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Three Pushes  premium content

Part of Art of Chart Reading Summary Three Pushes is one of the more reliable chart patterns that work very well across almost all financial instruments. The pattern is easily recognizable and many of its formations can be computerized, making it ...

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Emini S&P Day Close to Range Distribution

To answer a question from our member, here is the distribution plot of Emini S&P close of the day relative to the range of the day. By representing the price as a percentage of the RTH range, centered at the midpoint, we get a distribution gra ...

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Weekly Homework

Not sure if you guys do this, but I learned from my mentors early in my trading career that weekly review of the charts is an important routine for discretionary traders. First, it is not a review of the charts that we use for our daytrading mic ...

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Compound Effect from Multiple Filters  member only

Answering a question from our reader - Would using multiple criteria like combining the condition of close greater than or equal to pivot (PP) and the condition of close greater than or equal to volume weighted average price (VWAP) produce stronger b ...

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Essence of Trading: Only Man-made Roads are Straight and Smooth

Ever observe a tree in detail? From afar, a tree may look tall and sturdy. That is just our impression of the tree. By looking at a tree carefully, you would notice that it is not quite accurate. Its branches are never grown in straight lines. The ...

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SPY Range Expansion Behaviour

This is a study on the probability of SPY expanding its range as a multiple of the average range over 10 days period. The study was originally done by our member smilingsynic. I am just reproducing the results here using data from 1993 up to last Fr ...

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What to Expect After 2 Down Days?  member only

One of my favorite daily level Time Map patterns is that Emini S&P dropped for 2 days significantly. It provides something so consistent to work with over the years you have to wonder why no one talks about it at all.

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Trading with Tick Index: Tick1K and its Divergence Signals

Someone asked what I mean by “custom tick divergence” in my real-time commentaries. Here are 5 charts (one day each) for the past week with Emini S&P, $Tick index and my DNO_Tick1K index. (You can expand them to full size for better viewing.) ...

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Black Swan 2 - A Simple End of Day ETF Strategy That Works  member only

Some time ago I wrote an article titled The Black Swan that explains the fundamental problem with buy-and-hold strategy when applied onto stock market. This time we are going to take a look at the first of several strategies that can beat buy-and-hold strategy hands down in terms of better risk control and capital deployment.

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Where There's a Rule, There's a Way

The article in Wired magazine is a great reminder to all traders of what modern trading is all about. The article is not about trading, by the way. It is a story of a geological statistician, Mohan Srivastava, who cracked the code of a scratch-n-win ...

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