Is an ETF's share price driven by supply and demand for the ETF shares themselves or by the total value of the ETF's holdings? In other words, is...
I am an intermediate-term trend follower. Some call it position trading. I don’t short-sell because studies show that shorting adds approximately...
I think of the broad indices as leaders and the commodity producers (COPX etc.) as followers. Granted, the producers had been driven into the...
Nobody who uses stop orders to exit from their trades would say you should ever relax that discipline by cancelling an order or lowering the stop...
Last week I posted a theory as to why most investors or traders under-perform the market, and how the Wisdom of Crowds plays a role. I was full of...
It is common knowledge that most hedge funds, mutual funds, and advisors under-perform the general market. Even Warren Buffet has fallen behind!...
I started trend following (deep stop orders for fairly long hold periods, no shorts) in 2015. I knew I hadn’t hit a bear market or flash crash yet...
For me it's that bonds and gold can also crash, but later, less, and recovering sooner.
I trade (or "invest" since I hold for a couple months on average) mainly using trendlines. I like to combine that with countertrend in a shorter...
Say I'm a long-only trend follower who stops out whenever something loses 7% from the previous high. That preserves my capital, or does it? If I...
My system for the past year is unusual and complicated. It is a big spreadsheet with columns deriving from various aspects of the equity price...
Here is something I haven't come across in the literature I've read. The question is, how to define global wealth, what determines global wealth,...
No one seems to trade like I do. It's a weighted blend of trend-following and global value. Long only. 100% invested. No leverage. To date mostly...
I just read “Flash Boys” by Michael Lewis. Is the book accurate? Does “front-running” ever happen to retail traders?
Here's a general price action question. Compare two major declines. They both fall the same percentage but one occurs in a single day (flash...
I trend-follow currently-cheap countries (ETFs representing foreign stock markets) and commodity indexes (like SLV and energy-related ETFs). I...
I trade from an account. Sometimes I withdraw from it to pay an expense. Sometimes I add new savings. How do I calculate performance (ROI) on that...
Newbie here. I don’t want to buy-and-hold anymore. Nor day-trade. I want to buy stocks with low PEs (and underpriced commodity ETFs) when they...
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