Matt asked: From: Matth<snip> To: Ken Long <longke@yahoo.com> Sent: Monday, December 30, 2013 8:11 PM Subject: Beliefs Hi Ken: Been working on on my mission statements and business trading plan. I would like to model you – day trading (if you have no objections) What are your beliefs that I could/should find useful. Thanks Matt =========================== my preliminary […]
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Why trade?
I have to trade because of the intellectual and emotional challenge and the satisfaction I get from trading well. I love to trade because I find it interesting, and it challenges me every day to discover who I am and what I can do. I like to trade because it combines my passions for action, research, intellectual challenge and adaptation. Trading […]
Live trading workshop and research weekend summary
we had: 1. options trading and grain trading presentations from career traders in those lines of business which were outstanding. 2. Hunter’s discussions of Value Area based on volume stats and market profile were superb and very helpful during a volatile week 3. numerous analytics of various implementations of some of my systems and the […]
weekend strategy report for July 16, 200
Market in Bull Normal; Market is Oversold on a short term basis Equities sold off this week, with volatility increasing slightly Blended monthly rebalancing, current holdings: 26 ETF portfolio: FXF, IYR, IEV 13 ETF portfolio: IYR, DIA, EFA next re-evaluation on/about 1 Aug ETF2 notes: no change, adjust stops Theoretical exposure is recommended at 50%; […]
Weekend report review, exec summary for Jul 09, 2011
Market in Bull Normal; Market is Overbought on a short term basis Equities maintained the gains this week, with volatility declining slightly inspite of weak employment numbers Blended monthly rebalancing, current holdings: 26 ETF portfolio: FXF, IYR, IEV 13 ETF portfolio: IYR, DIA, EFA next re-evaluation on/about 1 Aug ETF2 notes: no change, adjust stops […]
Tradestation system bundles ready to go
The TradeStation Bundle2 is just about finished; I was proofing the code and appearance today and in the words of Bill Brower, Tradestation programming wizard: “This is very cool” The “Alphastat” which uses linear regression lines and statistics to define trends, can be applied to any number of symbols in order to find those symbols, […]
Blended monthly rebalancing strategy
Beginning July 1st I will be shifting the 331, 631 and 333 strategies to a “Blended Monthly Rebalancing” strategy in this space. As a result of the hard work and backtesting of many mastermind members I am satisfied that we have found a ruleset that offers improved reward:risk, and risk management. The 3 systems we […]
weekend strategy report, June 04, n2011
Market in Bull Normal; Market is neutral on a short term basis Equities remained sideways all week, with volatility increasingly slightly Rebalancingproject: Monthly rebalancing : next re-evaluation on/about 1 June 331 is holding IYR, EEM, TLT 631 is holding IYR, MDY, IWM Quarterly rebalancing: next re-evaluation on/about 1 July. 333 is holding DIA, MDY, IWM; […]
Important insights from one of our workshop participants this week: a ton of good learning inside these ideas Our initial stop placement reflects the information available when our trade is initiated. Any price action after the trade provides additional information and can be used to update the stop placement. An example is the use of […]
defining critical price levels for any trading target
Price levels you should know for any target in your asset allocation strategy Minimum mandatory exposure Minimum price level indicating RS momentum advantage Limit of Maximum rational outperformance Maximum outperformance in the lookback period Maximum outperformance since the target began trading Your estimate for next new high? Related articles Price-level targeting: no chance (ftalphaville.ft.com) Wholesale Price […]