You snooze you lose The required skill level to prosper trading is treading light footed. This is only possible with confidence. Confidence comes from a knowing. Knowing settles in after a long time of experience. However any professional can get [...]
Have markets changed forever? Not in the sense that main principles have been shattered or macro cycle theory questioned... We dare to say that recent impacts and those we foresee to come, will have major implications on trading systems. Typically, [...]
Fractals - Volatility solutions In turbulent times like these, many trading systems get close to their breaking point. Many indicators or otherwise used trading tools are useless. It is important to know what works and when to switch systems. What [...]
Margin call - the cash trap During the last two week all major indices like S&P 500, Dow Jones, NASDAQ, DAX and others dropped by more than 10% in what is considered one of the worst weeks in trading. This [...]
Sitting on your hands More important than making money is not losing it. If you lose fifty percent of your investment money, you need to make one hundred percent profits, just to break even. This counter intuitive principle works against [...]
Bitcoin - Seeing The Opportunity In Challenging Times Bitcoin had a great start into 2020. Peaking out after a strong rally at US$10,500, the king of crypto has been under pressure due to the healthy need for a pullback. However, thanks [...]
Expectations in check If you compare the average performance of all major hedge funds from 1994 to 2018 you will find them underperforming the S&P by more than 2 percent. These funds cut volatility risk compared to the index by [...]
Halving - Facts versus Perception Facts: Miners are getting rewarded for digital transaction verification with bitcoins. These transaction verification's are measured in blocks. After each 210,000 blocks "mined", the reward amount gets to be half than the previously set reward. [...]
Consistently extracting profits In our chartbook publication from last week we published a chart with entry levels as a guide on when to enter the market. Briefly after publication, the first low risk price level was approached. Consequently we posted [...]
The trend is your friend That might be an overused term but it is so very true! After "compound interest" (Albert Einstein: "Compound interest is the 8th wonder of the world"), a directional market is the strongest free edge one [...]
