by AdamHGrimes | Jul 16, 2018 | General Comments, Technical Patterns, Trend Termination
This week, in our pattern analysis group, we’re looking at Trend Termination plays. This terminology might be a bit confusing at first. It stems from a system I came up with when I wrote my first book, under which I noted that we can categorize all technical,...
by AdamHGrimes | May 1, 2018 | Pullback, Trend Termination
I have found, over the years, solid results from trading a handful of patterns put in the proper context. Perhaps the most useful of those patterns in the pullback, which is simply a pause in an ongoing trend. Of course, how well you do trading pullbacks will depend...
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 | Mar 31, 2016 | Pullback, Trading tools, Trend Termination
One of the key challenges for discretionary traders is balancing short-term and longer-term information. Err too far on either side, and bad things will happen: Focus too much on short-term, and we are overly responsive to every jiggle of the market, constantly...
by AdamHGrimes | Dec 15, 2015 | Trend Termination
One of the themes I’ve written on recently is that we need to be careful how we think about trend change and end of trend patterns. I think too much of noise, particularly in social media, is focused on trying to take a position against a trend so that the...
