To buy or not to buy…?
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…
Trading a long complicated pullback in the Dollar
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…
What to do with quiet markets?
Just a high level perspective on what we have going on in a few major markets this week. In general, most markets are in some kind of volatility compression. Volatility…
Experience meditation, starting today, starting now
The twenty two day guided meditation experience is now live. I will not be posting regular updates here, but follow me on twitter (@AdamHGrimes) or bookmark this page for daily…
Five questions to ask before each trade
Successful trading and investing is largely about asking the right questions. Many of the most serious mistakes we make come from blindly accepting our ideas and perceptions at face value.…
Lessons from pattern failures in gold
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…
February update: meditation, support and resistance, and coding
I want to share an email I sent to my blog subscribers last week. If you don't get these updates, please sign up in the sidebar. There will be more…
Video blog: time to buy crude oil?
http://youtu.be/wCUW_KIwxEk A look at current conditions in crude oil, and some general comments on how to fade a trend.
Meditation: what can go wrong
Yesterday's post ended with a look at some of the effects and benefits of meditation, and some recent studies that show meditation is able to change your body and your…
Meditation: what it is and what it does
Talking about meditation seems to be the current rage in investing/trading circles. Everyone is writing and talking about meditation, maybe taking some courses, reading a few books, but there are…
Using spread charts
This is another post in the small series on tracking, understanding, and trading relative performance. In previous posts, we looked at two ways to track relative performance as a percent…
Multi-asset relative strength comparisons
My previous post looked at the concept of comparing relative strength of two assets by comparing returns from a specific point in time. In that post, I suggested using a…
Showing relative performance: simple charts
Yesterday, I discussed some reasons why traders might want to consider looking at, or trading, the relative performance between markets. Today, let's look at a simple way to display that…
Four reasons to trade spreads
Today I begin a short series of posts looking at the tools and techniques of relative value trading. For some traders, this is intuitive; currencies are always valued relative to…
Looking ahead…
Well, looks like 2015 is here with a bang, and markets kick off the year with some volatility. Though we often focus on short term patterns and flows, it pays…
How to draw trend lines
One of the complaints leveled against technical analysis is that tools are primarily visual and subjective, rather than being true analytical tools. There certainly is some truth to these complaints…
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