[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] For a quick recap on Commercials, review the summary points below: Every successful product exists because it has a legitimate business purpose for the commercial firms that utilize it. Without the commercial firm’s willingness to use the product, it will fail. Commercials are the primary influence in any market that we […]
This past week was full of major market-moving events: the election, Pfizer’s vaccine announcement, Payrolls, and FOMC. We thought it would be helpful to share our recent market environment context update from Mark Boucher after the close on Monday, November 9 to help you understand the current environment. We thought we might also share
Editors note: Van and Chuck recently had a lively conversation about market structure. This article is a transcript of sections of this conversation. Chuck: Every market we trade has a legitimate business purpose and commercial firms legitimately use that market to manage their business. Without that, the market does not work. I believe that traders
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Rarely do I see any discussion in the trading community about the impact of reversion on the profitability of trades. Many new traders are completely unaware of this concept and its impact on their trading. Value, Price, and Reversion I spend a great deal of time educating my student traders about the
Using market internals* has a great advantage in that they force you to focus on what investors are doing rather than on what they are saying. Our short-term trigger point of the 70% down-volume on February 21 came just two days after the all-time highs on the S&P. In the following days, our Bear
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Market Selection is typically the least developed area in most traders’ trading plan. Traders (including me) often spend thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours learning how to improve their trading methods in search for the Holy Grail! Just find that one system or method that will allow you to always be right and you
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