Plain-English guides to technical indicators, settings, chart behavior, and practical trading rules for trend following and breakout strategies.
A stock runs for three sessions and the message board fills with one number. Short interest is 22 percent, someone posts, so the squeeze is coming. I've watched that exact…
A screen you built over the weekend just lit up. Across ten years of history it turned a modest stake into something that looks a lot like skill: the equity…
You close the week with a position down three percent, and there's a question worth asking before you touch anything: does the loss say something about your thesis, or did…
You are up on a position. The chart has run your way for six sessions, the gain is real on the screen, and the only question left is where you…
You're long a clean setup. Price has held a shelf for two sessions, the anchored VWAP off the low keeps rising, and order flow has leaned to the bid since…
You pull up a chart of a stock that's clearly been climbing for months. The 50-day moving average sits comfortably above the 200-day, so your trend filter says long. Then…
A stock runs 30% in six sessions, then goes quiet. The candles shrink, the volume dries up, and price drifts sideways for a week. Most traders read that stall as…
You've got a chart in front of you and a decision to make before you touch a single indicator: reach for a breakout tool that assumes the move keeps running,…
You have two versions of the same trend system in front of you. One is a single line of code: take each market's own return series, smooth it with a…
A stock posts a clean earnings beat, raises guidance, and the tape barely moves. It sits four percent under its 52-week high and drifts sideways for three weeks while the…