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How to Pairs Trade
If you’ve been trading for any length of time, you’ve probably noticed that the stocks you own have a tendency to move with the overall market. That’s great when the market goes in the direction that...
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Trading Option Straddles and Strangles: Part 1
One of the most powerful aspects of trading with options is that there’s an option strategy for almost any situation. Today we’re going to introduce two of those strategies: straddles and strangles....
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Hedgehogging
Somehow along the way I didn’t get a chance to read Barton Biggs classic book Hedgehogging until this past week. What a gem. If you’re interested in getting inside the minds of one of the great market...
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Trading Option Straddles and Strangles: Part 2
In the previous newsletter, we introduced two non-directional option strategies: straddles and strangles. Today we’ll discuss when to use these strategies, and how to evaluate their potential for...
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The Power of TPS
In 2008 we introduced a concept that we labeled TPS, which stands for: Time Price Scale-In Originally presented as a stand-alone strategy, the core ideas behind TPS have turned into a methodology that...
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4 Reasons to Zealously Track Your Trading Activity
Recording all of your trading activity can seem rather tedious at times. After all, you can easily check your brokerage account balance online anytime you want to, and your broker keeps a ledger of all...
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How to Use The TradingMarkets Screener – A Live Class with Larry Connors
The newly released TradingMarkets Screener offers an easy way to search and sort for specific stocks and ETFs that meet distinct criteria that you select by using key technical indicators. In this...
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The Death of Intra-day Reversals?
If you speak to enough traders, you’ll hear a general consensus that the market has changed the past few years, especially last year. High volatility securities which used to mean revert, didn’t do so...
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Trading Beyond the Matrix
I’d like to recommend a new book on trading psychology just published by Van Tharp. I began reading it Sunday night and the book goes far deeper than any trading psychology book I’ve ever read. Also,...
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How to Use the New Symbol Details Page on TradingMarkets
One of the many new features in the new TradingMarkets Analytics section is our Symbol Detail page. On the Symbol Detail Page you can receive live readings on ConnorsRSI which allows you to see how...
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Time and Volatility in S&P 500 Options
Well written time and volatility spreads piece by the CME: http://www.cmegroup.com/education/files/time-and-volatility-2013-06-10.p…
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The Road to Successful Trading
Here is a new book on trading from Don Miller, a long time contributor to the TradingMarkets website. Yesterday Amazon made it one of their recommended business books of the month....
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Analyzing VXX Trading
Russell Rhoads is one of my favorite analysts when it comes to trading the VIX and other volatility products. Here is an article that he wrote which was republished this weekend. There’s very good...
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Quantitative Research Goldmine
I’ve mentioned this site before and it’s worth mentioning again because of the depth of research fund on it. The Whole Street http://www.thewholestreet.com is a site which aggregates quantitative...
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Algorithmic Trading Strategies
Ernie Chan is one of my favorite researchers and I always enjoy reading his work. I just completed his new book “Algorithmic Trading: Winning Strategies and Their Rationale” and highly recommend it. I...
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How to Trade Multiple Up & Down Days in a Row
Traders know from experience, “what goes up, must come down.” And we know from the data that this is true. What goes up must come down Spinnin’ wheel got to go ’round Lyrics from Spinning Wheel –...
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The Significance of Closing Prices to Their Daily Bar Range
About a decade ago we quantified the significance of where a stock closes in its daily range and the short-term impact of that close. What we found was that oversold stocks that closed in the bottom of...
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New Short-Term Volatility Index
Good news from the CBOE with the launch of their new Short-Term Volatility Index – VXST: http://www.cboe.com/micro/VXST/default.aspx We’ll be all over this with new research once we have access to the...
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The Secrets of The World’s Greatest Traders
Even though this interview with was published over a year ago, it’s insight and wisdom is everlasting.
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ISE’s VolDex
The ISE believes they have created a cleaner version of the VIX with a new index they call VolDex. You can learn more about VolDex on the ISE website http://www.ise.com/etf-ventures/voldex-voli/
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