks or currencies, don’t skip over this because it’s a futures market!) I’ll try to keep this as short as possible, but there...
by AdamHGrimes | May 7, 2015 | Failure Test, Pullback, Support / Resistance, Technical Patterns
Multiple timeframe analysis is almost a buzzword in technical analysis. I have been involved in markets actively for two decades, and have been an active participant in dialogue about markets for most of that time. It is interesting to see different techniques take...
by AdamHGrimes | Mar 10, 2015 | Breakout, Climax, Failure Test, Pullback, Volatility
We can simplify many of the problems of technical or tactical trading to one question: assume that a market just made a large move. Do we want to fade (go against) that move, looking for reversal, or do we want to take a position with that move, looking for...
by AdamHGrimes | Nov 11, 2014 | Failure Test
Despite all the good reasons for focusing on with-trend trading, the first pattern I taught in my book was a little countertrend pattern–the failure test. Why? In this case, the reason is that the pattern is clearly defined, and it’s easier to make...
by AdamHGrimes | Sep 24, 2014 | Failure Test, Psychology, Support / Resistance
I’ve focused quite a bit here on quantitative aspects of trading and market analysis, and I’ve also just scratched the surface of the thorny subject of intuition. Today, I want to look at something slightly different: how we can use some subjective...
