So said Dr Ernest Chang on yesterday’s Zoom presentation at the STA’s monthly meeting. Known as Ernie among friends, he is charming, witty and speaks perfect English – albeit with a Chinese accent. With my very limited knowledge of all […]
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‘Tail Hedging in the Age of Machine Learning’: and “don’t start with a new black box”
Posted in Finance, Markets, STA charts, STA news, Technical Analysis Courses, Trading, Trending
Tags: Machine learning. Deep Learning. Parameters
Tags: Machine learning. Deep Learning. Parameters
Colours, clashes and clichés: How and why use colourful charts
Plowden & Smith are an expert art and antiques conservation business in south London who I follow on LinkedIn. Tackling projects great and small, their level of expertise and willingness to share some of it is refreshing. Very recently they […]
Posted in General, STA news, Technical Analysis Courses, Trading, Trending
Tags: confidence, Hard Data, Opinion Surveys, Survey Data
Tags: confidence, Hard Data, Opinion Surveys, Survey Data
Confidence and the Corona Virus: What are consumers to make of it all?
The word ‘confidence’ has been bandied about a lot of late; more specifically, prefaced by ‘lack of’. Currently centre stage in Britain is the Secretary of State for Education, the Rt Hon Gavin Williamson CBE. He is merely one among […]
Posted in Finance, Markets, STA charts, STA news, Technical Analysis Courses, Trading, Trending
Tags: confidence, Hard Data, Opinion Surveys, Survey Data
Tags: confidence, Hard Data, Opinion Surveys, Survey Data
How best to present technical analysis: Media formats and delivery systems
My daughter, an international news journalist, has been increasingly asked to do radio work. She does daily, weekly and monthly print offerings for mainstream media, as well as television coverage of breaking news, plus magazine features. She was the one […]
‘Too Much and Never Enough: My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man’ – A tell-all memoir by Mary Trump
Unsurprisingly this book, published on the 14th July 2020 and which her uncle, the US President tried to ban, sold 1 million copies in its first day! From some of the brief book reviews I’ve read, Fred Trump Senior (Donald’s […]
Everyone hates a short seller: Forgetting they’re an important tool of discovery
In any business transaction, be it financial, real estate or retail therapy, for every buyer there must be a seller. One can either sell something one already owns, or sell ahead of delivery to lock in the price. The latter […]
Posted in Finance, Markets, STA news, Technical Analysis, Technical Analysis Courses, Trading, Trending
Tags: hedge funds, Long/short
Tags: hedge funds, Long/short
An economist’s lexicon: Alphabet soup to describe economic recovery
Nouriel Roubini @Nouriel · Jul 21 What the shape of the recovery? A V-shaped recovery with rapid return to strong growth? An anemic sub-par recovery that is U-shaped? A double-dip W recession as a second wave emerges? An L-shaped depression […]
Posted in Finance, Markets, STA news, Technical Analysis, Technical Analysis Courses, Trading, Trending
Tags: retracements, Reversal patterns, targets
Tags: retracements, Reversal patterns, targets
Tom DeMark sees the S&P hitting 3,486 before the rally ends
Click here to read ZeroHedge’s article about iconic technican, Tom deMark.
Mind over matter: Especially important under lockdown conditions
Anyone involved in the trading community will know of the plethora of classes, coaches, gurus and what not out there willing to turn you into an overnight success. Each has their special angle, be it motivation, risk control, discipline and […]
Posted in Finance, Markets, STA news, Technical Analysis Courses, Trading, Trending
Tags: Behavioural finance, Space, Trading Coaches
Tags: Behavioural finance, Space, Trading Coaches
History of the Gartley Pattern: With thanks to Larry Pesavento and Leslie Jouflas
With precious little interesting to do in lockdown London – other than going for walks and enjoying the beautiful sunshine – I decided to attack paperwork at home. Not the utility bills, insurance policies and income tax, but the piles […]
Posted in Finance, Markets, STA news, Technical Analysis Courses, Trading, Trending
Tags: Fibonacci, Retracement, Swing Trading
Tags: Fibonacci, Retracement, Swing Trading
Q: When is an island not an island? A: No, the answer isn’t Brexit Britain
With lockdown being de rigueur this season, and all the talk of family bubbles, travel corridors, quarantining and social isolation, I happened to spot a few potential island reversals in the charts. Which then set me thinking about their validity, […]
Posted in Finance, Markets, STA charts, STA news, Technical Analysis, Technical Analysis Courses, Trading, Trending
Tags: Fibonacci Retracements, gaps, Island Reversals, moving averages
Tags: Fibonacci Retracements, gaps, Island Reversals, moving averages
‘Critical Cycles’: What you need to know and how to take advantage
The rather dry title of this month’s STA webinar presented by Andrew Pancholi who promised us a ‘’40 minute whistle-stop tour of 30 years of work’’. He lived up to his threat and I urge all and sundry to watch […]
Posted in Finance, Markets, STA charts, STA education, STA news, Technical Analysis, Trading, Trending
Tags: cycles, history, timing
Tags: cycles, history, timing
‘Pieces of eight’: And the real value of money
You probably remember this expression from the film ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’. This makes sense, because in those days Spanish coins were minted with silver mined in Latin America, based on a system of 8 ‘reales’ – as Brazil’s currency […]
‘Flash Crash’ in review: Were they looking for just anyone to blame?
