Plain-English guides to technical indicators, settings, chart behavior, and practical trading rules for trend following and breakout strategies.
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.…
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…