Top Ten Bullish and Bearish Chart Patterns

This table summarizes nicely some statistics on chart patterns from the book by Thomas N. Bulkowski, Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns.

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Trading Thoughts: Learning To Breathe Pt.1

A superb post by Illiquid: Learning To Breathe Pt.1. I’ve been in similar situations, not the almost blow-up, but the questioning of whether it is all worth it or not, will it ever work out for me and are my results a reflection of what I want out of the market in some unrealized subconscious. […]

Hard Right? Edge on exits

While looking up and reading more about exits I came across the following article on Hard Right Edge, Alan Farley’s website. I usually enjoy reading his setups and analysis articles and think there’s a lot of good material posted there so this one on exits was quite intriguing, and this caught my eye:
Take the time […]

Ten Tasks of Top Trading by Van Tharp

Found a very interesting article on trading, process and psychology, by the excellent trading guru Van K. Tharp. The article was originally published in the MTA Journal in the winter of 1992/1993. I think most of it is still very useful these days. Maybe even more. His books are also excellent and I have both […]

Trading Journal

There’s a good post by txtrader about Trading Journals. My broker (IB) doesn’t offer these features and I always distrusted the various trade reporting applications (and didn’t want to pay for them hehe) so I’m keeping track of my trades in a spreadsheet I setup for this. I record my trades at the end of […]

Best business in the world

I don’t usually visit about.com but I got to this page through searching for some stuff and found this interesting interview. I especially agree with the saying that it’s one of the toughest yet most interesting activities I can think of.
The Best Business in the World
With all of the business opportunities out there, why trading? […]

Stops and Exits

The more I trade the more I find myself obsessed with stops and exits, it is an endless guesswork of what makes a better exit strategy, particularily for trailing once your initial stop is safe. One of the most annoying things as mentioned in an earlier post is to see a position reverese immediately after […]

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