By Arthur Angy December 1922 Abstract / Introduction: W.D. Gann has scored another astounding hit in his 1922 stock forecast issued in December 1921. The forecast called for first top of the bull wave in April, second top in August, and the final top and culmination of the bull market […]
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By Bennett A McDowell Abstract / Introduction: When you hear of someone making a huge killing in the market on a relatively small trading account, more likely than not is was a fluke: The trader was not using sound money management techniques. The trader probably exposed his trading account to […]
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This tutorial written and reproduced with permission from Peter Ponzo (Pairs Trading – Part II) As an example, let’s consider a couple of car manufacturers: General Motors and Ford. Over the past five years their weekly stock prices have changed like Figure 1. They tend to move together, eh? […]
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By Brett Steenbarger October 2002 Abstract / Introduction: Traders love patterns. We trade chart patterns, oscillator patterns, historical patterns, cyclical patterns-you name the pattern, chances are there’s someone trading it. Much of trading boils down to pattern recognition and the ability to quickly identify and act upon profitable patterns as […]
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This article reproduced with permission from Brett Steenbarger Numerous books have been written on the topic of trading success. Nevertheless, it is unclear how expert traders obtain their expertise. Several explanatory models are implicit in market writings: • The psychological model – What makes great traders, this model asserts, is […]
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