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Breakouts and breakout failures: real world trading

Post author:AdamHGrimes
Post published:04/09/2021
Post category:Breakout Failure Test
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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

Post author:AdamHGrimes
Post published:07/20/2020
Post category:Breakout
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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

Post author:AdamHGrimes
Post published:01/13/2020
Post category:Support / Resistance
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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…

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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No, it’s not all the same.

Post author:AdamHGrimes
Post published:02/22/2016
Post category:Breakout Quantitative analysis
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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…