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A quantitative approach to profit in the US equity and futures markets, trading the markets like professional card counters are playing Blackjack or expert poker players are playing Poker. The key is to have the odds on your side and bet accordingly, knowing what, when, where, why and how much to bet on each trade or wager. |
Daily Commentary - Posted by TradingTheOdds on December 30, 2011
When the markets showed an extraordinary strong performance on those sessions immediately preceding Christmas Day, but far less convincingly returns between Christmas Day and the end of the year, as a consequence the S&P 500 had performed better
Daily Commentary - Posted by TradingTheOdds on December 29, 2011
Wednesday's sessions has been unique in many respects. It was the first 90%+ down volume day since 1965, Gold posted its biggest one-day loss (-1.75%) since 1969, down more than -2.0% two days after Christmas Day for the first time since 1969, alway
Daily Commentary - Posted by TradingTheOdds on December 28, 2011
At time of writing (11:11 am ET), the S&P 500 is currently down -0.81%, which might provide a favorable intermediate-term buying opportunity. On Tuesday, December 27, more than 4.5% of NYSE listed issues closed at a fresh 52-week high for the 4t
Daily Commentary - Posted by TradingTheOdds on December 26, 2011
The Santa Claus rally has come in a bit late this year, but not too late, and its delayed presents had been quite impressive so far. The SPY (S&P 500 SPDR) closed out the Xmas week with a 3.95% gain, closing above the previous session's high on
Daily Commentary - Posted by TradingTheOdds on December 25, 2011
Due to the fact that calendar effects (e.g. historical return behavior surrounding closings of the New York Stock Exchange) play an important part in my studies and blog postings, I have been searching for a complete and accurate listing of all fores
Daily Commentary - Posted by TradingTheOdds on December 21, 2011
With two sessions left before Christmas, it may be time to check for the markets performance during the last couple of sessions of a year. Table I below shows all occurrences (since 1930) and the S&P 500 performance assumed one went long on clos
Featured, Studies - Posted by TradingTheOdds on December 21, 2011
A couple of months ago I introduced blog readers to my modification of Wilder's Relative Strength Index (RSI) ( see Modified RSI(2), Buying Power and Intermediate-Term Outlook ), utilizing an underlying's high | low | close (instead of close vs. pre
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