The Nicolas Darvas box theory is a trend trading method where a breakout of price is bought and held as ranges build on top of each other. Nicolas Darvas used this process in the 1950’... Read more
The flat top breakout chart pattern gets its name from the top of the chart being flat as sellers and buyers have met and agreed at the key resistance level. Once trades take place above tha... 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 low cost mut... 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 causes it to... Read more
Trend Following by Michael Covel is the bible for traders interested in learning how trend trading works as a method. This book explains the principles and concepts that you will need to und... Read more
Market Wizard Richard Dennis was a legendary commodities trader nicknamed the “Prince of the Pit.” Early in his trading career in the 1970s, he was loaned $1,600 and is said to h... Read more
A market trend is the direction that prices are moving in for a specific timeframe. A market can move in an uptrend, a downtrend, and other times just go sideways inside a price range. Here... Read more
David Winton Harding is a billionaire trend following quant trader, and the founder and CEO of Winton Group. His fund was launched in 1997 with $1.6 million in assets and now has approximate... Read more
Moving averages are technical trading indicators for capturing trends. This post shows the backtesting data and system equity curve versus buy and hold using TrendSpider.com. This is the ba... Read more
Buy and hold investing on the S&P 500 index with a low cost mutual fund is a top performing system first made popular by Jack Bogle. Warren Buffett also recommends this strategy as a way... Read more
