Why Trading The Wrong Timeframe is Killing Your Trading Account

What timeframe should you trade?Here is a big hint: the smaller the timeframe, the more difficult it is to develop a successful system. In other words, developing a system to trade on a 5-minute chart is more difficult than developing a system that trades on a daily bar.There is a lot more noise on the […]

Will A Synthetic VIX Help Your Trading?

On a recent discussion on our EasyLanguage Mastery FaceBook group, a reader pointed out an interesting indicator called, VIX Fix. The VIX Fix was designed by Larry Williams to overcome the limitations of the VIX. What would that be? It’s only available for the S&P 500, Nasdaq Composite and DJIA. But what about the other […]

How To Build Profitable Trading Systems

Building a profitable trading system is very difficult. I’m not going to sugarcoat it. It’s a challenging project where most of your ideas will not work. To make matters worse, you’re bombarded with misleading advertising, confusing claims, and wrong information. Learning a computer language to build a system is excellent, but that’s NOT enough to […]

Why You Need To Trade Live NOW!

I’m often asked, how will I know when a trading system is ready to go live? After much testing and verification the performance report may look great. Then several months of simulated trading looks good too. However, I’l often hear “But I still don’t think that it’s ready.” UncertaintyThis feeling is something all traders feel. I […]

Is The Christmas Season Bullish For U.S. Markets?

Top 4 Myths of System Trading

So you want to become a successful system trader. That’s great! Back in 2006, I had a great idea. I was going to become a day trader and make a bunch of money. So, I did something brilliant. I borrowed $20,000 on credit cards (cash advance) to fund my new endeavor.Making a bunch of money […]

Does The Predictive Voss Indicator Work?

The August 2019 issue of Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities magazine John Ehlers proposed an interesting looking indicator. This indicator is a cycle indicator that John called a Voss filter. The name of the article is “A Peek Into The Future.” Of course, this indicator is not magic. We’re not looking into the future […]

Can A Price Pattern Beat an Indicator?

How To Create A Multi Agent Trading System

Trading The Equity Curve & Beyond