Knowing the future with market stats
So, you’ve seen the headlines and, if you somehow missed it when it happened, you know that last week was a period of historically high volatility in the stock indexes.…
Chartschool: do your own homework
In this video, I show you how to use an Excel spreadsheet and, in just a few minutes, get some basic answers about market tendencies and market stats. https://youtu.be/d6Ob19DMLlk
Basic backtesting in Excel: How to keep learning
My goal was to put simple, but powerful, tools into your hands so you can start doing the work to understand how the market moves. In this, the last, post…
It’s all in a day’s work
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)…
Bad statistics lead to bad decisions: the first day of the month effect
It is easy to calculate statistics, and it seems like, more and more, we are bombarded with market statistics from every side. The problem is that many of those statistics…
Testing Fibonaccis (1/2)
Warning: this blog post is not appropriate for all readers. You may find it challenging or disturbing, especially if you are not open to questioning some long-held beliefs. Reader discretion…