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Exploiting the edge from historical market patterns

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Catching Intraday Reversals With Transitional Structures

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One topic I will be covering in greater detail in upcoming blog and Twitter posts is market reversals and transitional structures in the int...

Reasoning With Price Levels: A Key Trading Skill

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I recently mentioned that I'm using the intraday Twitter tweets to model a certain kind of reasoning process with respect to intraday ma...
Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Market Indicators and Tools: What Works?

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Thought I'd offer a potpourri of thoughts and ideas as I catch up with email, blog comments, and a full day of meetings with traders: * ...

NCAA and Trading Upsets: Know Your Performance Profile

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An excellent article in today's Wall St. Journal describes the science behind upsets in the NCAA tournaments. The article points out: ...
Monday, March 16, 2009

Tracking the Quality of Stock Market Movement

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Today was a great example of a low-quality stock market rally. We opened to the upside, advancing stocks led decliners, and NYSE TICK was s...

Indicator Update for March 16th

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Last week's review of indicators concluded that, "Until we see evidence of a rising Cumulative TICK line and Demand exceeding Suppl...
Sunday, March 15, 2009

Demand and Supply: Measures of Stock Market Momentum

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Probably the most unique and unusual indicator I track is a proprietary measure called Demand and Supply. These measures are not available ...

Sector Update for March 15th

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Last week's sector review found that weakness was evenly spread among sectors, with all showing bearish Technical Strength. With the r...

Predicting Trending and Non-Trending Markets: A Direction for Research

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My recent post suggested that the intraday NYSE advance-decline line ($ADD) offers a useful perspective on whether the day is shaping up as...
Saturday, March 14, 2009

Bernard Madoff, Trust in Markets, and More

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* Investor Trust - I recently did a short segment for First Business TV and was asked if Bernard Madoff's confession and jailing woul...

The NYSE Advance-Decline Line: Identifying Trending and Range Environments

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I've emphasized in recent posts that the single most important market call an active trader makes during the early portion of the day is...
Friday, March 13, 2009

Data Explorers: Generating A Unique Measure of Stock Market Sentiment

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Let's say that you were prescient last week and anticipated a market rally or perhaps saw one in the making this week. What stocks and ...

Trading With an Independent and Open Mind

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Well, once again a shout out to the source of all Despair for a worthwhile market lesson. It's true that minds, like parachutes, only ...
Thursday, March 12, 2009

A Shift to the Bull or Bear Trap for the Unwary?

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If you click the chart of the S&P 500 Index (SPY) above, you'll see that, since September, forays above the 20-day moving VWAP line ...

Trading Mentors: Learning by Seeing, Doing, Teaching

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A good trading mentor, like a good teacher of physicians, will both model skills and observe the skills of students, providing timely feedba...
Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Site Seeing: SentimenTrader on What Makes This Market Different

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I recently posted on the topic of blindly following historical patterns in the market. It's been a difficult time for traders and port...

Coaching Your Trading: Twitter, Decision Support, and Trading Reviews

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In a recent post , I proposed the after action review as a useful tool for coaching traders. If we were to conduct a review of yesterday...
Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Calculating the Power Measure

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My previous post illustrated an indicator that I've called the Power Measure. It is a running correlation of price change and volatili...

The Power Measure: Trading With Direction and Volatility on Your Side

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Think of the market as having two moving parts: one is direction, which is always up, down, or sideways in varying degree. The other is vo...

Trading With a Diversified Emotional Portfolio

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A little while back, I gave readers a sneak peak of a chapter from my forthcoming book, The Daily Trading Coach . Yesterday, I received a...
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Brett Steenbarger, Ph.D.
Author of The Psychology of Trading (Wiley, 2003), Enhancing Trader Performance (Wiley, 2006), The Daily Trading Coach (Wiley, 2009), Trading Psychology 2.0 (Wiley, 2015), The Art and Science of Brief Psychotherapies (APPI, 2018) and Radical Renewal (2019) with an interest in using historical patterns in markets to find a trading edge. Currently writing a book on performance psychology and spirituality. As a performance coach for portfolio managers and traders at financial organizations, I am also interested in performance enhancement among traders, drawing upon research from expert performers in various fields. I took a leave from blogging starting May, 2010 due to my role at a global macro hedge fund. Blogging resumed in February, 2014.
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