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]
How to Successfully Swing Trade – Part 1
One of the fundamental ideas we base our research around is the relatively static nature of the ‘human factor’, or more simply that human behavior rarely changes. What changes are the markets, and we are buying and selling at extreme moments of either fear (we’re buying) or greed (we’re selling). There are two extremes on… [Read More]
How to Execute Short Trades Using the Throwback Rally
One of my favorite chart patterns for delivering a successful short swing trade is the throwback rally and subsequent failure. With the market making new highs, then softening into headline risk from Europe, this is an opportune time to look for this pattern, and to take advantage of it. Here’s how it sets up: The… [Read More]
The Key Zone Trade
Learn Kevin Haggerty’s key price zone trading strategy and how to apply it to your trades for a nice profit cushion.
TradingMarkets 7 ETFs You Need to Know for Tuesday
Buyers were most aggressive in the energy and materials sectors, sending the ProShares Ultra Oil & Gas ETF, DIG higher by nearly 6% late in trading on Monday. After several days in oversold territory above the 200-day moving average, the ProShares Ultra Basic Materials ETF, UYM gained nearly 8%.
5 Bullish PowerRatings Stocks and How to Identify Them
Wouldn’t it be great if there was a simple step-by-step method of identifying stocks that are likely to take a bullish turn? Thanks to our research you can apply three very simple rules to your trading and greatly improve your chances for trading success. Here we’ll explain them to you and demonstrate 5 real-time examples of these rules in action.