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Derry Brown Joins STS
Today, Derry Brown has joined our expert panel. Derry brings with him a fantastic knowledge of building and testing robust trading models. Derry emphesizes how important it is to properly develop...
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Rotational Trading: A Simple And Powerful Concept
This time I want to cover a topic that hasn’t been covered here before: rotational trading. First I’ll give you some background as to why you should look into rotational trading and later I will...
View ArticleConcepts In Technical Analysis
Here is a free PDF download of basic technical analysis concepts provided by Merrill Lynch. No signups. No opt-in. Just a free download.
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Golden Cross – Which is the best?
The Golden Cross typically referrers to the crossing of the 50 and 200 Day Simple Moving Averages. When the shorter term average moves above the longer term average this is seen by many as the...
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Price-Volume Ratio Identifies Reversals
Sometimes the simplest ideas work the best. Before market peaks, shares typically transition from strong (institutional) hands to weak (retail) hands. Before market troughs, shares usually move from...
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How To Identify Algorithmic Trading Strategies
In this article I want to introduce you to the methods by which I myself identify profitable algorithmic trading strategies. Our goal today is to understand in detail how to find, evaluate and select...
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S&P 500 Trading with ConnorsRSI
Larry Connors of the 2-period RSI fame has recently published a new book available on the Kindle. It’s called S&P 500 Trading with ConnorsRSI. From the Amazon website… S&P 500 Trading Strategy...
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Testing The Ivy-10 Portfolio Ranking Score
It’s been just about six months since I’ve had an Ivy-10 Portfolio update. In this article I want to give a performance update for the Ivy-10 portfolio, answer a reader’s question and test the...
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Testing Market Regime Indicators
Often when designing a system it’s important to keep the big picture in mind. What is the overall market doing? The most simple way to accomplish this is to break the market into two regimes: bullish...
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Stochastic Oscillator (SO) – Test Results
The Stochastic Oscillator (SO) is a widely used momentum indicator. As part of the Technical Indicator Fight for Supremacy we have put it to the test through 16 different global markets~ (a total of...
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Using Excel In Developing Profitable Trading Strategies
For those of you who like to use Excel when developing profitable trading strategies, you may want to check out these two books… Developing Profitable Trading Strategies: A Beginner’s Guide to...
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500% in 3 Years – great work guys!
10 days before the third anniversary of the Trading Den, yesterday we hit a major milestone – we past the 500% profit mark. I think that is a result to be proud of, not in the least because this...
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Book: Statistically Sound Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading of...
This book was just released and looks interesting… “This book serves two purposes. First, it teaches the importance of using sophisticated yet accessible statistical methods to evaluate a trading...
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Two Dimensional Market Environment Filter
In this article I’m going to demonstrate a technique to help adapt your trading systems to the changing market conditions. In a previous article entitled, “Trend Testing Indicators“, I tested several...
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Best Stock Market Indicator Ever: Rises to 85%; Secondaries Are Negative
The $OEXA200R (the percentage of S&P 100 stocks above their 200 DMA) is a technical indicator available on StockCharts.com used to find the “sweet spot” time period in the market when you have the...
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Fooled by Randomness – A Summary Version For Kindle
I read Nassim book, Fooled by Randomness, and liked it a lot. In fact, I should revisit it again. In short, the author discusses the Black Swan and how important they are in everyones life. A Black...
View ArticlePredictive-Model Based Trading Systems
Trading financial instruments in an objective systematic fashion has numerous advantages over subjective approaches: Intelligently designed automated trading systems can and often do outperform human...
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Moving Averages – Simple vs. Exponential
In this round of testing we put the Simple (SMA), Exponential (EMA) and Double Exponential (D-EMA) Moving Averages through their paces to identify which is the best and what characteristics can be...
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Capture The Big Moves!
Wouldn’t it be great to have an indicator to help tell you when we are in a major bull or bear market? Imagine if you had a clear signal to exit the market on January 19, 2008 before the major market...
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Top Six Most Engaging Articles
I created System Trader Success two years ago. Every week since then a new article on system trading has been posted. Today marks the 100th post of System Trader Success. I want to personally thank...
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