Aggressive participation, why? As much as we use a technical analysis dominated approach toward the markets, it would be foolish to not have those views guided by fundamentals. It is at this point in time a true confluence point of [...]
Overbought and oversold Learning to master the markets is like drinking from a fire hose. This does not change, no matter at what stage of the game you are. The vastness of possibilities and the challenges of psychology are endless. [...]
Risk less - trade more Once a speculator has an established edge he/she has two ways of increasing profitability. Frequency = exposing the edge more often. Size = trade larger. It depends on ones psychology, ones system and many more [...]
Sentiment, silence and lies We spoke in our last silver chartbook about how to take a contrarian position. As well we explained how to bet against consensus. Sentiment is one aspect supporting a contrarian trader. This is obviously necessary to [...]
Betting against consensus Mother Theresa was once asked, if she'd be joining a demonstration against war. She refused and stated, that she gladly would follow a rally that would be for peace. This based on the underlying principle, that being [...]
Principles - solutions to any problem You will find the word principles being used often in our publications. This is based on the phenomenon of market speculation to be counter intuitive. We can solve most problems by relying on our [...]
Be right or be rich That is the question. Most predicting publications in the money market niche sound something like this: "The trend most likely continues, or prices might go sideways, possibly decline". Prices can't do much else than go [...]
Ahead of the crowd In our last weekly chartbook we showed edges on how to trade a small range and volatility. This style of trading comes with an extra bonus. You will be ahead of the crowd when it truly matters. [...]
Volatility solutions First we need to differentiate between the various types of volatility. In a "leading"or "swinging" market volatility is much welcome and a traders friend. Above all, if this volatility is present in a directional market. In a tight [...]
Reload me To take advantage of a directional edge the most common methodology is pyramiding. In its purest form, it is added trades to a core position as breakout trades, one counting on the directional edge. The goal here is [...]
