Trading Strategy

5 Trend Following Rules That Have Bailed Me Out of Purgatory

In an effort to keep this site moving along I wanted to dig a little more into the trend following category today. There are few explanations I have ever read that leave me truly satisfied in

A Quasimodo / Over and Under Price Pattern Revision

I have been treating this blog like a personal log of observations for years, and one of the first patterns I wrote about was the over and under (nicknamed “Quasimodo” by some of our members). The bulk of

How to Avoid Getting Slaughtered by V Tops and Bottoms

Today I decided to write about something that rarely gets attention, although is easily classified as one of the major killers for both discretionary and systematic strategies. “V” tops and bottoms of course occur in any market,

Trading High Probability Shock Announcements – Interest Rates Edition

I have had some pretty good success this past week selling into this EUR/USD move and thought I would write about a few encouraging things that happened along the path. Euro pairs have been running,

Triple Tap / 3-Drive Measurement and The Rule of 3

Over time, we have talked quite a bit about the “rule of 3″, which is a very common yet underestimated component of trading. And the reason I use the word” underestimated” is because for learning

The Essentials of Retail Forex Broker Models | How They Work and Finding the Good Guys

The sell side of the retail Forex industry can be as opaque as the market itself, and few individual traders actually have a clue about how they are being quoted, if their trade is going

To Fade or Not to Fade: Horizontal Support and Resistance

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Office was quiet as a mouse today so carpe diem: made a video, answering a question that I have been getting from my early days of writing this blog. Key points: Confluence rules above all.

The 101 Guide to Inner Trendlines

We have discussed inner trendlines over and over again on this site, and it became obvious to me that the idea is only loosely seeded at best. And so today we are taking a step

Measured Moves Trading the First Drive or Range Reversal

We present a new variation of measuring price objectives, based on the initial drive in price (or range) following a reversal. May be used as a meter for taking profits, staying out of the market