Every trader should think in R-Multiples - Cover Image of chalkboard

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…

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Beyond The Charts Intraday Background Header Image

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…

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Lessons Learned Trading a Bear Market Coronavirus 2020 - Header Image

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…

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Position Size Versus Stop Loss Tug of War - Splash Image of 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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How To Trade Daily Closing Prices - Splash Image

How to trade stocks using daily closing prices walks through the best practices, tips, and recommendations for implementing a strategy that uses daily closing prices for its signals. If you’re thinking about giving up intraday trading and extending your time-frame or if you’re a long-term investor looking for an active strategy to manage risk, this…

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