Backtesting shows a trader how their signals for entries and exits would have performed in the past. While a backtest of past data doesn’t guarantee that a signal will work in the future it can quickly show you what didn’t work. What a backtest is really showing a trader is that an entry and exit […]
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This list of top 35 trading books of all time is based on a quantitative composite ranking of Amazon book reviews, all time sales, and author popularity. This is a guide for traders to dig deeper on Amazon and see which books fit their own trading time frame, risk tolerance, return goals, and systems for
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In trading the financial markets, technical analysis is a method for analyzing price action on a chart to forecast the probability of the future direction of the trend. Technical analysts use charts and the patterns of price data and volume to find key levels of support and resistance along with the path of least direction
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Trading is about mastering three different areas: A trading system with an edge. Using the right position sizing and risk management parameters for the system. Having the right discipline and mindset to execute a trading system consistently over the long term. Developing the right trading psychology is about how you think about trading execution and
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I recently read Greg Zuckerman’s new book ‘The Man Who Solved The Market’ and he has done a great job giving readers a peak inside the secretive world of Jim Simons and Renaissance Technologies hedge fund operations. Jim Simons Renaissance Technologies has been the greatest money making operation in the modern financial markets. No other
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Most trading books explain the principles and philosophy of trading, and I have read hundreds of them. Very few give examples of trading systems that have an edge and show the equity curve of the system as it is traded through different market environments. Here are eight trading books that discuss several systematic ways to
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Linda Bradford Raschke was one of the top traders featured in Jack Schwager’s book ‘The New Market Wizards’ her trading results were outstanding both as a floor trader and when she moved to trading at home from her own office. She had consistent success in her own personal trading and even made seven figure profits
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“Predictive technical analysis is chart/pattern reading. Trend following, on the other hand, is reactive technical analysis – a diversified portfolio perspective of markets using momentum indicators.” – Michael Covel Trend following is a trading strategy which attempts to profit from long-term or short-term moves in price action that happen at times in financial markets. Trend
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In the past 25+ years of being active in the financial markets I have been a big reader. As many people will sit and watch television, play video games or be on the internet for hours I have done the same thing with books. I love learning new things and gaining life changing information to
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