Author: Larry Connors

Larry Connors has over 40 years in the financial markets industry. His opinions have been featured at the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Dow Jones, & many others. For over 15 years, Larry Connors and now Connors Research has provided the highest-quality, data-driven research on trading for individual investors, hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, and bank trading desks around the world. Larry has been published extensively, with titles like How Markets Really Work, Short Term Trading Strategies That Work, High Probability ETF Trading, and The Connors Research Trading Strategy Series including our latest Guidebook High Probability Trading with Multiple Up & Down Days.

Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 19): 10 Smart Ways To Improve Your Trading; Part 8 – Trade VXX

If you would like to read Chapter One of my new book Buy The Fear, Sell The Greed – 7 Behavioral Quant Strategies for Traders please click here. In this issue of the Connors Research Traders Journal we’re going to cover Part 8 of our 10 Part Series on 10 Smart Ways To Improve Your Trading – Trade […]

Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 18): 10 Smart Ways To Improve Your Trading; Part 7 – Quantify, Quantify, Quantify

In this issue of the Connors Research Traders Journal we’re going to cover Part 7 of our 10 Part Series on 10 Smart Ways To Improve Your Trading. Before we do, I’d like to let you know that I just completed a new book which is available now. The title is Buy The Fear, Sell The Greed – […]

Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 17): Trading Fear and Greed – Your One Hour Webinar Recording Plus 44 Slides of Trading Knowledge

In this issue of the Connors Research Traders Journal I’m sharing with you a one-hour webinar I conducted last Friday where I taught the key principles on how to best take advantage of fear and greed in the market. You can gain access to it immediately by clicking here. Before we do, I’d like to let you know […]

Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 16): 10 Smart Ways To Improve Your Trading; Part 6 – Sell Greed

Today is Part 6 of our 10-Part Series on Smarter Trading. The topic is “Sell Greed”. The following is an excerpt from one of the chapters in Buy the Fear, Sell the Greed – 7 Behavioral Quant Strategies for Traders. The actual strategy it refers to at the beginning is called “CRASH”, a strategy that was […]

Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 15): 10 Smart Ways To Improve Your Trading; Part 5 Buy Fear

Many traders, especially traders who spend their majority of time reading charts and relying on indicators and oscillators, tend to forget that stock and equity prices are not only driven by supply and demand. They are driven by fear and greed. It’s easy to say that a stock is making a double top, or is […]

Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 14): 10 Smart Ways To Improve Your Trading; Part 4 Correlations – How To Protect Yourself from This Hidden Killer

In this issue of the Connors Research Traders Journal we’re going to cover Part 4 of our 10 Part Series on 10 Smart Ways To Improve Your Trading. Before we do, I’d like to let you know that I just completed a new book which will be released on Wednesday, June 20. The title is Buy The Fear, Sell […]

Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 13): 10 Smart Ways To Improve Your Trading; Part 3 – Lower Your Risk

******* I’d like to let you know that I just completed a new book which will be released onWednesday, June 20. 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 […]

Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 12): 10 Smart Ways To Improve Your Trading; Part 2 – Position Sizing

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. The […]

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 […]

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 […]