Overview News commentators are asking anyone willing to make a comment about the Greek situation and we are told that Greece is a small part of the European Union, and virtually non-existent from the view of a U.S. investor. Why then, is there such an impact on our markets? Yesterday, the IMF told Australia …
Trend Strength Index One measure of market strength is our Trend Strength Index. Our Trend strategy is a composite of many trends, medium term to slow applied to about 250 stocks. When combined, these determine the position size of the current trade. If the faster trends are down but the slower one up, then the …
As a systematic trader I have spent a lot of time discovering ways to get a better entry price, all of them based on clear rules. A lot depends on your trade holding period, that is, whether you’re a short-term trader in for only 1 to 3 days, or a long-term trend follower with positions …
IMPROVING YOUR ENTRY PRICE As a systematic trader I have spent a lot of time discovering ways to get a better entry price, all of them based on clear rules. A lot depends on your trade holding period, that is, whether you’re a short-term trader in for only 1 to 3 days, or a long-term …
You can buy a lot of shares of a low-priced stock, and it can double in price quickly. It sounds like a golden opportunity. We’ll take a closer look at some stocks that are trading a low levels and decide if we want to participate. There are stocks that have always traded at a low …
Low-Priced Stocks: A Golden Opportunity or an Unreasonable Risk? Read More »
If you watch the financial networks, every event, every economic report, every price move is the most important move of the year. It can be exhausting. In previous years we used to watch the Money Supply, I don’t even remember why. These past two years we watch the Employment Report. If employment is up you …
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No, you’re not. Of course there are some exceptions, but let’s consider how the institutional managers handle the problem before we look at some examples. Unless you know that a specific trade is going to give you a bigger profit than others, you want to be sure that every trade you enter has the same …
Crude oil is a manipulated market, subject to the policies set by OPEC, although we underestimated its importance more recently. During the 1980s OPEC set the OGSP (Official Government Selling Price) at $18-$20/bbl (see left chart below). Some of the OPEC members cheated, loading ships with more crude than “contracted,” essentially discounting the price. This …
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