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Traders write to me and talk with me about a lot of things.  Sometimes it's about problems they're having in their trading; somet...

I'm starting a trading experiment and will be recording the results on the blog periodically. The experiment has involved going bac...

An interesting meta-analysis (a study that statistically combines many different research studies) found that mentorship is associated wi...

One of my more reliable measures of market strength and weakness comes from a disaggregation of the NYSE TICK, the cumulative measure of ...

If you have problems with your old Ford, repairing the car is a worthwhile undertaking.  Repairing your Ford, however, will not build you...

Now that's some good cowboy wisdom.  No cowboy ever said, "Ride the horse that fits your personality."  Hell, no.  If you w...

In the recent article outlining three principles of performance grounded in positive psychology , one of those principles involved the im...

*  Above we see a composite measure of breadth specific to SPX stocks (raw data from the excellent Index Indicators site).  Specifically,...

We often hear that traders should be process driven and strictly follow their process as a way of avoiding psychologically-driven biases ...

In his recent research report, Peter Brandt offered a keen observation:  "Profitability comes from a trade finding you, not in you ...

*  On Thursday across the NYSE universe, we saw quite a few more stocks close below their lower Bollinger Bands than above their upper ba...

Three questions that are key to understanding the day behavior of stocks are: 1)  Who is in the market? 2)  Are they becoming more act...

Bella at SMB offers some excellent perspectives regarding trading on tilt .  Tilt is a term that originated in poker and describes a sta...

Lately I've seen a variety of observations about stock market sentiment, ranging from bullish to bearish to neutral.  My favorite mea...

*  Above we see a cumulative running total of the number of NYSE stocks giving buy versus sell signals with respect to their Bollinger Ba...

One of the joys of social media is the opportunity to discover people who are doing good work.  True, you have to wade through quite a fe...

One of the best ways to generate fresh ideas is to question accepted wisdom.  What is often assumed among traders and market writers is j...

Here is something I watch closely while trading.  The blue line is the SPY ETF; the red line takes the SPY volume for each five-minute pe...

As I speak with traders, I notice a common mistake that is responsible for quite a few losses:  the confusion between trend trading and m...

Last year I wrote about Market Profile as a practical theory that helps traders achieve a fresh perspective on markets and trading.  Mar...