Here is a question about how much time to include on a chart.

I normally trade the e-mini SP and Dow during the regular trading hours session. When I look at the signals generated on a 24H chart vs. a RTH chart, I often get conflicting buy and sell signals during the opening sequence. I’d assume 24H is better (data continuity-wise); however, the session’s low vo

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Source - http://splendidinvestor.com/2006/02/18/globex-vs-pit-trading-hours/

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You might be wondering why we need to take a detour to discuss The Sentiment Cycle. Surely mechanical trading is designed to do away with emotions, right?

Yes, a good trading system helps us stay the course and do the right thing. It prevents us from chasing performance, from loading the boat at the top. A good trading system does not allow us to experience the trauma of puking at the

In December, I wrote about The Genographic Project that is underway, and how we can each support and participate in the study to find our deep genetic lineage.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. (standing), Harvard scholar and serie

After reading Size Matters, I fired an email off to The Quant, who has been sleep-deprived since his new son’s arrival in late-December. Still, what he can do with one brain cell may certainly be much more than my entire brain, so here it is.

Teresa’s Question

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Source - http://splendidinvestor.com/2006/02/09/thoughts-on-the-kelly-criterion/

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It was only a couple of weeks ago that I posted a question to myself about a tweezer top seen on the weekly chart of AAPL.
Since then, it’s been down.

On the daily charts, we can see two really good examples of the largest retracement pattern around: The ABC Correction. This is an insane pullback, but