There are some key concepts and principles to successful short-term trading that can catapult your trading success if you apply them consistently. We teach many of these in our short-term trading course, but I’m going to relate a few very important ones to you in this article today. The first principle I want to relate […]
Secrets of Successful Short-Term Trading By, Mark Boucher Read More »
Financial freedom is an aspiration held by many, yet fully realized by few. One key to achieving this elusive goal lies in understanding and leveraging financial structures effectively. The difference that can be made by making small shifts in how one handles their financial structures is immense, and it directly affects how much money you
Dave was an electrical engineer who hated Corporate America, loved numbers, and was drawn to trading because of its freedom. Dave has a trading system that is a mean reversion system in S&P’s. He likes this system because he gets validated quickly with quick and frequent wins. His system is correct 60% of the time,
Using the Slow Reeds Trailing Stop to Let Your Profits Run By, Mark Boucher Read More »
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
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
Is this A Catchable Rally or A Bear Trap? by, Chuck Whitman & Mark Boucher Read More »
A famous CDA/Wiesenberger study took an interesting approach to explaining two different market strategies by creating two fictitious characters – Mr. Timing and Mr. Selection. The research used data from 1940-1973 in its first edition and then continued on through the early 1990’s in a later edition. Mr. Timing was capable enough to perfectly call
