This is one example of a monthly “check-in” where students do the work to apply our principles to their trading and gather the evidence needed to make strategy-adjustment decisions. This exercise involves self-reflection, self-awareness, and self-mastery. “Lifelong learners, students of the market” do this on a regular basis to stay aligned with an ever-evolving […]
Here are 3 snapshots of a “1-page monthly performance summary” from a trader learning day trading and hybrid swing trading systems. He has been trading now for three months after taking a home study course from VTI. One of the ways to sharpen your most important tool (your mind) and to improve your practice
A Case Study on Coaching and Trading Improvement By, Ken Long Read More »
Today’s quiz actually has two case studies with two charts each. Part one offers an example of our favorite hybrid trading style that blends the best of swing trading and daytrading, a technique we call core and turbo. Swing trades form the core position in which we use swing trade patterns to give us a
Dr. Ken Long provided us the following charts yesterday to help demonstrate a variety of ways someone could have traded the market decline on June 25 and 26 using one fractal pattern of the many he teaches. The first chart shows daily bars for SPY which indicates an initial pattern of decline after a peak.
A Case Study in Shorting the June 25-26 Market Decline, by Ken Long Read More »
This week, you have a choice of watching a 3 minute day trading video or a 21 minute swing trading video from Dr. Ken Long. In the day trading video, Ken details multiple trades in 5 symbols from Monday morning, June 10th that were set up by the weekend’s swing trading signals. For the swing
Day and Swing Traders for The Week of June 10th, By Ken Long PhD Read More »
[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,
Dr. Ken Long, a VTI senior trading systems instructor, shared this recent email dialogue with another trader. We thought our readers could benefit from this email content as well. Hi Ken, I have been looking back at a number of market and trading factors to see if I could improve the expectancy of your 551W
Tweaking Systems That Aren’t Broken, by Ken Long Read More »
Meditation can have a powerful effect on the performance of your investment system, and your personal life. Even without a great deal of experience, the practice of meditation can have profound positive impacts in many dimensions of your life. Allow me to share some of my own insights with meditation and how it has helped
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Ken explains how understanding the swing timeframe can be useful to almost any trader. Day traders and position traders can incorporate swing price movement information into their preferred holding period. My general approach to swing trading begins with the context of three general time frames that I use to govern all my trading. The three
Trading the Swing Timeframe for Positions Traders AND Day Traders, By Dr. Ken Long Read More »
