Trader’s Narrative

I find the fractal nature of financial markets fascinating. You can look at a minute chart, a 30 minute chart, a daily chart, a weekly chart and you will see basically the same formations, the same elemental forces of support and resistance and the same setups.

As a trader, you can use this to your advantage. […]

A few weeks ago Maoxian was going over his call in mid September 2006 to lighten up on the energy sector. As it turned out, that was the time to actually put money to work. I piped in saying that if you were watching the bullish percent chart for the sector, you would have noticed […]

Here are some great place to get (free) weekly wrap-up analysis of the week that was and get insight into what may be around the corner:
Dave Landry
Dave is a CTA, author of several trading books as well as co-founder of TradingMarkets.com His videos are quite long (30+ min) and I find Dave’s old-school use bar […]

Wouldn’t you love to take all your losses and combine them to magically create a profit?
Parrondo’s Paradox says this is theoretically possible. According to Parrondo’s paradox, two games guaranteed to make a player lose all his money will generate a winning streak if played alternately.
In other words, alternate between listening to Jim Cramer and listening […]

As much as trading seems complicated, or perhaps, as much as we fall into the trap of making it complicated, there are really only three types of trades you could ever put on. In order of difficulty, here they are:
With the Trend
Trading with the trend is perhaps the most common, and I would argue the […]