Category Archives: Trading Articles

Trading Wisdom: Discipline, Experience, and Market Maturity

The most frequent question I am asked is, “Which is the best book for me[...]

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Why Traders Lose: Discipline, Risk Management, and Psychology

During a ‘trading more effectively’ seminar in the USA, a questionnaire was given to participants[...]

Trading Discipline: How a Written Trading Plan Becomes a Living System

We really lit your fuse with our Profit Prophet series for 1994. Of course, it[...]

Opening Range Breakout Trading: Intraday Momentum and Structure

I know of some very successful day traders who avoid the first hour altogether. I’ve[...]

Trading Ranges: Price Action, Failed Breakouts, and Pullbacks

If the chart is composed of upswings and downswings across the entire screen, then neither[...]

Dynamic Support and Resistance: Volatility and Market Structure

The traditional view of a base of support in technical analysis is a sideways price[...]

Gann’s Cube: The Hexagon Chart for Time Cycle Analysis

Since everything moves in a circle and nothing moves in straight lines, this chart is[...]

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The Gann Wheel: Square of 9 Time and Price Analysis

The Square of 9 is probably W.D. Gann’s most famous Master Chart. Many traders use[...]

Trading Discipline: 10 Rules for Better Execution and Risk Control

BACK in the winter of 2003 I held an online seminar for several hundred of[...]

RSI Divergence Trading: Why Signals Fail in Strong Trends

One of the first things that every trader learns early in his or her career[...]

ADXpress: ADX and DMI Breakout Trading Strategy

In today’s market action, breakouts often move far before making the first retracement. Some power[...]

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Planetary Stock Trading: Eclipses, Transits, and Stock Selection

The most important factor in determining a shift in the stock market is a solar[...]