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Secrets of Successful Short-Term Trading By, Mark Boucher

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There are some key concepts and principles to successful short-term trading that can catapult your trading success if you apply them consistently. We teach many of these in our short-term trading course, but I’m going to relate a few very important ones to you in this article today. The first principle I want to relate to you today is one I was originally exposed to from the work of W.D. Gann. Quite early in my trading career, I made the trek from Menlo Park California, where I lived, to Pomeroy […]

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Market Mania: Sorting the Historical From the Hysterical (Again) By, D. R. Barton, Jr.

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\ Almost exactly 12 years ago to the day, I wrote in this same space that the market was dropping precipitously due to a downgrade. Except that time, in early August of 2011, it was the Standard and Poor’s Global Ratings that downgraded U.S. credit. Interestingly, the context for the two downgrades was both very much the same and very different. The ”same” parts come from the rating agencies themselves and their reasons for the downgrades. I won’t get into the “insider” politics, but both the 2011 and 2023 downgrades

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It’s Only Five (or Seven or Eight) Stocks… By, D.R. Barton, Jr.

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There have always been certain times when a group of stocks were pulling the rest of the market along. A quick search shows that the term FANG was first used by none other than Mad Money host Jim Cramer in 2013 as an acronym for Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google. Two of them have changed names since then and Apple stock was added soon thereafter to make them the FAANG stocks. After a re-ascent to the top echelon, Microsoft was rightfully added in to give us the FANGMA group. To

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The Value of Simplicity in Trading and Investing: Navigating Complexity with Clarity By, Jeff Boccaccio and Bill Scheidt

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Here’s an old adage that you may have heard before, “Trading is simple, but it’s not easy.” That’s a belief. Another belief is, “Trading is complex and complicated.” If you were to take on each of those beliefs individually and think through some resulting strategies, they would likely lead you in two different directions for trading, and probably to two different sets of trading results. Van Tharp said that we don’t trade the markets, we trade our beliefs about the markets. Your trading performance is based on your actions which

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Update on Cryptocurrencies July 17th, 2023 By, Nolan Loxton

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If you would like to read this article in a downloadable pdf format, click here. The S&P Cryptocurrency Broad Digital Market (BDM) Index (Ticker: SPCBDM) launched in 2021 with the objective of being a broad investable digital asset universe benchmark. The index launched on July 13th, 2021, but has a 10-year calculated history based on the index methodology. Courtesy of S&P Dow Jones Indices, spglobal.com The index had a notable peak in May 2021 of 5,547 and then dropped significantly until July 2021. On November 9th, it set a new high of

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