Almost exactly 10 years ago – 6 May 2010 at 14:32 US Eastern Time – the Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered its second worst ever intra-day loss of 998 points – in just 5 minutes; it then took half an […]
The world’s most and least expensive cities: Where is the relative value?
Very recently the 2020 Cost of Living Report was published covering 133 cities around the globe, listing which were the most expensive to live in. Tied in top spot were Singapore, Hong Kong and Osaka, with New York in 4th […]
Posted in Finance, Markets, STA news, Technical Analysis Courses, Trading, Trending
Tags: Drama, Proportion, Size
Tags: Drama, Proportion, Size
Art is anything and everywhere: The skill is in the interpretation
Artist and prize-winning potter, Grayson Perry, has been busy during the lock-down. A social butterfly by nature, oft-spotted at Royal Academy parties sporting a little girl Alice in Wonderland look, last night he and his wife hosted an hour-long TV […]
Posted in Finance, Markets, STA charts, STA news, Technical Analysis Courses, Trading, Trending
Tags: Interpretation, Language, Symbols
Tags: Interpretation, Language, Symbols
When is parabolic too much? Answer: when it suddenly reverses
Charts for this piece: Tesla, Virgin Galactic (Zero Hedge), palladium, Argentine new bond prices as IMF negotiates, Lebanese bond yields 1000%. Media outlets – and not just financial ones – have been getting terribly excited about the share price of […]
Posted in Finance, Markets, STA news, Technical Analysis, Technical Analysis Courses, Trading, Trending
Tags: Excess, momentum
Tags: Excess, momentum
Volatile markets can make you sick – literally: John Coates on viruses and volatility
Published on the 10th April 2020 in the Financial Times newspaper, this wasn’t the first time Mr Coates had contributed an article. Acting on a hunch he had had when running a trading desk for Deutsche Bank, he then retrained […]
Posted in Finance, Markets, STA news, Technical Analysis Courses, Trading, Trending
Tags: Information, risk appetite, Stress, Technical Analysis Courses, volatility
Tags: Information, risk appetite, Stress, Technical Analysis Courses, volatility
‘Crush it with Clouds’ by Sankar Sharma MSTA: If only we could do the same with Covid-19
As a handful of countries start lifting corona-virus related restrictions, Britain looks set to enter another 3 weeks of lockdown. Tuesday the 14th April was the second STA Monthly Meeting that was held online due to limits to the size […]
Posted in STA news, Technical Analysis, Technical Analysis Courses, Technical Analysis Training, Trading, Trending
Tags: Ichimoku Clouds, return, reward, risk, stops
Tags: Ichimoku Clouds, return, reward, risk, stops
‘Beware the Ides of March’: Remembering to keep a sense of proportion
Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar came to a sticky end on the 15th of March, lending the phrase negative connotations ever since. In fact, an Ide is a very ancient word for certain dates in the calendar, the first full moon of […]
Posted in Finance, Markets, STA news, Technical Analysis, Technical Analysis Courses, Trading, Trending
Tags: Bear, Bull, percentage, Proportion, Technical Analysis Courses
Tags: Bear, Bull, percentage, Proportion, Technical Analysis Courses
Tuesday’s meetings turned on their heads: But we still get to see them
I’m a regular presence at Tuesday’s monthly meetings of the Society of Technical Analysts at the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales’ lovely premises at One Moorgate Place, City of London. Partly because I so enjoy catching up […]
Posted in Finance, Markets, STA news, Technical Analysis Courses, Trading, Trending
Tags: Backtesting, Habits, Home Study Course, Video, Working from Home
Tags: Backtesting, Habits, Home Study Course, Video, Working from Home
How the markets worked a long time ago: And how staff dressed for work
Quite by chance, about 10 days ago, someone put me on to a video available (to those who pay a television licence fee) on BBC iPlayer. Called ‘The Markets’, it was released in 1976 and is an interesting vignette of […]
Posted in Finance, Markets, STA news, Technical Analysis Courses, Trading, Trending
Tags: Banking, Jobber, Stockbroker, volatility
Tags: Banking, Jobber, Stockbroker, volatility
Charting the markets with IG TV: Safe havens ahoy! But do you know where they are?
