Bet Small: Survive and Thrive
When the market is range-bound and whipsawing I find it more productive to read and do research about trading rather than practice trading in a difficult environment. While searching around the web, I...
View ArticleTrade With The Trend While Trading Against It: Part 1
Traders who have not added to their arsenal some form of mean-reversion trading methodology really missed a banner year (2008) for that style of trading. Traders considering making the transition from...
View ArticleTrade With The Trend While Trading Against It: Part Two
Now I will present the system to be used for the study that was described in Part One. The System The system uses an entry and exit signal generated from the CCI (Commodity Channel Index) indicator....
View ArticleTrade With The Trend While Trading Against It: Part Three
Parts One and Two established the framework and system to use for the study. Now it is time to get to the meat of the study: How can we combine elements of trend-trading to a system that often trades...
View ArticleATR Position-Sizing and Stops Can Be Superior
Customary position-sizing has the trader buy X number of shares and set a stop to so that he does not lose more than X dollars. One drawback of this method is that it does not account for the...
View ArticleATR Position-Sizing and Stops Can Be Superior: Part 2
Link to Part 1. Part 1 established the following: A stock’s movement is its volatility. Average True Range (ATR) is a measure of volatility. ATR can be used to position-size to account for volatility....
View ArticlePower Dip Stop-Loss Studies: 5% Stop
On the subscriber site, there is a fair amount of discussion about stops and position-sizing. The two issues actually go hand-in-hand. I want to address this relationship between stops and...
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