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At some point, most skilled traders achieve a degree of success and seek to maximize the economic value of their trading.  This typically...

You think the market will be going up and, sure enough, it rises sharply and you only have a small position on.  Should you buy the stren...

Stocks have started the year on a particularly weak note , retracing the lion's share of rally from mid-December.  This has ver...

The next best practice in our series is using imagery and visualization to change our thoughts, feelings, and actions as traders.  Imager...

*  One of the things I have my eye on is cross-sector volatility within the U.S. stock market.  This is a measure of realized volatility,...

The next best trading practice in our series comes from reader John Hope-Robinson (@johnhr), who describes meditation as an important too...

I thought I would update a few of the measures that I follow to help us make sense of the relative weakness that we've seen ush...

Our next best practice in trading comes from Enis Taner (@EnisTaner) and captures the idea of keeping yourself in peak condition in all a...

We're kicking off 2015 with a series of posts on best practices submitted by readers.  Thanks to all who shared ideas. We begin wit...

Wishing readers a happy, healthy, and successful New Year!   TraderFeed will start the new year with a series of posts on best practice...

Above are two perspectives on stock market breadth, focusing on the stocks within SPX.  The top chart tracks the percentages of SPX sh...

I'm not a big fan of terms like "overbought" and "oversold".  Too often, those terms embed a bias--that the stret...

*  Since 2012, we can divide market days into quartiles, based upon the number of stocks in the SPX that are making fresh five-day highs ...

In yesterday's post , I described a process of reading in parallel:  reading many books at a time and gaining insight into a topic by...

With today's post, I'll begin a series on best practices in trading.  Those will include some of my own, as well as those submitt...

I generally find that traditional ways of viewing traditional market indicators and charts are not the most informative.  Years ago, a...

Successful traders get more rational when they get more uncomfortable.  That feeling of discomfort is not a call to act; it's a call ...

One of the central themes of my new book is the importance of creativity in generating trading ideas with an edge.  What I call Trading ...

One of the most interesting aspects of working as a trading coach is the ability to see, first hand, what contributes to the success of t...

*  The above chart tracks buying vs. selling programs executing in the stock market every minute of the day.  The underlying logic is tha...