Here are today’s scans. (Answer to the question about how these are created: They are scans based on codes and algos I built. They run in TradeStation.)
Stock scans for 3/28/11
Here is the sheet from last week’s webinar: link here
Stock scans for 3/25
I talked quite a bit in the webinar I gave last week about using daily stock scans to prepare for the trading day. I also said I would post the scans I send to SMB traders for a couple weeks, so here they are for end of day Friday: http://www.scribd.com/full/51659164?access_key=key-1n2p1ltutjqqmqhxfg3u http://www.scribd.com/full/51659163?access_key=key-dla3wwlyk1truwh9csy
Are We Reading This Wrong?
It seems like I saw a thousand tweets this week about this paper, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. The general sense was that the article supported trend following, specifically trend following for day traders, as a profitable trading strategy, but after reading the paper, I came away with a … Read More
A question for the trading community: what do you really want?
Adam asks a question of the trading community.
Extraordinary Situation; Ordinary Trade.
In yesterday’s post, I made a case for a bounce play in the Japanese stock market. Last night’s extreme move makes this call look kind of silly in retrospect, but I want to highlight some important points and lessons here. First of all, this really highlights the difference between “armchair quarterbacking” or “time machine trading” (as we like to call … Read More
Market reactions to “Acts of God”
In my daily report for Waverly Advisors I issued a short-term buy on the Nikkei 225 futures. Obviously, this is a controversial trade fraught with difficulty, but I thought it might be interesting to think about this type of situation from a technical perspective. First of all, please read the link above. Before reducing the situation to a set of … Read More