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Channels 
Part of Art of Chart Reading Channels is an interesting structural behaviour with non-random price movements. With purely random generated data series, channels rarely show up. It is one of the most important evidence that real market data are not ...
Part of Art of Chart Reading Channels is an interesting structural behaviour with non-random price movements. With purely random generated data series, channels rarely show up. It is one of the most important evidence that real market data are not ...
Seasonality With Job Seeking
A picture is worth a thousand words. Following is the Google Trend on the word jobs searched across the globe since 2004. Notice how the search for the word drops consistently near the second half of each year. Then spike back up in the beginning ...
A picture is worth a thousand words. Following is the Google Trend on the word jobs searched across the globe since 2004. Notice how the search for the word drops consistently near the second half of each year. Then spike back up in the beginning ...
Pockets
Part of Art of Chart Reading Pockets have a very special position within the core set of chart patterns. Unlike any other chart patterns, pockets are not defined by what is being there but what is missing. Pockets are very powerful price magnets o ...
Part of Art of Chart Reading Pockets have a very special position within the core set of chart patterns. Unlike any other chart patterns, pockets are not defined by what is being there but what is missing. Pockets are very powerful price magnets o ...
Rising and Falling Wedges
Part of Art of Chart Reading Rising and falling wedges are chart patterns leading to violent breakouts. Most of the time, the breakout direction is opposite to the direction of the wedge. Hence, they are often named as reversal patterns although t ...
Part of Art of Chart Reading Rising and falling wedges are chart patterns leading to violent breakouts. Most of the time, the breakout direction is opposite to the direction of the wedge. Hence, they are often named as reversal patterns although t ...
Head and Shoulders, Not The Shampoo
Part of Art of Chart Reading People often talks about the head and shoulders formation. I have seen many websites showcasing charts after charts that are NOT head and shoulders at all, although they claim so. It is not a good idea mixing up price ...
Part of Art of Chart Reading People often talks about the head and shoulders formation. I have seen many websites showcasing charts after charts that are NOT head and shoulders at all, although they claim so. It is not a good idea mixing up price ...
Essence of Trading: The Three Pillars of Critical Thinking (Part 3)
... continue from part 2 "Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn" - Benjamin Franklin Stop Associating Common Terms With Market Conditions Until You Can Understand What They Really Mean The first most commo ...
... continue from part 2 "Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn" - Benjamin Franklin Stop Associating Common Terms With Market Conditions Until You Can Understand What They Really Mean The first most commo ...
WTF "van Gogh" Platinum Card ...
Sometimes cultural clash can be quite absurd. I just learned that in Asia there is this credit card named "van Gogh" Platinum Card and a financial institution offering the "van Gogh" money management service ... I understand if ...
Sometimes cultural clash can be quite absurd. I just learned that in Asia there is this credit card named "van Gogh" Platinum Card and a financial institution offering the "van Gogh" money management service ... I understand if ...
Essence of Trading: The Three Pillars of Critical Thinking (Part 2)
... continue from part 1 "Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance" - Confucious Objective Evaluation Is Difficult To observe and collect evidence from something physical is quite different from doing the same on abstract data. P ...
... continue from part 1 "Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance" - Confucious Objective Evaluation Is Difficult To observe and collect evidence from something physical is quite different from doing the same on abstract data. P ...
Thanksgiving Week Bias
Thanksgiving in US is the 4th Thursday in November. Here is what to expect during this week based on the Thanksgiving weeks over past 19 years for SPY and 13 years for QQQ Expectation SPY QQQ Volume Compari ...
Thanksgiving in US is the 4th Thursday in November. Here is what to expect during this week based on the Thanksgiving weeks over past 19 years for SPY and 13 years for QQQ Expectation SPY QQQ Volume Compari ...
Simple Stock Buying Technique That Improves Performance
Many investors and swing traders would buy a stock outright when they think it is going to go higher. That, however, may not be the best way to establish your long position especially if your performance is measured by percentage. Here is a simple en ...
Many investors and swing traders would buy a stock outright when they think it is going to go higher. That, however, may not be the best way to establish your long position especially if your performance is measured by percentage. Here is a simple en ...
