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… [Read More]
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… [Read More]
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…. [Read More]
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… [Read More]
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… [Read More]
Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 7): Superior Trade Construction for Asymmetrical Gains
In this issue of the Connors Research Traders Journal we’re going to learn one way to construct a fixed-risk trade with the potential to bring you asymmetrical returns. Let’s assume you are highly confident that a stock (or any market) is going to have a large move to the upside. You’ve done all your work,… [Read More]
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… [Read More]
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… [Read More]
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)… [Read More]
Current Market Symmetry
The SPX last had a -5.0% correction from the 2194 8/15/16 high to the 2084 low on 11/4/16, which was a pullback to the 12-month EMA. Trump was elected 11/8/16 and the index closed at 2140. There was an 8.6 year cycle leg date at 2016.825 which was 10/28/16 versus the 11/4/16 2084 low, and… [Read More]