building on Friday’s momentum (or putting in the first peg of support) all the precious metals are up in the overnight trade; silver is in a perfect “max pain range compression” stage here, ready to break out of Friday’s relatively tight range in either direction with advantage Related articles Here’s What That Huge Commodity Fund […]
Category: Uncertainty
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Managed risks?
Image via Wikipedia The risks now? Risk of being left behind if the fear was an anomaly and there is now the mother of all buying opportunities: my strategy? Continue to trade intraday with no overnight risk, at my usual levels of risk, in large cap US companies, and broad index ETFs, in either direction […]
A reflection on action research “storytelling”
What follows is a 1st person, stream of consciousness reflection written to my mentor & committee chair. I describe what it was like to record a 10 min video “telling the story” of some preliminary findings emerging from my action research cycles into curriculum and adult learning. The video is hosted at YouTube. It […]
Profitable ETF Trading Strategies: the power of back testing
The purpose of this article is to make the strongest case possible for back testing as a crucially important way of understanding your system. In other articles I will suggest that too much back testing is bad and that you can learn too many wrong lessons if you’re not careful. That said however, back testing […]
Profitable ETF Trading Strategies: understanding your span of control
The military describes managing current operations as command and control. One of the most important concepts in command and control is the idea of span the control. Span of control describes how many simultaneous, subordinate operations you can successfully manage at appropriate level of detail given the current situation of uncertainty, stress and pressure. […]
Profitable ETF Trading Strategies: can I make a living as a mechanical trader?
The short answer is: no, you cannot make a living as a mechanical trader. In fact, you cannot make a living as any kind of trader, mechanical or otherwise. This doesn’t mean that you are a bad person or stupid or somehow lack the qualities needed to be a success in life. It is simply […]
Profitable ETF Trading Strategies: the power of re-entry
Every short-term trader has had the experience of exiting a position to preserve a profit only to see the position immediately resume its favorable ways without you on board. Most traders have kicked themselves for letting these profits get away and have sat on the sidelines watching the position continued to grow without them. […]
Profitable ETF Trading Strategies: insights from cognitive neuroscience
Cognitive neuroscience has found seven important findings about how your brain is wired that affect your performance. 1. The way you sense information and the way your senses are connected to your brain are unique and diverse. 2. The more you use a particular style of cognition and sensing, the more developed that skill and […]
Profitable ETF Trading Strategies: applying Gladwell’s insights from “The Tipping Point”
Malcolm Gladwell’s excellent book “The Tipping Point” describes the common characteristics of mass psychology with respect to fans and trends. Even though it is just a popular psychology book, and has been criticized by some for its lack of academic rigor, I still think the book offers a lot of useful insights to the world […]
Profitable ETF Trading Strategies: profiting from a good story
Our trading mastermind has been developing a technique that we call trading narratives in order to develop low risk trading ideas that share the common feature of the acronym SLBG, or “small loss big gain”. We chose the word “narrative” to capture the idea that we have been developing story lines for our favorite trading […]