Tag Archives: market analysis

Falling market on falling volume

I was taking a look at the monthly chart for the Shanghai Composite Index this morning and …

Picking the right indicator(s)

This question came in the other day from a developing trader on the subject of technical indicators. …

CANSLIM and market trend

Someone asks whether it’s important to factor current market trend into the CANSLIM stock trading strategy.

Forex positioning analytics available

The forex broker Saxo Bank has an interesting set of analytics some folks may find very interesting.

Investing with Volume Analysis

Book Review: Investing with Volume Analysis

Learn just about everything there is to know about incorporating volume in your trading or investing

Volatility Changes Across Markets

A recent blog post got me thinking about where volatility stands now compared to where it’s been. …

Some Numbers on Stock Market Earnings Reactions

I’m reading a book on trading based on company earnings announcements at the moment. I’ll post a …

Using Secondary Indications in Your Market Analysis

Yesterday Adam at Forex Blog put up a blog post looking at the British Pound, specifically in …

Non-Arguments Against Fundamental Analysis

I’m going to join Adam from Forex Blog in taking on a post at Counting Pips titled …

Top Factors Influencing Exchange Rates

During my usual roaming around the web I came across an entry from Oanda titled Top 5 Factors …

My Tools of the Trade

Trader Mike and Blain at StockToGo both posted recently on the various tools they use in their trading. …

TCTC

Book Review: The Complete Trading Course

A front-to-back approach to applying technical analysis to trading

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Book Review: Harmonic Trading, Volume One

A comprehensive and systematic look at Fibonacci based technical analysis and trading

Looking at Random Trading

Every once in a while, the topic of random trading comes up. Normally, it’s part of a …

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Book Review: Trading Realities by Jeff Augen

Laying out some option strategies that could be used along with or in place of holding stocks

The Best Forex Market Analysis in the World!

Yesterday, at the FX Week awards event in London, the forex market analysis product I work on within …

Don’t Be Like This Trader

A reader of the market analysis service I work for emailed me after I posted a comment …

BDH

Book Review: Buy Don’t Hold

A practical text focused on the application of asset allocation looking at the market trend status

Some Trading Links and Observations

I’ve gone off on a rant about poor market analysis before (see this post, and this follow-up), …

A Peak Inside Professional Level Market Analysis

I want to share something with you that I recieved today in my email from one of …

Some of the worst market analysis ever!

I came across an article the other day which got my blood boiling a bit. It basically …

Forex Seasonals Coming Up Big So Far

Do you know the seasonal patterns which tend to play out in the forex markets? If so, …

Biases In Market Analysis

A headline on the Business Insider blog caught my attention this morning: Once Again, Moody’s Is Behind …

Understanding Currency Moves Requires Looking Deeper

Reader Rod is a good one for sending me questions, and generally interesting ones at that. Here’s his …

Looking for Meaning in Big Open Interest Drop in S&P 500 Futures

Here’s something I noticed today that I found REALLY interesting. First of all, take a look at …

Watching Positioning Figures for Biases and Changes

As you may have gathered from some of my prior posts (like Using COT data to spot …

Taxes, Budget Deficits and Inflation

A couple of things have come out from different politicians the last couple days which have me …

A Sample of Professional Market Analysis

I received an email a short while ago outlining the three reasons an analyst at CIBC World …

Understanding and Using the Dollar Index

The folks on CNBC and elsewhere in the media are all over the fact that the Dollar …

Understanding the Talking Heads

Talking heads abound in the markets. There are corporate CEOs and other high-level officers. There are central …

Taking the Piss Out of Goldman

My British and Aussie/New Zealand readers will understand the above headline, as will those who have spent …

Where’s the Money, and Where’s it Going?

A lot of traders have been utterly confounded by the way things have been playing out in …

Looking at Stock Market Internals for Confirmation

While I’m no longer a stock market analyst (I’m focused on forex these days), I still keep …

Using COT data to spot potential big moves

I’ve mentioned the Commitment of Traders data on a few occasions previously in terms of its usefulness …

RMAM

Book Review: Reading Minds and Markets

Primarily about asset allocation – picking the best place(s) to put money to work

Taking the Trader Positioning Data to the Next Level

Note: This is a cross-post. It was initially put up on the Currensee blog. The Commodity Futures …

The Relationship Between Stocks and Forex

I was asked a question by someone on my mailing list yesterday about the relationship between the …

Forex Volume Figures

I had a question come in overnight regarding volume data and how it can be used for …

Price Movement Causality – Not What You Might Think

I saw the following statement made on the BabyPips site: Forex charts are nothing but a chart …

Track Market Sentiment to Understand Price Cause and Effect

I’m willing to bet that a lot of newer traders are having a hard time understanding the …

Technical/Fundamental analysis a child’s game

A reader named nikesh posted a comment to yesterday’s Improving the Win Rate of Trend System With …

Why are stocks and the dollar trading inversely?

One of the questions that’s come up a few times of late on the discussion boards is …

Am I using enough indicators?

A little while back I wrote Being a Focused Trader on the subject of traders getting a …

Being a Focused Trader

Here’s an email from a member of my mailing list which brings up a lot of the …

Volume in the Forex Market

Here’s an email question that came in recently which relates to volume in the forex market. Hello …

Is Technical Analysis Useless in Forex Trading?

An email came in from one of my list members the other day. It basically asks the …

Screening Stocks for Shorting

 With good reason, quite a few formerly long-only stock traders have been exploring the short side of …

Volatility, Stops, and Other Topics

Here are a few interesting posts from my blogging peers that you may find interesting. Vix and …

A Trader’s Educational Path

I received the following in an email from a member of my mailing list. Because I think …

Trading Simply and Using the Right Trading Tools

The other day Brett Steenbarger referenced a post by Trader X in which he talks about simplifying …