Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 11): 10 Smart Ways To Improve Your Trading; Part 1 – Know Your Edges
First, I’d like to let you know that I just completed a new book. The title is Buy The Fear; Sell The Greed – 7 Behavioral Quant Strategies for Traders. My new book quantifies fear and greed in money managers, investors and traders. We’ve developed a number of quantified strategies around those high probability trading opportunities. […]
Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 10): 10 Smart Ways To Improve Your Trading
Over the next three weeks I’m going to put a trading plan base into place in a series entitled 10 Smart Ways To Improve Your Trading. The series will essentially be a formula which all-combined will give you the base from which to scale on. Most traders believe that simply having buy and sell rules […]
Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 9): New Research Study From Blair Hull
Here is a very interesting study published by Blair Hull and his team. By way of background, Blair is one of the legends in the trading industry having sold his options trading firm to Goldman Sachs for over $500 million. He now runs an asset management firm with ETFs. More information about his ETFs can be […]
My Mentoring Program Will Improve Your Trading – And You Can Try It Risk Free
Announcing – A Comprehensive Private Mentoring Program With Larry Connors Dear Trader, Do you have a burning desire to improve your trading? Are you frustrated by inconsistent trading results, a lack of a structured trading plan, too many strategies (or not enough alpha producing strategies), not taking trades, not following trading rules, assuming too much […]
Market Cycle Updates
In the previous commentary, “Current Market Symmetry”, I pointed out the 10/11/17 Pi date as it was 3141 days [3.14] from the 10/6/09 670 bear market low and also the 8.6 Cycle symmetry date at 11/24-25/2017. The SPX was also extremely O/B at the highest monthly RSI 5 in our time and minus any RSI […]
Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 6): New Volatility Index From The CBOE
Good news. The CBOE just launched a new 1-year Volatility Index VIX1Y. This is significant and I’ll explain why in a minute. First, to make sure you know what the CBOE now offers and what it means, I’ll walk you through their five major Volatility Indexes. 1. VXST – 9-day Implied Volatility. Within VXST are two lesser […]
Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 5): The Best Leading Indicator of Stock Prices According to The Federal Reserve
In this issue of the Connors Research Traders Journal, we’ll look at a recent paper from the Federal Reserve which shows statistical evidence that the financial stocks are a leading indicator for both stock prices and economic cycles. In the pre-quant days, when observations were rarely quantified, professionals relied on certain types of inherent conditions […]
Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 4): Five Great Sites For VXX and Volatility Traders
Today I’d like to share with you five sites which I feel can have a positive impact on your trading if you trade VXX or any type of equity volatility. These sites are the ones I either subscribe to or regularly visit. Please note, if a site is not mentioned here it doesn’t mean I […]
TBD: Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 3): Stops (Still) Hurt
In my book Short-Term Trading Strategies That Work, we created a small firestorm with a chapter that was titled “Stops Hurt”. The chapter showed statistically that stops on pullbacks hurt performance (since publishing this test in the book many others have replicated it). Even stops placed 50% away (which few would even consider a stop) […]
Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 2): How To Increase The Sharpe Ratio of Your Portfolio
In this issue of The Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 2), we’ll delve into the insights of Peter Muller, who built PDT (Process Driven Trading), one of the greatest proprietary trading firms in the world for Morgan Stanley. Peter and his team then moved from Morgan Stanley to their own $5+ billion quant hedge fund. Reportedly, Peter […]
Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 1): Does Mean Reversion Still Work?
Today, we’ll look at whether or not mean reversion trading still works (it does). You’ll learn The RSI 25 Strategy which has correctly predicted the short-term direction of the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) over 91% of the time since 1993. You’ll also gain further insights which you can apply to your personal trading. For much […]
Yes, I’d Like to Attend the Free Webinar on Volatility Trading with Larry Connors on March 30, 2018
In response to the potential change in the market environment, I will be be holding a free trading strategy and research webinar on Friday, March 30 at 11 am ET. The webinar will run approximately one hour and we will be covering the following topics for you to learn from: 1. VIX and Volatility […]