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    Read more about the article Return to day trading—a new series of blog posts

    Return to day trading—a new series of blog posts

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:03/25/2023
    • Post category:Psychology/Trader Development
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    I’ve been doing some exciting and challenging work recently, and want to share some of it with you. A quick biographical sketch, for those of you who don’t know me:…

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    Read more about the article A big blog post: music, creativity, trading, a new book, and more

    A big blog post: music, creativity, trading, a new book, and more

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:02/12/2023
    • Post category:General Comments

    It’s been a while since I’ve written here. You’ve probably seen the weekly updates, under the Markets Unlocked tag—these have been useful, high-level summaries of market conditions and things we’re…

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    Read more about the article The worst thing that a daytrader can do

    The worst thing that a daytrader can do

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:04/22/2022
    • Post category:General Comments/Psychology/Trader Development

    Yesterday, a trader I have worked with a bit over the years (let’s call him M) pinged me with this real-money equity curve: (For the record, that's a pretty good…

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    Read more about the article Using highs and lows

    Using highs and lows

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:10/09/2019
    • Post category:Intraday Trading/Support / Resistance

    How do we know how that market is doing on any day? If we turn on the news, we will hear something like “the Dow Jones is up 40 points…”,…

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    What we learned about price levels

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:05/24/2019
    • Post category:Intraday Trading/Quantitative analysis/Support / Resistance

    This is part 2 of a two part blog. Read the first part here. Quick summary: to test the validity of price levels in markets, we created a test in…

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    When is a human better than a machine? Using human discretion in quantitative testing.

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:05/22/2019
    • Post category:Quantitative analysis/Support / Resistance

    First, thank you to each of you who participated in the experiment/quiz. We have stopped collecting data, but you can re-take the quiz and see which answers were right or…

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    Daytrading the S&P 500: Intraday trend structure and setup

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:05/21/2019
    • Post category:Intraday Trading

    Thinking in checklists is useful, especially for shorter-term traders. Every market situation is full of rich and complex nuance. Every moment in the market (or in life) is unique because…

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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

    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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    Chartschool: The importance of the previous day’s high / low

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:09/26/2018
    • Post category:Support / Resistance/Trading tools

    https://youtu.be/cx1Sbk8aGDo

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    Chartschool: daytrading setups and context

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:09/11/2018
    • Post category:General Comments

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMmphbbC4ew&feature=youtu.be

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    Choosing the best pullbacks

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:08/04/2017
    • Post category:Pullback

    Trading is a game of choices. Over time, we hope to make more good choices than bad. Sometimes, the choices are obvious: control your risk, take disciplined trades, be mindful…

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    Finding trend days in index futures

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:09/16/2015
    • Post category:Breakout/Volatility

    I've written on this topic before, but we just had a good example in the market, so it's a great time to revisit. Many intraday traders find that most of…

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    Catching the wave: ideas for finding trend days

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:06/30/2015
    • Post category:Trader Development/Trading tools

    I received a question from Alex, which appears to be a simple question. Digging deeper, it actually drives straight to the essence of intraday trading: If I am wanting to…

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    Chart of the day: Short term setup in S&P 500 (6/5/15)

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:06/05/2015
    • Post category:Chart of the Day

    Yesterday’s moderately strong downtrend came within higher timeframe consolidation. This is still a market primed for a stronger trend move. Do not fade a break above or below key levels…

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    Chart of the day: S&P 500 short term setup (6/4/15)

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:06/04/2015
    • Post category:Chart of the Day

    This is still a market seeking a catalyst, though bullish factors continue to accumulate. Look for a strong rally above the 2121-2124 level; do not fade a breakout that holds…

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    It’s all in a day’s work

    • Post author:AdamHGrimes
    • Post published:06/03/2015
    • Post category:Intraday Trading

    I want to share a few observations on trading activity during the trading day. I will focus on the S&P 500 futures here, but may extend this (if there's interest)…

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