Back in November, we looked in depth at the Presidential Cycle at work in the stock market. In addition to looking at some great practical tools helping us understand statistical significance, we saw how the pre-election year is the strongest of the four-year cycle. As a reminder, 2019 is the pre-election year for this cycle…
Many traders start a trading venture and approach the markets in a very discretionary way with barely any rules – or no rules at all. They have a strong desire to apply their own ‘trading guts’ testing out if the success they have met in life can be transferred to trading as well. Typically, ‘beginners…
You may have heard prognosticators talking about the “January Barometer” with trite phrases like “as the S&P 500 goes in January, so goes the year.” I even had a very respected TV personality say that to me on air this week in a format where I couldn’t “clarify” the misnomer… so don’t believe the hype….
Many traders I meet at the Van Tharp Institue — both novices and veterans — have gone through periods of confusion, frustration, or maybe even outright desperation. Regularly I have witnessed how from such states they were then able to produce great improvements in their trading competence. It is astonishing to many, but ‘struggle’ is…
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…
Two weeks ago, we looked at a market chart that contained the so many key concepts that we spent a whole “Trading Tip” on it. Welcome to déjà vu… This is one of those times that market action lays out such clear support and resistance levels that we can’t help but to sit up and…
Until about 15 years ago, futures markets were dominated by trading in the ‘pit’ — the physical trading floor. Pit traders yelled out their buy/sell orders to find a fellow floor trader to assume the counterpart. Known as ‘Open Outcry,’ this was a very authentic (and fun) process though it represented a very slow, manual…
Generally, 2018 was a disaster for the crypto market. The market cap of the top 100 cryptos dropped from around $555 billion (still well under the market cap of AAPL stock) to about $124 billion – pretty much the value of a large cap stock. Knowing it was a disaster, I decided to look at…
Last month, someone commented that they would prefer if I just talked about what was happening in cryptoassets and not about what I expect to happen. We are talking about a market which has a capitalization of a little more than $100 billion. There are several dozen individual stocks with capitalizations higher than the entire…
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