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Slip and slide (along the bands)

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:08/06/2015
  • Post category:Pullback/Trading tools/Trend Termination

Effective trading patterns are usually simple. The more complicated an idea is, the more likely it is the result of trying to fit very random data (i.e., the market) into…

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Trading against your bias: how and why

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:08/03/2015
  • Post category:Pullback/Trend Termination

I initiated a short in crude oil back in July, and an astute reader sent me a good question. For many weeks/months I had been operating with the assumption that…

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Using context to refine an entry in the EURUSD

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:06/25/2015
  • Post category:Pullback

The EUR/USD provides a good example of how we can use higher timeframe context to motivate an entry based on a lower timeframe breakout. First, the big(ger) picture, from the…

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Hidden in plain sight: trading multiple timeframe influences

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:05/07/2015
  • Post category: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…

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Filter out the noise and find your focus: pullback trading candidates

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:05/04/2015
  • Post category:Pullback

For anyone actively trading, looking at the markets you follow is a critical part of the investment process. Whether you do this once a week, once a day, or many…

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Taming the bear in the Russell 2000

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:05/01/2015
  • Post category:Pullback/Trend Termination

Let me preface this by saying two things: First, I'm bullish on global stocks over even moderately long timeframes. Technicians like to call tops, but I think this bull market…

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Reading trend strength through patterns

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:04/29/2015
  • Post category:Pullback

There are patterns in market prices that can point to trading opportunities and potential profits. This is one of the fundamental assumptions of technical/tactical trading (and can be verified by…

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Ready to rumble? Is the US Dollar set for another breakout?

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:04/10/2015
  • Post category:General Comments/Pullback

To trade or invest successfully, we have to think one step ahead of the market, but we have to discipline ourselves not to act early. We also must strike a…

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US Dollar trend update… next steps

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:04/02/2015
  • Post category:Anti/Pullback

Just a quick followup to this post, in which I suggested the US Dollar might be set for a fakeout rally (that has happened) that might fail into a sharp…

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Watch for a US Dollar fakeout

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:03/30/2015
  • Post category:Pullback

Markets move in alternating waves of with-trend strength (or weakness) interspersed with moves against the trend. We call these moves pullbacks or consolidations, and they create some of the most…

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The S&P 500 setup heading into the Fed meeting

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:03/19/2015
  • Post category:Pullback

[This post was originally published on SeeItMarket.com, here. I have added some comments at the end of the post to update following yesterday's action. Despite the fact the market rallied…

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To buy or not to buy…?

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:03/10/2015
  • Post category: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…

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Trading a long complicated pullback in the Dollar

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:03/04/2015
  • Post category:Pullback

We spend a lot of time, as traders, developing skills of precision trading: when to enter trades, where to put stops, when to add, when to take partial profits, when…

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Lessons from pattern failures in gold

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:02/19/2015
  • Post category:General Comments/Pullback

I thought it might be useful to take a look at one of the most common trading patterns, the flag, and, more importantly, to see what happens when it doesn't…

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Buying the Russell 2000 index

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:11/13/2014
  • Post category:Pullback

A look at the technical justification and support for a long trade in the Russell 2000 index, or other US indexes.

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How to trade Complex Consolidations

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:11/06/2014
  • Post category:Pullback

This is the second in a series of posts on pattern recognition, following up on yesterday's post that dealt with trading simple pullbacks. The pullback truly is one of the…

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