Category: Market Edge

Emini Trading Strategy: The Short Side. Today, we are going to develop an emini trading system from start to finish. This trading system is going to be a ‘scalping’ day trading strategy that is focused on the Emini financial futures contracts, including: Emini SP500 Emini Russell Emini Dow …

I am going to make a bold proclamation. It is nearly impossible to make money by shorting publically traded, individually listed company stocks. The very nature of the stock market is capital formation for long-term investing. Before a stock is even listed on an exchange, the business model …

One of the great things about learning how to backtest and program trading strategies is the exhilarating sense of independence, that feeling of ‘doing things yourself’. In many ways, backtesting and programming trading strategies is very much an artistic endeavor. I am no artist. However, once you learn how to …

Today I wanted to talk about a well-known market bias, and how you can incorporate this bias into an actual trading strategy for the Emini SP500 futures contract. A lot of traders will look at a chart and they will see ‘patterns’ emerge. In fact, there is an …

Rithmic Trading: trading technology you know little about Thanks for reading. Today I want to talk about Rithmic trading and a piece of trading technology that they have recently released to the retail trading community. Most people that trade futures contracts have heard the name ‘Rithmic’ but they …

Thanks for reading. Today we are going to talk about an excellent trading strategy based upon the RSI or Relative Strength Index. As much as I would love to take all of the credit for this trading strategy, the real credit goes to Larry Connors and Cesar Alvarez. …

Thanks for reading today’s review of High Probability ETF Trading: 7 Professional Strategies to Improve Your EFT Trading I have a confession. I am a sucker for trading books. They say that “You should never judge a book by its cover.” Yet this is exactly what I do. …

Thanks for reading! Today, we are going to talk about a day trading strategy for the Emini SP500 futures contract. Included in this strategy will be a complete description, which includes exact code and statistical output. Before I jump into this, I want the audience to know that I …

When it comes to intraday trading strategies, is the trend really your friend? We often hear this oft-repeated maxim about how we should always trade with the trend. That we should, “go with the flow” and that “trend trading works.”  We are told that trading against the trend …