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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

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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

July 20, 2021 By Decoding Markets 5 Comments

Growth Trend Timing With US Stocks

I’m always on the lookout for interesting ways to time the market. Using a market timing model can help to avoid painful bear markets and indicate when is a good time to buy stocks.  Recently, I was looking at some of the strategies on Allocate Smartly and came across one called Growth Trend Timing.  Growth […]

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

July 7, 2021 By Decoding Markets 9 Comments

4 Momentum Strategies Put To The Test

Momentum investing is a successful method practiced by many investors around the world. In the past, authors have mainly focused on price momentum with a lookback period of around 12 months.  More recently, authors have been including fundamental factors into their analysis. Factors such as earnings, revenue and profit margins. For example, this paper called […]

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

June 27, 2021 By Decoding Markets Leave a Comment

3 Simple Things To Improve Your Trading

The best traders follow consistent strategies. Many use the same signals repeatedly to show them when to enter and exit a trade.  In other words, they place orders on a trading system that they have developed through trial-and-error.  In my experience, this is true for all traders. Many old school traders are not even aware […]

Filed Under: Lists, Stocks, Technical Analysis, Trading Tagged With: list, technical analysis

June 21, 2021 By Decoding Markets 1 Comment

Is This The Greatest Bubble Of All Time?

There’s been a lot of talk lately as to whether the stock market in 2021 is in a bubble. If you look at Google Trends data you can see that search traffic for the term ‘stock market bubble’ hit an all-time high in January of this year: Search data may have deflated since that January […]

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

June 15, 2021 By Decoding Markets Leave a Comment

How To Trade A Price Rejection Trading Strategy

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A price rejection trading strategy aims to identify levels at which a price trend – either upward or downwards – will reverse as a result of the market’s reluctance to move above or below that level. Price rejection strategies work for both long and short positions depending on the previous directional pattern. For uptrends, a […]

Filed Under: Intraday, Stocks, Technical Analysis Tagged With: stocks, technical analysis

May 24, 2021 By Joe Marwood 9 Comments

How To Build A Trend Following Trading Strategy

What Is Trend Following? If you look at a selection of charts, it becomes obvious that prices tend to move in particular directions – either up or down – for extended periods of time. Often, there’s no obvious reason why this is occurring but it is. These are trends, and successful traders generate significant profits […]

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May 11, 2021 By Joe Marwood 5 Comments

Easy Amibroker Tutorial – Learn Amibroker In Under An Hour

In this article the aim is to learn Amibroker in under a hour. This is not a complete Amibroker tutorial but it covers all the features I find most important for trading. If you want to learn how to use Amibroker then this is for you. If you’ve never head of it, Amibroker is a […]

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April 20, 2021 By Joe Marwood 25 Comments

How To Build A Mean Reversion Trading Strategy Ultimate Guide

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This post contains a detailed guide for creating a mean reversion trading strategy. You will learn what mean reversion is, how to trade it, 10 steps for building a system and a complete example of a mean reversion system for US stocks. Introduction To Mean Reversion A mean reversion trading strategy involves betting that prices […]

Filed Under: How to, Mean Reversion, Strategies/ Systems, Top Posts Tagged With: amibroker, trading systems

April 19, 2021 By Joe Marwood 6 Comments

How Trading Put Me In Hospital

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I’ve always liked a bet. After school I would go to the bookmakers to place bets on the football. I used to place accumulators that give you the chance to win big sums. When I was at University I got heavily into poker. Heads-up was my game. It was fast paced and I became quite […]

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April 10, 2021 By Joe Marwood 21 Comments

Which Trailing Stop Is The Best?

A trailing stop is a stop loss order that moves with the stock price. As the stock price rises, the stop moves higher too, locking in profit and reducing the risk of a loss. For example, suppose you buy Apple at $100 and enter a $20 trailing stop. When Apple moves to $120, your stop […]

Filed Under: Stocks, Strategies/ Systems, Technical Analysis, Top Posts Tagged With: stocks, strategies

April 7, 2021 By Joe Marwood 2 Comments

Semrush Looks Like A Winner

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Semrush (SEMR) is a SaaS business directed at online marketers which IPO’d on March 25th 2021. The company boasts annual recurring revenues of $144 million with 76% gross margins and a 50% revenue growth rate measured between December 2016 to December 2020.  The Semrush IPO was not particularly well received as underwriters hoped for a […]

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

March 22, 2021 By Joe Marwood Leave a Comment

Do Growth Stocks Make More Money?

I came across the following statement on social media that is attributed to the British economist John Kay: It’s a myth that profits are higher in fast growing industries.  – John Kay This is quite an interesting comment. The past decade or so has seen a shift from value stocks into growth. I would argue […]

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

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