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 […]
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Profitable ETF Trading Strategies: developing a new oscillator, the NDX()
In my last article I described two problems that I had with the otherwise excellent technical indicator known as Williams %R. I just like the scale which goes from zero to -100 which seems counterintuitive, and I don’t like that uses today’s price action when calculating the index value which hides information concerning breakout days. […]
Profitable ETF Trading Strategies: a closer look at Williams%R with 2 improvements
In a previous article, I described how I use Williams %R as a useful oscillator in determining an asset can be considered an overbought or oversold conditions based on the context of recent price action in a defined look back period. I like to use 10 days and one year for context. I use the […]
Profitable ETF Trading Strategies: understanding Williams%R, a simple oscillator
Oscillators are tools of technical analysis that are used to identify periods of time when price can be considered in an overbought or oversold condition. The overbought and oversold conditions are found at the extremes which vary based on how the oscillator is constructed. Some oscillators look exclusively at price with respect to the range […]
Profitable ETF Trading Strategies: a brief look at technical analysis
If you are a trader that uses technical analysis, or if you are just considering applying some technical techniques to enhance your investing and trading strategies, my recommendation is make sure you start with just a few tools, and understand them thoroughly, rather than flit about from tool to tool like a bee investigating flowers. […]
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 […]
Profitable ETF Trading Strategies: my 10 best reasons for joining a mastermind
I have been a member of a trading mastermind for year and a half and have found it to be one of the most powerful edges in my arsenal as a trader. I cannot recommend a mastermind too highly to anyone interested in improving their trading practice, no matter what their skill level may be. […]
Profitable ETF Trading Strategies: how to trade the opening gap
There are literally hundreds of tactical trading books in the marketplace these days. Almost every one of them will discuss the authors favored strategy or strategies for trading the opening gap. The strategies are typically framed as a set of trading heuristic rules, of more or less complexity, and they’re backed up with assertions of […]
Profitable ETF Trading Strategies: are trailing stops better than fixed profit targets??
There is a long-standing and interesting debate on the subject of when to use profit targets and when to use trailing stops for successful trades. There are passionate advocates on both sides of the debate who believe that their answer is correct for all trades, all styles and in all conditions. My personal opinion is […]
Profitable ETF Trading Strategies: reflecting on technical and fundamental analysis
To my way of understanding, technical analysis is the application of various forms of mathematical and statistical analysis to the study and description of the price movement of an asset (for me, a stock or an exchange traded fund usually)on a graph or in data tables, with the idea being that we can increase our […]