Monthly Archives: December 2008

Opening Gap – Will it hold or will the market retrace?

A reader of this blog posted a question via comment the other day about trading opening gaps in stocks. …

Can I optimize position sizing during development?

Here’s a second trader question on the subject of evaluating trading system performance test results. Is there a …

Trading system equity performance

A member of my mailing list asked me this question about trading system performance: For the systems …

What is the front futures contract?

The other day I got a question about futures contracts from a member of my mailing list on …

If it’s icy out there you have to take small steps

In case you haven’t heard, the Northeastern U.S. was hit by a bit of snow over the …

Trading During the Holidays

The question gets asked every year around this time: Is it worth trading during the holiday period? …

Can you learn trading by reading books?

Here’s a question that is often debated in trading circles, and I’m sure in other subject areas …

The difference between discretionary and system traders

There are, generally speaking, two types of traders in the markets. One is the discretionary sort. The …

What do you think of X market?

The following note/question came in from a reader named James over the weekend. His question brings up …

Negative T-Bill rates?

Near zero and negative Treasury Bill (T-Bill) rates have been all the talk this week. Here’s a …

Watch your risk when trading multiple forex positions

The other day I received an email from a fellow in which he was describing his trading …

The key concept of The Essentials of Trading

As part of a big set of questions submitted by a reader (I’ve mentioned how that seems …

Markets and timeframes for price distribution charting

I received a set of questions following on my How to identify price targets for your trades post …

How to identify price targets for your trades

The following is an article I contributed to Trading Markets last week that I thought would be …

Are CFD’s good trading vehicles for new traders?

In response to the post I wrote on whether forex is the best market for new traders, …

How do you set position sizing in Metastock system testing?

Developing and testing trading systems is about more than just entry and exit points. It also has …

Forex is the easiest market for new traders, right?

Here’s an interesting question on the forex market asked by a reader named Rod. It’s one I’m …