Perception vs reality: Lessons from Hudson Session 5
We are a little behind on these write-ups, but I want to share an outline and playback from Hudson Session 5, which was held on 24 June 2023. The Hudson…
Beyond the News: A Dive Into Breakout Behavior
Here are a few quick lessons drawn from today’s (Monday 10/9/23) action in the S&P 500 futures. Of course, we could draw many lessons any time we look at a…
Breakouts and breakout failures: real world trading
One of the disconnects for new traders is seeing how patterns play out in the real world. When we learn patterns, we usually start from pristine, idealized examples. But in…
This is how breakouts work: lessons from the S&P 500
Just a brief blog post here to share some pattern lessons from the S&P 500. First, context matters, and that context is: Bullish because of the existing uptrend from the…
Support and resistance… right now
Support and resistance is a controversial topic. Traders’ cognitive bias and random price motion conspire to play tricks on the mind. Many technical analysis books and gurus parrot conventional wisdom…
No, it’s not all the same.
In my last post, I showed a quick test of a simple system applied to the futures markets. The point of that post was to show how a simple quantitative…