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…
Over the last month we’ve basically had another 50% drop in cryptoassets – and we have passed the point where I’d thought everything would have started to go up. This is a prime example of why you should pay attention to what the market is doing right now rather than what you think it should…
After enjoying the low volatility of 2016 and the all-time least volatile year in the history of the U.S. financial markets in 2017, we have seen volatility return to the markets with a vengeance in the fourth quarter of this year. Neck-snapping intraday reversals have become the norm over the past few weeks.Even with every…
Imagine yourself flowing down a river, only you don’t know that you are. You do, however, notice that when you move in one direction, with the flow of the river, you move rapidly. When you move in another direction, against the river, you move slowly or not at all. In fact, when you go in…
November 2018 SQN® Report by Van K. Tharp, PhD 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…
November 2018 SQN Report by Van K. Tharp, PhD 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…
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.” Mark Twain ***A Note to start: If you’ve ever wondered about the validity of the old saying that you need 30 data points for statistical significance, this article is for you . . . even if you don’t care about the U.S. Presidential cycle. And thanks for…
The Presidential Cycle: Useful or “Rubbish”? by DR Barton “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.” Mark Twain, misattributing Benjamin Disraeli The mid-term U.S. congressional election is behind us, but the effect of the election will drag on. Already, worries over a stalemate between the Democratic Majority in the House of…
November 13th Update on Cryptoassets by Van K. Tharp, PhD In May 2018 Bloomberg announced that they had formed a cryptocurrency index, which is significant for a few reasons. First, Bloomberg only caters to institutional clients so their index is their first step to widespread institutional involvement. Secondly, in early 2019 we will see ETFs…
Mid-Term Elections Are Over – Now What? by D.R. Barton With all of the talk about the U.S. mid-term elections, I wanted to give my take on my expectations for markets from here. In the just completed elections, the GOP lost control of the House to the Democrats as expected. The big surprise, however, was…
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