Most chart pattern books describe what patterns look like and claim they work. Thomas Bulkowski's contribution was to ask a harder question: how often do they actually work, and under…
Pradeep Bonde, known in trading communities as Stockbee, built his approach around a question that most trading educators avoid: not which stock to buy, but what makes a setup repeatable.…
Ed Seykota's contribution to trading is usually summarised as computerised trend following, and while that is accurate, it understates the more interesting part of his thinking. What makes Seykota worth…
The useful thing about studying Jim Rogers is not that he co founded the Quantum Fund with George Soros. It is the way he treats inactivity as a real part…
Benjamin Graham is not usually filed under trading. He is filed under investing, often as the patient grandfather of the field, the man who taught Warren Buffett to read a…
The useful thing about studying Jesse Livermore is not that he made several fortunes. It is that the same career also shows, in unusually clear form, how leverage, ego, and…
Paul Tudor Jones is most often introduced through one trade, his short positioning around the October 19, 1987 crash, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell about twenty two percent…
The useful thing about studying Nassim Taleb is not that he had a strong year around the 1987 crash. It is the framework he has built around how rare events…
Most traders spend a disproportionate amount of time on entry signals and almost no time on the mathematical structure of how much to risk on each trade. Ralph Vince spent…
What O'Neil understood about growth stocks was not that they were predictable, but that they shared recognisable patterns before their biggest moves. His research involved studying the price and volume…