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 24): Beware of Large One-Day Drops

After a market or stock has had a large one-day sell-off do you ever have the urge to jump in and buy because you’re anticipating a quick reversal? I know I have. Yet, it was never the holy grail as many people would have us believe. And many of those people who do believe it’s […]

Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 23): VIX Futures as a Market Timing Indicator

************************ 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. ************************ I thought you’d enjoy reading this working paper on applying the VIX term structure to timing the S&P. Their concept of buying SPY puts and […]

Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 22): 10 Smart Ways To Improve Your Trading; Part 10 – The Importance of Execution

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. Today is the last and potentially the most important lesson in our 10-part series. Today’s lesson is “The Importance of Execution”. There are so many aspects to […]

Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 20): 10 Smart Ways To Improve Your Trading; Part 9 – Go Deep, Not Wide

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. This is Part 9 of our 10 Part Series on “Smarter Trading”. Today we’ll focus on the topic of “Go Deep, Not Wide”. Trading has so […]

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 […]