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 [...]

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Scalpers, Intra-Day, Position & Swing traders alike benefit from the correlations seen between the US Dollar Futures Index (DX) & Commodity Futures such as Gold (GC) & Crude Oil (GC).
The US Dollar Index Futures is one of the most widely-recognized electronically-trader markets in the world.
Comparing the USD against a basket of major [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

If you are looking at purchasing or leasing a trading system, or looking at following a publisher’s trading signals, a legitimate question to ask the vendor is “do you trade this with your own money?”
While the answer to this question can be illuminating, and assuming you get a truthful answer, is it [...]

Wednesday, January 27, 2010
by: Kevin Davey
In today’s electronic age of trading, everything seems very easy.  Just log on, point and click, and viola! – a trade is opened or closed.  Pretty simple.
But, lurking under that simplicity is a huge hidden danger – what do you do when things go wrong?  Technology and infrastructure sometimes fail, [...]

Monday, January 25, 2010

by: Kevin J. Davey
We all have the need to be right. Think about when you were in school – you did your best to be right, and you were graded on your efforts. You took standardized tests to measure how right you were. All your life, you have tried to pick the [...]

Tuesday, December 29, 2009
You do not hear that often the word trend capture in commodity trading. Most of the time it is called Trend following. The difference however depending on how the commodity trader or commodity trading advisor trades there are times big draw downs occur as well as big profits are given back in [...]

Monday, December 28, 2009
With recent reports of a resurgence in manufacturing and employment, the mirage of “green shoots” conjured up by Obama’s spinmeisters and hyped by a credulous news media has mutated into full-blown hallucination.  Check out this upbeat headline from Saturday’s edition of the Wall Street Journal: “Manufacturing, Job Market Show Progress”. This follows [...]

Friday, December 4, 2009
An objective high percentage method of trading valid in any market and any time frame:
I was sitting as an invited “expert trader” on a panel with 4 other traders at the 2009 Las Vegas TradersExpo last week.  They called the standing room only panel discussion: “Successful Strategies for Profiting from Forex Trading.”
They [...]