• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Decoding Markets

  • Access All Areas
  • Courses
  • Free Book
  • Resources
    • Best Books
  • Blog
    • About
    • Free Class
    • Top Posts

Stocks

April 29, 2022 By Joe Marwood Leave a Comment

Do Sell-Side Analysts Know Better?

Stock research reports play a significant role in many investors’ stock selection process. Some use them to get trading ideas, while others, including professional asset managers, include or exclude stocks according to buy/hold/sell ratings. Professional equity research is useful because you can only analyze so many stocks yourself. Condensed information in the form of equity […]

Filed Under: Investing, Stocks, Strategies/ Systems Tagged With: investing, stocks, strategies

April 19, 2022 By Joe Marwood Leave a Comment

Using Fundamental Data To Improve Momentum Investing Strategies

If you are reading this blog you most likely already know about momentum investing strategies. In a nutshell, momentum traders buys past winners, often of the past 12 months, in the hope that these stocks continue to go up. There are several explanations to why momentum investing works. One is that investors buy past winners because […]

Filed Under: Investing, Stocks, Strategies/ Systems Tagged With: Momentum, stocks, trading systems

March 28, 2022 By Joe Marwood Leave a Comment

5 Economic Indicators That Matter To Investors

Recently, I grabbed a book from my library that had been standing there for the past 10 years. It’s called Guide to the 50 Economic Indicators That Really Matter. It’s one of the few books that describe concrete trading strategies that are still relevant. It’s also a great read to brush up on knowledge about economic […]

Filed Under: Investing, Stocks, Strategies/ Systems Tagged With: investing, stocks

March 16, 2022 By Joe Marwood Leave a Comment

How To Make Money In REITs

REIT stands for Real Estate Investment Trust. That’s a company that owns or operates income-generating real estate. REITs are exchange traded, so they can be bought and sold like other financial instruments such as stocks. An investor in a REIT can expect a regular dividend and exposure to the real estate market. In comparison to other […]

Filed Under: Investing, Stocks, Strategies/ Systems Tagged With: investing, reits, stocks

February 28, 2022 By Joe Marwood Leave a Comment

Follow The Leader To Make Money In Stocks

There’s a reason that international traders, whether they’re in Tokyo, Singapore, or London, follow the US markets. The US is the hub of global finance. It’s on Wall Street where everything is happening. Watching the reaction of European markets to the opening of US markets demonstrates this. When the US market bell rings, there’s a […]

Filed Under: Investing, Stocks, Strategies/ Systems Tagged With: investing, stocks, strategies

February 14, 2022 By Joe Marwood Leave a Comment

Can You Make Money From Short Seller Reports?

We collected 70 short-selling reports (since 2015) by two well-known short-sellers, Hindenburg Research and Muddy Waters Research. As our analysis shows, roughly 67 percent of the short recommendations actually traded lower a year later, and the short bets can make you money. What Is Short Selling? Going short a stock is selling it now, without really owning it, […]

Filed Under: Stocks, Strategies/ Systems Tagged With: stocks, trading systems

January 10, 2022 By Joe Marwood 4 Comments

How To Copy The Best Hedge Funds

Recently we evaluated the reported holdings of institutional investors using data from Sharadar. (As a reminder, institutional investors in control of over $100 million are required to report their holdings to the SEC every quarter. This information is made public normally 45 days later in what are called 13F filings). Simple trading strategies that buy the most […]

Filed Under: Investing, Stocks, Strategies/ Systems Tagged With: stocks, trading systems

December 19, 2021 By Decoding Markets 4 Comments

Should You Follow Institutional Investors?

Previously, we looked at retail trading data and found that negative retail sentiment was a better buy signal than postive retail sentiment. If it is profitable to do the opposite of what retail traders are doing, an obvious next step is to look into institutional investor holdings. Institutional investors are obliged to report their holdings on […]

Filed Under: Investing, Stocks, Strategies/ Systems Tagged With: stocks, trading systems

November 23, 2021 By Decoding Markets 5 Comments

How To Make Money Fading Retail Traders

The past couple of years has seen a surge in retail trading which is affecting the market in a real way. People were stuck at home because of the pandemic. Add stimulus checks and volatility and you have the perfect ingredients for an increase in retail trading. Data from Bloomberg Intelligence backs up this theory. […]

Filed Under: How to, Stocks, Strategies/ Systems Tagged With: stocks, trading systems

November 10, 2021 By Decoding Markets 8 Comments

Can You Make Money Buying Just Before Earnings?

Did you know that in 2020, 63% of quarterly earnings releases beat their estimates? That’s slightly higher than the 20 year average of 58%. Even in turbulent years like 2008, earnings surprises still tended to be positive on average. Everyone knows the game. An analysts job is to deliver accurate estimates. Meanwhile, the CFOs of […]

Filed Under: Stocks, Strategies/ Systems Tagged With: stocks, trading systems

October 21, 2021 By Decoding Markets 13 Comments

Do The Best Places to Work Make the Best Investments?

