Peter L. Brandt has been a full time professional commodity and foreign exchange trader for over thirty years. He has worked as a broker to large industrial clients, traded for his... Read more
Even if you have a valid trading system and good risk management if you don’t have the right trading psychology you will not be able to execute it consistently over the long... Read more
Is there a simple moving average monthly trading strategy that crushes buy and hold investing? Buy and hold investing on the S&P 500 index with an exchange traded fund or a lo... Read more
Option trading can be explained as buying or selling a contract with the expectations of making money before the option expires. An option buyer wants an option to go higher and be... Read more
The McClellan oscillator is a market breadth technical indicator used by traders to analyze the New York Stock Exchange listings balance between the advancing and declining stocks... Read more
The MACD-Histogram quantifies the distance between MACD and its 9-day EMA signal line. The histogram reads positive when MACD is above its 9-day EMA and reads negative when the MAC... Read more
In trading and investing post earnings announcement drift (or PEAD) is the theory that a stock’s price action tends to trend in the same direction as an earnings surprise cau... Read more
Stock backtesting software is a tool for doing historical research to discover if mechanical technical entry and exit signals would have lead to profitability in the past. Backtest... Read more
Here is a quick overview for an understanding a standard deviation chart data set. You can see how the examples of the data will fall within one standard deviation of the mean for... Read more
A simple moving average is a technical indicator that you can use to quantify price trends and trading signals. Moving averages can be used for the following: Entry signal Exit sig... Read more
