Posts Tagged ‘Stop Losses’
Buying dips, pullbacks, and reversals with mean reversion trading strategies
Do you like buying stocks that are breaking out to new highs? Would you rather shop for a bargain after a market sell-off? There’s no right or wrong answer, but there are important differences between the two approaches. The way we see it, every trading system can be labeled as one that either trades momentum…
Read MoreEvery trader should think in R-Multiples
Do you find yourself buying stocks using arbitrary round share sizes? Do you position size based only on the distance to your stop loss or vary size based on your conviction in the trade? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then today’s article about R-Multiples is going to be an important one…
Read MorePatrick Walker — Live episode sharing market analysis & answering your questions
Smarter Trading Podcast Episode 18 Patrick is the founder of Mission Winners. He has had the privilege of meeting and learning from legendary traders like: Martin Zweig, Bill O’ Neil, and Ed Seykota. He was an IBD Meetup co-leader and most importantly, he is a family man, happily married with 4 kids. In Patrick’s…
Read MoreCesar Alvarez — Building quantitative trading systems to trade the stock market
Smarter Trading Podcast Episode 11 Our guest today is Cesar Alvarez. From 2004 to 2013, Cesar was the Director of Trading Strategies at TradingMarkets.com and Connors Research. Cesar has developed strategies for private equity funds, authored multiple books on trading, and was a Software Engineer on the early versions of Microsoft Excel. He is well…
Read MoreDavid Settle — Implied volatility is overrated – Options trading framework
Smarter Trading Podcast Episode 8 Hello everybody, our guest today is David Settle. David started in the investor education world in 2004 with Investools. He’s coached hundreds of individuals on how to invest and trade the stock, options and forex markets and he currently holds a CMT designation. In this episode we dive into…
Read MoreAnne-Marie Baiynd — Patience, process, and placing trades on your own terms
Smarter Trading Podcast Episode 4 Anne-Marie Baiynd joins us in Episode 4 of Smarter Trading to share her insights from nearly 20 years trading futures, stocks, and options. We discuss her dynamic strategy of analyzing the battle of supply and demand across multiple time-frames. We also get into techniques to avoid beating yourself up…
Read MoreAre Intraday or End of Day Stop Losses Better?
About Beyond The Charts Welcome back to the Trade Risk’s educational series, Beyond the Charts. It is designed to give you insights into our research process, which for nearly a decade has helped fine-tune our expertise and products, such as the market-beating Merlin and Lamorak trading systems. We hope the technical tools and code we’ll…
Read MoreIs Buying Stocks Trading at 52-Week Highs a Profitable Trading Strategy?
About Beyond The Charts Welcome to the Trade Risk’s brand new educational series, Beyond the Charts! It is designed to give you insights into our research process, which for nearly a decade has helped fine-tune our expertise and products, such as the market-beating Merlin trading strategy. We start by asking questions as broad as, “Is…
Read MoreLessons Learned Trading a Bear Market Part I: Coronavirus 2020
This is part one of a multi-part series documenting some of the events that have unfolded during the 2020 coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak and the lessons and takeaways I’ve learned trading along the way. We start off with a little context of how we got to this point so that this article might prove useful years…
Read MorePosition Size Versus Stop Loss Tug of War
A couple of weeks ago, I had a Skype consultation with “Bill.” He’s a new trader who started over the past few months but not a stranger to markets, having actively invested in mutual funds and his retirement for a long time. On our call, we covered a wide range but there was one topic…
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