Trend Following Systems: Three Ways to Read a Trend
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…
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…
Marty Schwartz became widely known in trading circles through his chapter in Jack Schwager's Market Wizards and through his own memoir Pit Bull: Lessons from Wall Street's Champion Trader. What made him interesting…
The practical case for studying Gil Morales and Chris Kacher is not the headline return figures their accounts reportedly produced during the late 1990s. Those numbers come from one of…
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…
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…
Most traders who study Oliver Kell focus on his 2020 U.S. Investing Championship win and assume the story is about finding the right stocks at the right time. The more…
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…
A trend you spotted on Monday closes red on Wednesday. The next day it closes red again. By Friday you have exited a position that, two weeks later, is still…
A stock prints flat for three weeks. Closes hug the 20-day moving average. Daily volume bars look ordinary. Nothing on the chart screams. Then one Tuesday it gaps 6% on…
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.…