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Judgmental “Heuristics” Or Biases and Developing Your Trading System: Part I By, Dr. Van K. Tharp

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Editor’s Note: Dr. Van Tharp’s content is timeless and our goal is to continue to share his material with our readers. Today’s tip is material from a past article. At any given instant, over two billion bits of information impinge upon your senses. Yet consciously, we can only process “7 +or – 2 chunks” of information. This tremendous reduction in the information necessary to act upon external signals or make decisions is accomplished through various “heuristic” rules or shortcuts. These rules, which are essential if you are to make any […]

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Sideways Normal Market Type – Market Update: May 3rd, 2023 By, RJ Hixson

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If you would like to read this article in a downloadable pdf format, click here. Part I: The World Market Model The same headline and market type as last month? How boring! Though things may seem calm, there’s dynamic movement just under the surface. What’s going on underneath? Movement towards more strength, more weakness, or net break-even? Van’s World Market Model gives us insights. Let’s take a look and see. US stock market segments went from mostly yellow last month to mostly brown this month. The S&P is still yellow, with

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Procrastination and System Development By, Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.

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A note to readers: While much of this article’s content is timeless, it is from a past publication and may contain outdated information, missing links or images. My research suggests that the problems people have in developing a trading system fall into five different categories. The first three areas prevent traders from ever starting (or finishing) the development of a trading system. These include computer/technology phobia, procrastination, and being overwhelmed by the whole process. The last two problems tend to prevent the trader from coming up with a workable system.

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My Love of System Design and the Indicator That Keeps Helping Today By, D.R. Barton, Jr.

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Early in my work life, I was utterly smitten with a new beverage of choice—I discovered the wonders of wine. Before that, I was a die-hard beer aficionado and even brewed my own concoctions at home. That’s not much of a surprise, given my background in chemical engineering. The transformation was anything but subtle. While employed at DuPont, I was presented with an opportunity to lead the start-up of a new carbon fiber composites manufacturing plant. The catch? I’d have to spend a considerable amount of time abroad, as a

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Update on Cryptocurrencies: April 16th, 2023 By, Nolan Loxton

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If you would like to read this article in a downloadable pdf format, click here. In July 2021 the S&P Cryptocurrency Broad Digital Market (BDM) Index (Ticker: SPCBDM) launched with the objective of being a broad investable digital asset universe benchmark. The index launched on July 13th, 2021, and has a 10-year history based on the index methodology on the launch date. 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

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