The power of an inside bar
Just a quick lesson here, but an important one. Take a look at the chart above. Was there anything that could have helped us predict the breakdown on that last…
Bear flags in cryptos
This morning, Tom says to me "Cryptos are looking like good shorts." He's right. Take a look at the daily chart of Bitcoin Cash: Recently broke below a channel with…
YouTube series: Tom’s Trades
We've started a series of "quick hit" trade analysis on our MarketLife YouTube channel, done my my trading partner, Tom. These are all actual trades, with points of entry, trade…
What can we learn from the range?
Markets broadly exist in two states: trends or trading ranges. In other words, a market is happy with the current price (and accepts it) or is moving to another price.…
TradeLab: Reviewing some recent trades we published
I firmly believe the best trading lessons come from the market... and the best of the best trading lessons come from your own work and trading. Let me share some…
Chart of the day: NFLX
Good pattern to commit to memory. Probably not a great idea to initiate positions before earnings, but this is also not the only stock with this pattern right now...
Reader question: How to handle exits?
Glenn comes back today with another good question. Here's his full, unedited question: Your many hats, your one job, the one and only thing that matters. For what it is…
No, it’s not all the same
I'm convinced that one of the biggest lies of traditional technical analysis (TA) is that "you can apply any tool to any market or any timeframe with the same results."…
Chart of the Day: Breakout in the S&P 500
One of the tools I use to evaluate market action is the standard deviation spike, which expresses each day's return a standard deviation of the previous 20 trading days. (This…
Chart of the Day: Potential Failure Test in Beans
The most important levels in markets are those that are clearly visible to all market participants. The July pivot high in Soybeans is a good example of an important level…
Chart of the Day: Consolidation Near Bottom of Range in Corn Futures
Two things to note on this chart of Corn futures: 1) The clean failure test above the summer's highs, followed by a sharp selloff to the bottom of the range.…