Picture an account that closes most days in the red and still finishes the year well ahead. The journal reads as a wall of small losses, the equity curve grinds…
Two stocks break out to a new 52-week high on the same morning. Same chart pattern, same volume surge, same clean handle. Six weeks later one has added 40 percent…
A trader sees a tight base break on the daily chart at 47.20. Volume is heavy. The candle closes near the high. They buy the breakout, get filled, and watch…
Most losing trades I review have nothing wrong with the entry pattern. The flag was clean, the volume looked decent, the stop was in a sensible place. The problem sits…
I look back at one of my own ledgers and the pattern is always the same. Eight months of small losses and tiny scratches, the equity curve flat enough to…
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…
Two stocks rallied 30% last quarter. One sits in the top decile of its sector by relative strength. The other delivered the same return while half its sector did better.…
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…
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…