Magic Breakout indicator
Magic Breakout indicator is Forex custom indicator for MT4 and MT5. You can download this indicator for free and use it in your trading stra...
Using Trading Journals to Learn and Relearn Trading
Trading journals can be effective tools in changing trading behaviors . They can also be helpful in tracking and working on performance . ...
Are Traders Showing Risk Appetite or Risk Aversion?
One indicator I like to follow during the trading day is the relative performance of small caps and emerging market stocks (EEM; chart above...
Midday Briefing for November 30th: Recognizing Range Trade
Today's trade thus far has illustrated many qualities of a range day: * Oscillation around the volume-weighted average price (VWAP; red...
Morning Briefing for November 30th: Wide Pre-Market Range
9:33 AM CT - I've added the top chart (100,000 contract bars) to show how we've traded within the overnight range thus far this morn...
Gap Up Chart indicator
Gap Up Chart indicator is Forex custom indicator for MT4 and MT5. You can download this indicator for free and use it in your trading strate...
Weekly Stock Market Volatility Continues to Wane
How much price movement can we expect during a trading week? As we can see from the chart above, that measure of volatility has been droppi...
Indicator Update for November 29th
Here we see a few continued signs of market weakness, despite the rise of large cap indexes to new price highs this month. Note how the num...
Sector Update for November 29th
Last week's sector update noted that sector performance had weakened from the prior week, accompanied by relative strength among Health...
blow off volume
blow off volume indicator is Forex custom indicator for MT4 and MT5. You can download this indicator for free and use it in your trading str...
Fresh Weekend Perspectives
* Thanks to Mike at SMB Capital for this link to a major leaguer who has the right attitude about learning; here's Mike's take on...
A Tale of Two Housing Markets: No Recovery at the High End
Back in July, 2008, I posted on the topic of variation in housing inventory . I also showed how housing inventory was radically different a...
Novelty: A Key to Psychological Change
My first post in this series dealt with the importance of processing market information in novel ways : fresh viewing can lead to new and b...
Bollinger Bands Explanation
Bollinger Bands Explanation indicator is Forex custom indicator for MT4 and MT5. You can download this indicator for free and use it in your...
Risk Management and Opportunity Maximization in Trading
A while back, I wrote on the topic of how to lose money the right way . If there is a holy grail to successful trading, it probably is risk...
Overbought Forex indicator
Overbought Forex indicator is Forex custom indicator for MT4 and MT5. You can download this indicator for free and use it in your trading st...
Is the Dubai Debacle a Game Changer?
Here we see the falling yields on 10-year Treasury notes, as the flight to quality in the wake of Dubai default fears has driven those yield...
Holiday Reading on Trading Success
* Emotional Intelligence and Trading - Part One * Emotional Intelligence and Trading - Part Two * Greatness in Life and Trading * Greatn...
Midday Briefing for November 26th: Thanksgiving Day Massacre?
The S&P 500 e-mini (ES) futures (top chart) and the NASDAQ 100 (NQ) futures (bottom chart) have moved back into their October ranges, on...
Adx Trading System
Adx Trading System indicator is Forex custom indicator for MT4 and MT5. You can download this indicator for free and use it in your trading ...
Thanksgiving Day Readings
I hope you have a great Thanksgiving vacation and, more than that, hope you have much in your life to give thanks for. Gratitude does wonde...
Midday Briefing for November 25th: Cross-Currents
Many cross-currents in the markets lately: yields on 10-year Treasury notes continue to decline (top chart) in the wake of continued Fed ea...
Morning Briefing for November 25th: On Breakout Watch
While stocks (ES futures, top chart) remain in their multiweek range, we can see that the euro has broken to the upside vs. the U.S. dollar ...
Heikin Ashi Patterns
Heikin Ashi Patterns indicator is Forex custom indicator for MT4 and MT5. You can download this indicator for free and use it in your tradin...
Goal Setting and Well-Being: Antidotes to Frustration
Note: Previous posts in this series are: * How to Overcome Frustration in Trading * The Well-Being Hypothesis: A Framework for Addressin...
Quick Tuesday Reads
* Here's a questionnaire to assess your mood during trading ; * High frequency trading would get a lot less frequent if Congress passe...
Midday Briefing for November 24th: Slow, Range Trade
Stocks (ES futures, above) have settled into a range, as trade has become quite slow. We broke below the 1100 area mentioned this morning, ...
Information Processing, Learning Styles, and Trading
One frequent experience I've had as a writer is to begin writing about a topic and then discovering new ideas about the topic that I had...
Morning Briefing for November 24th: Continuing in the Range
Pre-opening GDP and housing numbers did not move the market significantly, and we remain in the multi-week range (ES futures, above). The a...
I Sadukey
I Sadukey indicator is Forex custom indicator for MT4 and MT5. You can download this indicator for free and use it in your trading strategy....
The Well-Being Hypothesis: A Framework for Addressing Frustration and Lapses in Trading Discipline
The first post in this series highlighted the link between frustration and loss of discipline in trading. Stated in a different way, lapse...
Monday Perspectives and Observations
* Important post on making adjustments to changing market conditions ; * Disgust as an important element in the psychological change proc...
A Look at a Trading Range Across Markets
Here we can see a broad trading range in the S&P 500 e-mini (ES) futures (top chart) and in the euro (bottom chart). A look at commodit...
Midday Briefing for November 23rd: Reversal
What started out looking like a trend day to the upside in stocks (top chart) faded out, as the dollar strengthened vs the euro (bottom char...
How to Overcome Frustration in Trading: Part One
A while back, I wrote on the topic of steps to take to break patterns of frustration in trading and suggested resources for traders who fin...
Morning Briefing for November 23rd: Staying Above Key Levels
The purple horizontal lines show some of the price levels I'm focused on this morning in the S&P 500 e-mini (ES) futures. We broke ...
Think Like a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker
Adam Warner has an excellent post up illustrating the volatility assumptions of $VIX and $VXX. To summarize in Adam's words: "lo...
Bollinger Band Signals
Bollinger Band Signals indicator is Forex custom indicator for MT4 and MT5. You can download this indicator for free and use it in your trad...
Trading Views: Volume Two
After posting some big picture viewpoints yesterday , I thought I'd add a second collection of trading-related posts from around the Web...
Waning Momentum and Strength: A Look at Two Indicators
After once again topping out ahead of price--a common pattern--my short-term measure of market momentum (bottom chart) has moved to neutral ...
