Trailing stops: 9 ideas you can use today
Trade management is at least as important as trade entry, and maybe a lot more important. There are two main tools for trading management: profit targets and stops. From these…
Reader question: what do I do when I miss the move?
Dimitar sent a question, and I bet he’s not the only trader who struggles with this: Hi Adam, I am part time private Trader. I read regularly your blog articles…
Reader question: how active with exits?
Let's go to the mailbag for a question. Reader Anthony asks: I have a bit of an internal psychological dilemma going on at the moment. I place my stops usually…
Exits: know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em
We all focus a lot of attention, perhaps too much attention, on where to buy and sell a market, on where to enter trades. Today, let's spend some time looking…
Chart of the Day: Stops on Treasuries
The chart of the 30 Year Treasury futures shows an important formation. First, we are short Treasuries, (in my published research) and have been for a while; the trade has…
We Have Met the Enemy…
It is a simple choice: continue to be angry at the way the market moves, or align with it
Trading the Unexpected
A pattern in volatility can sometimes give a directional tilt to the market, but, more importantly, how do we know when a trade is wrong and what do we do about it?
Reader Question: Intraday Position Sizing?
A reader asks how to quickly calculate position sizes for intraday trades.