Chart of the day: bear flag in Treasury futures
A market that is often a focal point for political opinion, fears, and speculation. None of that is necessary when your trading plan has an edge...
Post election market analysis and overview
I want to share a video I did for my research subscribers this week. Though this is a few days old, it's still valuable. I would like you to think…
Basic backtesting in Excel: Conditions, logic, and stats
Pat yourself on the back if you've come this far in the little backtesting mini-course. After many posts, we've basically gotten data into a spreadsheet and calculated some moving averages.…
Basic backtesting in Excel: graphs and first calculations
Continuing on with the short series on backtesting in Excel, let's look at some tools to visualize data and make some simple calculations. Excel is a good tool for quick…
Basic backtesting in Excel: issues with data
If you've been following along with the short Excel course, you've created a spreadsheet using SPY daily data, and added daily TLT data to the sheet in another column. I…
Basic backtesting in Excel: More data
Today, we will add another data series to our file we created yesterday that had daily SPY data in it. It's not quite as simple as pasting the new data…
Five charts to start the week
I thought it might be useful to star the week with a look at trends and possible inflections in a number of major markets. Here's a quick look at stocks,…
What matters more than your process?
So, we live in a world in which investors are nervous. Everyone knows the Fed is going to raise rates, it's only a question of when and how much. Everyone…
A few thoughts, at the end of a historic trading day
Before I call it a day, I thought I'd share a few thoughts with you. For those of you finding this post later, US stocks broke down Thursday of last…
Technicals for everyone: overbought / oversold
Continuing from yesterday's post, I wanted to dig a little bit deeper into the idea of what happens when markets go too far, too fast and snap back. This concept…
Current market overview: weekly webinar
This is an important time in global markets. Equities are at a potentially important inflection, and short term noise may be misleading many players. Currencies have had some fantastic moves,…