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Read more about the article Five Years of Data: Proving the Real Edge in a Pullback Trading Tool

Five Years of Data: Proving the Real Edge in a Pullback Trading Tool

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:10/02/2024
  • Post category:Pullback/Quantitative analysis/Trading tools

There are many things I love about the markets. Yes, I love the idea of getting paid for solving the puzzle or playing the game. I love learning. I even…

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Read more about the article Beyond Patterns: Rethinking Candlesticks

Beyond Patterns: Rethinking Candlesticks

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:05/12/2023
  • Post category:Technical Patterns/The Hudson Sessions/Trading tools

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…

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Read more about the article Make the Market Be Your Teacher

Make the Market Be Your Teacher

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:03/31/2023
  • Post category:Trader Development/Trading tools

“Learn from the market. Let the market be your teacher.” This sounds like the path to true trading wisdom (and it is), but there’s an obvious question: how do we…

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Read more about the article Putting the Puzzle Together: A Miniseries on Chartreading

Putting the Puzzle Together: A Miniseries on Chartreading

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:04/01/2022
  • Post category:Technical Patterns/Trading tools

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…

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Read more about the article Introducing PowerLevels

Introducing PowerLevels

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:10/12/2020
  • Post category:Trading tools

Levels are everywhere in trading. There are thousands of ways to find, define, use, and misuse levels. Many levels simply don’t have an edge. In this blog post, I want…

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Read more about the article Reader question: What is KPos?

Reader question: What is KPos?

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:10/10/2020
  • Post category:Trading tools

Kpos is short for "Keltner Position" and it boils down many elements of price action into a single number. I want to share some ideas for using this powerful tool,…

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‘Tis the season… or is it? A deeper look at seasonality in stocks.

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:11/29/2018
  • Post category:Market Math/Trading tools

This is a followup to my previous post that included a visualization of seasonal tendencies for about 90 years of the US stock market. A visualization like that is a good…

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How to learn about indicators

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:11/26/2018
  • Post category:Trading tools

This weekend, a reader, Paul, asked: In my limited understanding, Rsi, cci and % r are all basically trying to show the same thing When is one better than the…

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S&P 500 futures activity by time of day

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:11/14/2018
  • Post category:Intraday Trading/Trading tools/Volatility

Most people know that stock markets tend to be much more active on the open and close, and are often "dead" in the middle of the day. This is important…

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When percents fail

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:11/11/2018
  • Post category:Market Math/Trading tools/Volatility

Let's think a bit about "signal generation". When we test something in the market what we're looking for is an answer to "What happens after _______ occurs?" This is really…

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Understanding intermarket relationships with scatterplots

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:10/22/2018
  • Post category:Market Math/Trading tools

Please read my last post first, before you begin this one. I ended the last post by suggesting that we were probably more interested in changes than in price levels.…

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Chartschool: The importance of the previous day’s high / low

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:09/26/2018
  • Post category:Support / Resistance/Trading tools

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Reading the chart of Ethereum with sigma spikes: cryptocurrencies aren’t so cryptic after all…

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:09/05/2018
  • Post category:Trading tools/Volatility

One of the tools I’ve come to rely on over the last 10 years is an indicator I call Sigma Spikes. (Read about it and how to calculate here.) This…

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Do you have a pre-trade checklist?

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:08/21/2018
  • Post category:Trader Development/Trading tools

Consistency in trading results requires consistency of process. If you are doing something different every time you trade, it’s hard to evaluate your results. A simple pre-trade checklist can help…

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Working on a new way to view charts

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:05/10/2018
  • Post category:Trading tools

I change slowly. The last major change I made to my trading was in 2005, and the smaller changes I've made since then are tiny, incremental changes. Often, they're just…

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Reader question: stop vs stop limit orders

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:05/07/2018
  • Post category:Trading tools

I received a good question from J last week: As you know, I’ve recently switched to using Stop Limit orders for entries after experiencing a lot of slippage last month…

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