A very brave Joshua Mahoney of the IG platform faces an incredibly tricky time explaining the carnage in all sorts of markets on the morning of Monday 9th March 2020 – plus, trying to forecast the next step. Well done, […]
Posted in Finance, STA news, Technical Analysis, Technical Analysis Courses
Tags: Crashing stock indices, gold, oil, Safe-havens
Tags: Crashing stock indices, gold, oil, Safe-havens
That was the Week that Was: And then the client asks: ’’how are you left?’’
A phrase dreaded by market makers in all areas of finance who, because they are obliged to make two-way prices for existing clients throughout the business day, means there are more difficult orders on the way and the most recent […]
Posted in Finance, Markets, STA news, Technical Analysis, Technical Analysis Courses, Trading, Trending
Tags: Equities, percentage, Relative Performance, Start Point
Tags: Equities, percentage, Relative Performance, Start Point
Book review: ‘Unchartered: How to map the future together’ by Margaret Heffernan, published by Simon & Schuster
The Weekend FT is strong on book reviews, generally well-written, some good, rarely bad, and never indifferent. Mercifully, they cover a lot more than fiction because, as my friend the Supreme Court judge says: ‘’when you have to read a […]
Posted in Finance, Markets, STA news, Technical Analysis Courses, Trading, Trending
Tags: forecasting, Received Wisdom, Unchartered
Tags: forecasting, Received Wisdom, Unchartered
Robin Griffiths, who has pedigree, overviews the last 50 years: Because the STA also has 50 years under its belt
Well, we’ll have to give it to him, he’s done 53 years as a professional technical analyst/strategist, despite a BA in economics from Nottingham University. His first City job was at stockbrokers Phillips and Drew – one of the many […]
Posted in Finance, Markets, STA news, Technical Analysis, Technical Analysis Courses, Trading, Trending
Tags: Asset classes, cycles, demographics
Tags: Asset classes, cycles, demographics
‘Harbingers of failure’ versus ‘lead customers’: Notes from Tim Harford provoke contrarian thinking
Earlier this month Tim Harford, a Financial Times (TimHarford@nullft.com) writer and author of best-selling books ‘The Undercover Economist’ and ‘Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy’ – who I rate highly, published an article about losers – in which category […]
Posted in Finance, Markets, STA news, Technical Analysis Courses, Trading, Trending
Tags: Contrarian, divergence, Market Signals, Technical Analysis Courses
Tags: Contrarian, divergence, Market Signals, Technical Analysis Courses
It’s my birthday this month, so I’m looking at monthly candles: Not blowing them out though
Many markets this January have been a ‘Tale of Two Cities’ – or halves anyway. This has created a series of very interesting, and sometimes rare, single or two-candle patterns, reminding me of the song ‘Candle in the Wind’. Like […]
Tremendous turnout for equities in 2019: Despite Sino-US trade spat
I’m probably preaching to the converted, but: beware media headlines. Bad news is shocking, and shocking sells newspapers. Sensationalist wording gets eyeballs on social media. Slick and surprising video footage gets clicks; so it goes, and has always; therefore journalists […]
Posted in Finance, Markets, STA news, Technical Analysis, Technical Analysis Courses, Trading, Trending
Tags: Equities, percentage, Relative Performance, Start Point
Tags: Equities, percentage, Relative Performance, Start Point
Charting the Markets on IG TV: With IG’s Senior Market Analyst Joshua Mahony
The TV and media team and IG are a slick lot with a busy production schedule. As well as producing text and video content, they coordinate news feeds for the platform and do their own analysis. From Monday to Friday […]
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