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Trading Ideas And Systems: Keep It Simple, Smart Guy
One thing that I have discussed in numerous NAS Trading articles is the tendency for traders to believe that complex ideas and systems are inherently better or more desirable than simple, conceptual...
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A Simple S&P System
Last week’s article, Trading Ideas And Systems: Keep It Simple, Smart Guy, highlighted the virtues of building simple trading systems. Simple trading systems have a lot of advantages namely, being...
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Probability Tools For Better Forex Trading
In order to be successful, forex traders need to know the basic mathematics of probability. After all, it’s difficult to achieve and maintain trading gains without first having the ability to...
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S&P Overnight Trading Model
The last couple of articles I’ve written were highlighting simple trading models that could be the basis for a profitable trading system on the S&P market. These ideas would be suitable either for...
View ArticleAdvantages With Mechanical Strategies
A lot of the best traders (at least the ones I know) use some kind of mechanical rules in their trading. “Mechanical” implies that the rules are based on some kind of objective rules, usually...
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Trading Model vs. Trading System
A couple of weeks ago I presented a simple trading model that took advantage of the overnight edge on the S&P market. The article was entitled, “S&P Overnight Trading Model“, and it traded a...
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Finding Out What Works, And What Doesn’t Work
Many traders who try system trading have previously had difficulty at discretionary or manual trading. Most of these folks eventually recognize the benefit of trading a system with well defined rules –...
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Backtesting the MAC-System – How Long is Long Enough?
Most of us entrust our savings to financial organizations in the belief that this will provide us with better investment results than we could have achieved ourselves. These companies advocate a...
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Is The MAC System Overly Optimized?
In a recent article entitled, “Backtesting the MAC-System – How Long is Long Enough?“, the author presented a simple rotational trading system based upon moving averages. The system is one of the most...
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Modified Chartmill Value Indicator (MCVI)
I read about this indicator in an article titled “The Chartmill Value Indicator,” which appeared in the January 2013 issue of Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities. The article was written by...
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Finding Out What Works, And What Doesn’t Work – Part II
In Part 1 of this series, found here, I ran a simple study of a trading system, in order to look at some of the common components (such as end of day closes, short versus long bar periods) that many...
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MCVI Indicator and Strategy on Daily Charts
In a recent article, “Modified Chartmill Value Indicator“, the author presented an indicator that might prove helpful in your trading. The indicator is an oscillator which highlights overbought and...
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Testing A Simple Gap Strategy
I was recently reading a book (more like a pamphlet, it’s only 93 pages), “Seven Trading Systems for the S&P Futures” by David Bean. I’m always interested in “older” books that have defined rules...
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Improving The Simple Gap Strategy
Let’s try to improve upon the gap strategy that was provided by Ben Little’s article entitled, “Testing A Simple Gap Strategy.” In this article Ben demonstrated a simple trading model, called Gap Fade...
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Going Live With Automation
Going live with an automated strategy is one of the coolest, but also scariest, things you can do in trading. Here you are, letting a computer trade with your hard earned money. Theoretically, the...
View ArticleThe Wall Street Code
I just saw this short documentary, The Wall Street Code, on YouTube. It’s a peek inside dark pools and the people behind HFT. “A thriller about a genius algorithm builder who dared to stand up against...
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The 40-Week Cycle Revisited
As I mentioned last time around, when it comes to analyzing the financial markets, I am a proud graduate of “The School of Whatever Works.” In my youth I “wrote down” a lot of interesting analysis...
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Improving The Simple Gap Strategy Part 2
In the previous article, “Testing A Simple Gap Strategy“, we were looking at two other filters in an attempt to improve the Gap #1 strategy. The first filter was a day-of-the-week filter while the...
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Understanding the Relationship Between Stocks & Bonds
Intermarket Analysis is the comparison of potentially related markets. For example: S&P500 and 30 Year Treasury Bonds 30 Year Treasury Bonds and Gold S&P500 and Japanese Yen Shanghai Composite...
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Christmas Trade
With Christmas just around the corner, I thought it would be fun to see how the S&P behaves in the days just before Christmas. Do the days just before this holiday tend to be bullish, bearish or...
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