Plain-English guides to technical indicators, settings, chart behavior, and practical trading rules for trend following and breakout strategies.
A commodity chart can mislead you without a single bad print. Pull up a multi-year continuous chart for crude oil or natural gas, watch it grind higher, and it's tempting…
Two charts of the same stock, side by side, and they disagree. One shows a long climb toward 100.00 that halves to 50.00 in a single session. The other runs…
You open a backtest and one line stops you. The strategy, it reports, only performs in the low-volatility regime. Somewhere a stretch of the chart has been tagged calm and…
The index closed up eight tenths of a percent, and my watchlist was a wall of red. Most of the names I follow finished lower on the day, yet the…
Two fund fact sheets sit open on my screen. One reports portfolio turnover of 28 percent for the year. The other reports 165 percent. The instinct is to read the…
An equity curve slopes up and to the right, smooth, barely a drawdown across ten years. It reads like a finished strategy. Then you check one detail: the ranking that…
Pull ten years of daily data into a backtest, fit a trend filter that looks clean across the whole sample, then run it forward and watch it come apart. I've…
On the last Friday of June, a full year of index reconstitution lands in a single closing auction. I keep that date circled because the tape turns strange into the…
A few years back I held six positions spread across different sectors, the kind of book that looks diversified on paper. On the three worst sessions of that stretch, all…
Picture a stock you follow going quiet in the middle of the session. The tape stops printing, the bid and ask freeze, and for five minutes nothing trades at all.…