Friday, March 5, 2010
If you’ve been around trading for a while, you probably have seen system vendors tout their performance results via “backtest” or “walkforward test” reports.  Unfortunately, most people think these two types of tests are the same, or virtually the same.  Nothing could be further from the truth.
So, what is the difference between [...]

Monday, March 1, 2010
It is easy to know when to start following an advisor or trading system – start trading as soon as you have determined it is the right investment for you.  But, do you know when you’ll stop following that new system?
Whether you are following your own trading system, or following an advisory, [...]

Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Would you believe that a 14th century priest, and his concepts, can help make you a better trader?  Well, English logician and Franciscan friar William of Ockham really can make you a better trader.
Ockham developed the concept commonly referred to as Occam’s Razor.  Simply put, this principle favors the simple over the [...]

Friday, February 19, 2010
I have been trading futures for about 18 years, and many of the early years were consumed with searching for the “perfect” trading system.  One of the approaches I found that seemed to make sense was scale trading.  It is an interesting concept that “wins” most of the time, but is really [...]

Thursday, February 18, 2010

According to the Taylor Technique, today was a Sell Short Day for the 10 year T Note futures; actually for all along the Treasury curve. I was watching Ten Years today.
Monday through Thursday last week saw bearish action; the open was higher than the close for those four sessions.  Friday was the [...]

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Last Thursday I did a web seminar on swing trading using the methods I use and teach for my Swing Trader’s Insight advisory.  The core methodology I use is based on the work of George Douglas Taylor, what I call the Taylor Technique.
You can read a basic primer on the Taylor Technique [...]

Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Introduction
This so called recovery is problematic and now it is slowly entering a new dangerous phase.  Bank losses have now been eclipsed as the major issue as sovereign debt emerges in a more sinister manner.  This is only part of the problem and it will be overcome in the short term leading [...]

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Although I was an economics major in college, I’ve been a technical trader for most of my trading career.  I don’t disregard the fundamentals, but I find them hard to trade off of.  (Not to mention that there’s always someone with better access to fundamental info).  I’ve found technical analysis to be [...]

Friday, February 5, 2010
If you’ve been trading futures, commodities or forex for any amount of time, chances are you’ve heard the phrase “past performance is not necessarily indicative of (or no guarantee of) future results.”  It is a government mandated statement that is required for groups involved in certain trading activities.  And as you’ll see, [...]

Friday, February 5, 2010
Although yesterday’s selloff wasn’t quite ugly enough to write home about, only a fool would dismiss the possibility that the next selloff will be. We checked the Wall Street Journal’s online edition to determine the cause of the Dow’s 268-point plunge, but there wasn’t much to persuade us.  A headline attributed the [...]

Monday, February 1, 2010
by: Kevin Davey
A new trader I know was lamenting about a futures trading system he was interested in trading.  “I like it a lot,” he said, “but it holds trades overnight.  That means I can only trade half as many contracts, because of the exchange margin requirements.  I am trying to trade [...]