Category: strategies

To help you get started in trading, we have summarized 10 free swing trading strategies that work. The internet is flooded with anecdotal evidence about how to swing trade and

ETFs vs futures – what should you trade? EU residents are not eligible for trading most US-domiciled/registered ETFs. Because of this, EU retail clients and traders are looking for alternatives:

How can you avoid or minimize that trading strategies stop working? This is one of the most important aspects in trading because trading strategies stop working – sooner or later.

Why do trading strategies stop working? Strategies stop working mainly because of curve fitting, structural and cyclical changes, survivorship bias, behavioral mistakes, commissions, and slippage. Short-term trading is a zero-sum

Should you use profit target in your trading strategy? Many traders use various forms of stops in their trading. One of them is the profit target. A profit target is

Does quant trading work, and if so, how can you make quant trading work for you? Quant trading (quantitative trading) might sound complicated, but don’t let the terms scare you

In the US, the options expiration happens on the Friday before the 3rd Saturday each month. An often referred to effect is the options expiration week effect. Is this effect

Which time frame is best in trading? We believe the best time frame in trading is daily bars. Every time frame has its pros and cons, but we recommend being

A few days ago, we witnessed major moves in both long-term Treasuries (TLT) and the S&P 500 (SPY). That is not abnormal: when the going gets tough in stocks, many

There are many effects and seasonalities in the stock market. One frequently mentioned seasonality is the first trading day of the month effect. Is the first trading day of the

The Holiday effect on the stock market is a well-known anomaly and seasonality. Is there a way to profit from the holiday effect seasonality? Are there any holiday effects in

Breakout trading strategies are popular and many traders label themselves as breakout traders. We are not, we are agnostic and trade whatever strategy we believe is rational and smart, but

In a previous article, we presented an S&P 500 and gold rotation strategy. Today we test a sector rotation strategy between S&P 500 and gold miners. Let’s call the strategy

There are plenty of seasonalities in the markets that you can develop into seasonal trading strategies. Today we look at seasonalities in the oil price. It turns out that all

The end-of-month effect is a well-known trading strategy in the stock market. We have covered this anomaly before. To get you started on what this strategy is all about we

Many traders look at the gold and S&P 500 ratio. The ratio can be used to create sector rotation strategies are popular. One of the reasons is the anticipation of

This article presents a volatility trading strategy in the S&P 500. Why volatility? In order to make money trading, you need prey. One of the prerequisites for trading is volatility.

In this article, we discuss the consumer staple ETF XLP, why it’s such a great trading vehicle, and why XLP trading strategies work very well. Even better, XLP trading strategies

Overnight stock trading strategies are popular for a good reason: they offer good risk and reward. All markets are different and have their own seasonalities and tendencies, but in the

Is it possible to find inefficiencies in the markets? Yes, it’s possible to find inefficiencies in the markets. However, if you want to consistently make money in the markets, you

How many candlestick patterns are there? There is most likely an unlimited number of patterns, where the minority has been labeled or given a name. Our research indicates there are

We have recently compiled all the free trading strategies into a 24-page PDF document. The PDF-file contains the logic and Amibroker code for all strategies/ideas. The original articles mostly contained

This article presents some trend following strategies on Bitcoin. Cryptocurrency markets have many of the characteristics of the commodities markets: Wild swings and gyrations, both up and down, exactly what

Linear vs logarithmic charts and scale is important to understand because the difference between linear and logarithmic charts might be huge – the bigger the scale the more it matters.

Trend following strategies and systems are popular, especially in the commodity markets, and we aim to shed some light on this type of investing in this article. In this article,

Bond trading strategies are difficult to find. Bonds are susceptible to erratic macro numbers and we believe bonds are harder to trade than stocks. Can the Japanese stock market predict

Most traders test their trading ideas on all their available data and conclude “yes or no” to go live with the strategy. But it’s a major problem with this method:

Keltner Bands (Keltner Channels) is a lesser-known sibling of the Bollinger Bands which are widely used and pretty famous. Despite being rather unknown, Keltner Bands are still included in most

Larry Connors and Cesar Alvarez revealed a trading strategy called Double Seven in their book Short Term Trading Strategies That Work. This is a fairly simple system that at the

How do you create or build a mean reversion strategy? What are the pros and cons of mean reversion trading strategies? Do mean reversion strategies work? This article gives you

Trend following systems in gold work. Below we present a very simple trend following system in gold: In this article, we look at how you can use the 12-month (250-day)

The ATR indicator is useful on its own and can be used to develop an Average True Range trading strategy. The Average True Range (ATR) was developed by Welles Wilder

The anatomy of a bear market Many traders believe, as a rule of thumb, that a bear market is a market which goes down 20% or more. But there is,