Every Monday at 10 a.m., I have a call with a friend about markets, business, and some personal stuff, too. This week I was one minute late dialing the number… because I was watching these bars unfold on my trading screen: Beyond Meat (BYND) had just gapped up 10% to open and then took off…
There are numerous ETFs that track everything from countries, commodities, currencies and stock market indices to individual market sectors. ETFs provide a wonderfully easy way to discover what’s happening in the world markets. I apply a version of my System Quality Number® (SQN®) score to measure the relative performance of numerous markets in a world…
I always say that people do not trade the markets; they trade their beliefs about the markets. In that same way, I’d like to point out that these updates reflect my beliefs. I find the market update information useful for my trading, so I do the work each month and am happy to share that…
The U.S. and China are taking their trade war to the next level. For its part, the U.S. has put basically all of the imports from China on the tariff list. The Trump administration has also gone after individual companies like Huawei for intellectual property (IP) violations. For their part, the Chinese have increased their…
Update: The Trading Genius Workshop is now available as an on-demand online course! Enroll today for instant access and start learning at your own pace. A while back, I found an outline for an entire workshop entitled Trading Genius on my computer. It was a three-day workshop dated November 2016, however, I never gave that…
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] This +9R trade featured 4 short scale ins in DIA during the Friday morning session. It was absolutely routine trading based on the techniques I teach and the way we trade every day — swing trade framing to identify likely movers, taking advantage of our awareness that the market was in a critical state,…
On October 19, 1781, British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered almost 8,000 soldiers, officers, and seamen to American and French commanders on the battlefield of Yorktown, Virginia. This effectively ended the American Revolutionary War. Such an event was nearly impossible for anyone to imagine in the previous years when the world’s greatest army of the day…
Update on Cryptoassets: May 15, 2019 by Van K. Tharp, PhD Market Summary Cryptoassets have had a flat three months followed by three months up with last month being a huge uptrend… Most of the major cryptoassets are up over 100% since mid-December. That’s easy to see just looking at a long-term chart of Bloomberg’s…
The Power of Relative Moves or Correlation by D.R. Barton, Jr. One of the key thoughts that institutional money managers keep in the front of their minds is the diversity of a given portfolio. We could dig into modern portfolio theory and other academic claptrap here, but let’s just cut right to the chase —…
Tharp Think in Practice: Trading is 100% Psychology Part II by Gabriel Grammatidis In the first article on this topic, (Part I) I explained why Psychology is such a determining factor in trading and how it impacts your system development work as well as impacting a traders’ Fundamental Trading Beliefs. Van has formulated two famous…
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