Plain-English guides to technical indicators, settings, chart behavior, and practical trading rules for trend following and breakout strategies.
The bell rings at 9:30. A stock I have been watching gaps up 3.4% on a clean earnings beat, prints 86.20 in the first minute, fades to 84.10 by 9:45,…
A swing trader risks 2% of a $50,000 account on every trade. The rule has held since the first month of the journal. Then the VIX prints 38 on a…
You watched value lead for a quarter, then quality took over, then low-volatility ran for six weeks while everyone on your timeline argued about which single names to buy. The…
Two systems land on my desk with identical Sharpe ratios of 1.40. One of them spends 18 months grinding out a quiet equity curve with shallow 4% pullbacks. The other…
How to build a repeatable pre-trade checklist that filters setups through trend, volume, volatility, and position sizing gates before committing capital.
A stock gaps up four percent at the open. Volume runs ten times normal for the first thirty minutes. Price stalls near the 478 figure and the trader has to…
Reading volume reveals whether real participation backs a price move. How to interpret volume for breakouts, trends, and reversals before any indicator fires.
A trader looks at a chart that has just topped, pulled back, then bounced from a higher low. The question that matters is whether the bounce is a small correction…
Survivorship bias inflates backtest returns by hiding failed stocks. Learn how to build a data universe that includes delistings, mergers, and bankruptcies.
The October 2022 print stuck with me. CPI ran 7.7%, the Fed had taken funds from 0 to 3.75% in seven months, the 2s10s spread sat at minus 50 basis…