Rob Hannah has published a potential strategy on his blog Quantifiable Edges. The strategy buys when the S&P 500 makes a new high. I put a twist to it and made the following strategy: Today’s intraday high must be higher than the previous day’s five-day high. The IBS must be lower than 0.15. Exit when…
The overnight edge in the stock market is well documented: By using the tailwind from the close until the next open, you can develop some good short-term trading strategies. In this article, I present 4 overnight trading strategies in the S&P 500. The strategies buy at the close and sell the next day’s open. Because…
I guess most traders have heard that “the trend is your friend“. Personally, I don’t do trend-following strategies, I go the opposite way: buy weakness and sell strength – mean reversion strategies. However, this depends on the instrument you trade and of course on the time frame in trading. In general, most currencies and commodities…