I first published this article in 2015. I wanted to know whether the best companies to work for end up being good companies to invest in. It’s been six years so it’s time to update the data and see what it tells us. Initial Hypothesis My hypothesis is that companies that are voted great places […]

Filed Under: Investing, Stocks, Strategies/ Systems, Top Posts Tagged With: investing, stocks, strategies

September 27, 2021 By Decoding Markets Leave a Comment

How To Deal With Repainting Indicators

Repainting indicators can be very harmful if not used correctly. They are especially dangerous to systematic traders because a repainting indicator typically produces backtest results that are too good to be true. Repainting indicators are particularly pernicious when dealing with complicated formulas and strategies. This is because it can be hard to tell whether an […]

Filed Under: Stocks, Strategies/ Systems, Technical Analysis Tagged With: stocks, trading systems

September 13, 2021 By Joe Marwood 2 Comments

Are We in a Stock Market Bubble? 5 Key Charts

As humans, we have an amazing ability to suspend disbelief. Imagine how many personal mistakes could be avoided if we took a step back and asked, “What is really happening here?” Right now, there’s a strong case to be made that the stock market is in bubble territory. Everyone knows it, but many choose to bury […]

Filed Under: Investing, Opinion, Stocks Tagged With: investing, stocks

August 30, 2021 By Joe Marwood 1 Comment

3 Simple Ways To Improve Your Trading Strategy

The worst traders are those that have no system. A trader I knew would make $40K in a month, then give it all back the next month. He was one hell of a trader but he had no method. He would have transformed his fortunes if he had simply stopped trading when his equity was […]

Filed Under: Lists, Stocks, Strategies/ Systems Tagged With: stocks, trading systems

August 23, 2021 By Joe Marwood 3 Comments

How To Build Professional Trading Strategies That Actually Make Money

professional trading strategies

I became interested in quantitative trading after discovering Perry Kaufmann’s book Trading Systems and Methods. As a day trader, I struggled to control my emotions and needed a way to trade more intelligently. Kaufmann’s introductory book opened up my eyes to the prospect of turning my trading ideas into concrete rules. Rather than trading by […]

Filed Under: How to, Stocks, Strategies/ Systems Tagged With: stocks, strategies, trading systems

August 18, 2021 By Joe Marwood Leave a Comment

What Trading Strategies Are Working In 2021?

2021 has been a rollercoaster of a year so far. It was only in January that rioters stormed the US capitol and Donald Trump found himself banned from Facebook and Twitter. Joe Biden was inaugurated on the 20th then we had the whole Gamestop saga. Gamestop rallied from under $20 to over $450 and Robinhood […]

Filed Under: Stocks, Strategies/ Systems, Update Tagged With: stocks, trading systems

Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Decoding Markets

We build trading strategies that give you more profit with less stress.

joe marwood beach

Popular

backtesting a trading strategy

5 Things You Learn From Backtesting Trading Strategies

How To Invest With Intelligent Machines – Lessons From Garry Kasparov

Should You Trade This Earnings Pullback Strategy?

xgti stock chart

Analysis Of Reverse Stock Splits

The System Traders Feedback Loop – Don’t Get Stuck In The Back-Testing Spiral

trade example in the us ten year

Shorting The US Ten Year With ATR – A Simple System That Shows A Profitable Edge

Financial Disclaimer

Financial trading is risky and short-term trading is hard. You can lose money. Joe Marwood is not a registered investment advisor and nothing on this site is to be regarded as personalized investment advice. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Data errors and mistakes do occur. Please see the full disclaimer.

Footer

About The Author

Joe Marwood is an independent trader and investor specialising in financial market analysis and trading systems. He worked as a professional futures trader for a trading firm in London and has a passion for building mechanical trading strategies. He has been in the market since 2008 and working with Amibroker since 2011.

Joe Marwood Profile PIc

Recent Posts

  • Contagion In Crypto
  • Can You Predict Cryptocurrencies?
  • Do Sell-Side Analysts Know Better?
  • Using Fundamental Data To Improve Momentum Investing Strategies
  • 5 Economic Indicators That Matter To Investors
  • How To Make Money In REITs
  • Follow The Leader To Make Money In Stocks
  • Can You Make Money From Short Seller Reports?

Categories

Search

Topics

  • Amibroker
  • Investing Books
  • Mean Reversion
  • Stock Trading Strategies
  • Technical Analysis
  • Trend Following
  • Quant Trading

Privacy policy | Contact | Disclaimer | All Rights reserved. Decoding Markets.