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The Blog of Adam H Grimes

I teach people to make money in financial markets.

Introducing PowerLevels

Introducing PowerLevels

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:10/12/2020
  • Post category:Trading tools
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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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Reader question: What is KPos?

Reader question: What is KPos?

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:10/10/2020
  • Post category:Trading tools
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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https://youtu.be/cx1Sbk8aGDo

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Trendlines in the DJIA: What Can We Learn About Market Structure?

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:04/16/2018
  • Post category:Climax / Trading tools
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A quick lesson on trendlines and what they can tell us about market dynamics. Take a look at a fairly long-term chart of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (below) with…

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Stock screens for trading day Thursday 10 August 2017

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:08/09/2017
  • Post category:Trading tools
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I've shared these screens for a while, and they will eventually be part of the new MarketLife project. Until we're live there, I'll keep sharing them here. Here is a…

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Video blog: how to use the stock screens

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:08/08/2017
  • Post category:Trading tools
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https://youtu.be/jD4L12m5xXA

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Trust your gut: the power of subjective chartreading

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:01/23/2017
  • Post category:Trading tools / Volatility
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I’ve looked deeply into ratios, levels, and their application to market data. I won’t rehash all of that work here, but, after literally years of research, the bottom line is…

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