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April 2020 System Quality Number® Report The SQN® Report by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.

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  There are numerous ETFs that track everything from countries, commodities, currencies, and stock market indices to individual market sectors. ETFs provide a wonderfully easy way to discover what’s happening in the world markets. I apply a version of my System Quality Number® (SQN®) score to measure the relative performance of numerous markets in a world model. The Market SQN score uses the daily percent change for input over a 100-day period. Typically, a Market SQN score over 1.47 is strongly bullish and a score below -0.7 is very weak. […]

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April 2020 Market Update – Bear Volatile Market Type by Van K. Tharp, PhD

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  I always say that people do not trade the markets; they trade their beliefs about the markets. In that same way, I’d like to point out that these updates reflect my beliefs. I find the market update information useful for my trading, so I do the work each month and am happy to share that information with my readers. However, if your beliefs are not similar to mine, then this information may not be useful to you. Thus, if you are inclined to go through some sort of intellectual

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Two Hour Strategy Session From April 26, 2020 by, Ken Long

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This is a 2 hour strategy session conducted Sunday evening. https://youtu.be/HaYxtmiIK3k     HOUR 1: A detailed review of the pieces and parts of Ken’s Weekend Report (longer-term strategies) and the Daily Report for finding shorter-term opportunities. These reports combine the first 2 key steps in the Plan-Prepare-Execute-Assess process that Ken described in his podcast with Van HOUR 2: First 40 minutes: a thorough review of the 5 patterns Ken is teaching in the Advanced Hybrid Trading Workshop, from a detailed 2-page summary cheatsheet, supported by 10 more pages of

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How Crude Went Massively Negative This Week by, Gabriel Grammatidis

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  This week in crude, the sellers of oil have been paying buyers $30-$40 per barrel. That is, the price of oil has gone negative for the April contract. Yes, you read that right —sellers are paying buyers this week to take oil off of their hands. How could that happen? Through his simple charts, Gabriel clearly shows how the setup for a big move in crude has been forming over many months. Just before the big drop, traders using Gabriel’s systems saw the entry signal and shorted crude. They

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Trade Through “Mindfulness” By Van K. Tharp, PhD

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  What would happen if you could just pay attention to what the market is doing right now? You’d be totally in the present with no preconceived ideas or biases to influence you. If you did that, your trading probably would accelerate to a new level. You can trade that way if you practice “mindfulness.” Short-term reactions to news tend to be large in bear markets; however, if you just watch what is going on, it is obvious. Most people have trouble with this. They can’t watch what is going

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Covid-19 & Food Supply Chain: Why You Don’t Have to Worry About Food Shortages by, D.R.Barton, Jr.

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  Over a month ago, we saw the first and the most visible sign of the pandemic in our daily lives – bare shelves in the grocery store. First to vanish was toilet paper, then canned & frozen foods, then rice. Amid these rolling shortages, we’ve rightly come to understand that farmers, truck drivers, and grocery store employees are indeed “essential workers.” My home state of Delaware was one of the last three in the country to register a confirmed COVID-19 case and on March 22nd, our governor issued a

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March 2020 Market Update Bear Very Volatile Market Type by, Van K. Tharp Ph.D.

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  I always say that people do not trade the markets; they trade their beliefs about the markets. In that same way,  I’d like to point out that these updates reflect my beliefs. I find the market update information useful for my trading, so I do the work each month and am happy to share that information with my readers. However, if your beliefs are not similar to mine, then this information may not be useful to you. If you are inclined to go through some sort of intellectual exercise

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Daily Trading Master Class by, Ken Long

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  Ken recorded two YouTube videos on Thursday, 3/26/2020 describing the morning session trades that generated a couple of losses before the market found directional traction. Ken finished the morning session well in positive territory with several larger wins.     Coming in June! Ken Long Live Stream The Advanced Hybrid Training Workshop Learn how to develop risk-managed action plans informed by different time-frames and trade well. Learn more HERE

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Van Answers: I just invested all of my savings into TESLA stocks, what is some advice you’d give me?

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  The following piece comes from a question posted on Quora.com To read this and other answers from Van Tharp, CLICK HERE   Question: “I just invested all of my savings into TESLA stocks, what is some advice you’d give me?” Answer: In 1999, we had a great bull market and I was hearing from bartenders at the hotel we were doing workshops at that they didn’t need to attend our stock market workshop, they could teach it. I heard a waiter say that waiting tables was his backup job, but he

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November 13th Update on Cryptoassets

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November 13th Update on Cryptoassets by Van K. Tharp, PhD In May 2018 Bloomberg announced that they had formed a cryptocurrency index, which is significant for a few reasons. First, Bloomberg only caters to institutional clients so their index is their first step to widespread institutional involvement. Secondly, in early 2019 we will see ETFs for both BTC and ETH. Chances are Bloomberg’s index will form the basis for a cryptoasset index-based ETF in the next two years. In that same time period, we are also going to see the

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