The Ultimate Guide to Trend Trading
This is a Video Guest Post by Troy Bombardia @BullMarketsco of BullMarkets.co
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Trend Trading
Long Term Trend Following Models That Are Turning Bearish
This is a Guest Post by Troy Bombardia of BullMarkets.co As the stock market rallies higher and approaches its 50% Fibonacci retracement resistance, we can see a clear divergence in the data: The economic data is mixed, with some long term macro models turning bearish. Breadth is long term bullish. Quantitative market patterns are medium
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A Moving Average Backtest On Facebook
A moving average is a trend following indicator that can be used to filter price action and capture trends by keeping a trader long during up trends and in cash or short during downtrends. Here is an example of the key long term moving average on the Facebook chart that would have captured the uptrend
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What is Trend Trading?
What type of strategy exactly is trend trading or trend following? “Trend followers use reactive technical analysis. Instead of trying to predict a market direction, their strategy is to react to the market’s movements whenever they occur. This enables them to focus on the market’s actual moves and not get emotionally involved with trying to
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The RIGHT Way To Use The 200 Day Moving Average
This is a Guest Post by AK of Fallible AK has been an analyst at long/short equity investment firms, global macro funds, and corporate economics departments. He co-founded Macro Ops and is the host of Fallible. Last week the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed below the 200 day moving average for the first time since 2016. And
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The Moving Average System that Crushes Buy & Hold
What if I told you there was an incredibly simple moving average system that crushed buy and hold investing? It is not that complicated and only takes one action on the last day of the month to execute it. It over doubles the returns in the S&P 500 index and cuts the drawdown in half.
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The New Trader’s Guide To Trend Following
This is a guest post by Jay you can find him on twitter @SmartStockTrend or his website www.intelligenttrendfollower.com. Getting started with trend following was one of the best things that happened to me as a trader. It helped me worry less, feel more confident and (most importantly), start getting consistent trading results! But I’ve got to
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The Nature of Trends
Trading Habit #13 “Trends never turn on a dime. Reversals build slowly. The first sharp dip always finds buyers and the first sharp rise always finds sellers.” – Alan Farley It is important for traders to understand that trends do not go straight up or straight down they tend to zig zag back and forth
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Trading Bubbles and Panics
Greed can push prices far above any reasonable fundamental valuation. Fear can take prices lower than investors would have thought possible. Trend traders make money in the markets not because they predict anything but because they buy what is going up and they sell what is going down. They discover ways to measure and react
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Process versus Outcome
A good trade is one where you followed your process regardless of whether you made money or not. A bad trade is one where you didn’t follow your process regardless of whether you lost money or not. Amateur traders make one big mistake at the beginning. They get all wrapped up in their trading results
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