Recent content by DaveLandry

I haven't been using the micro patterns as much in more recent times. I have some free webcasts that cover my newer patterns. You can email me at dave at davelandry.com and I'll send you the links (not sure if I can post them here because they might be considered "commercial" links). Dave

Thanks for credit on that one. I'm sure I'm not the first to say that surprises generally happen in the direction of the trend. Regarding longer-term time frames, I have become more longer-term oriented in more recent years. Maybe its a mauturity thing (which my wife will argue) and I'm...

shoot me an email at dave@davelandry.com and I'll give you enough free stuff to keep you busy for a long while. Dave

Email me and I will be happy to discuss this further. Also, Trading Markets often has a sale around Labor Day. Dave

I offer a money back guarantee on my materials. I answer all emails for anyone needing assistance. If you followed everything I said to do in my (free at Yahoo! Finance) column this year (and longer-term) you would be up nicely. So how is that “fleecing”? Dave Landry

Dennis, I actually use much looser scans (the ones that require high adx). Email me at dave@davelandry.com and I'll be happy to give them to you. Dave

Hello Eric, I do trade stocks that are beginning to stretch away. I like the acceleration in momentum. In fact, I have a strategy that essentially looks for a longer-term more gradual uptrend THEN an acceleration of that uptrend. You then look to enter on the first pullback/TKO. Shoot me an...

Yes, I don't get very fancy though. I take a lot of notes in a notebook. I record the trade, my thinking at the time, the market action/sector action....occasionally some personal things like any distractions that may be going on in my life. Although I haven't used it very much, TCNet has a...

ITZ, you bring up an interesting point. I would imagine that enough stocks are open to give a representative sample so that the calculation of the (opening) VIX would be fairly accurate (based on the sample). I don't pay much attention to the intra-day action, but again, your point is valid...

No, unless a stock is below a threshold for minimum average volume (i.e. thin), I won't turn down a trade because of volume. Richard Arms believes that stocks have an "ease of movement". If a stock goes down on light volume, conventional wisdom would say that this doesn't mean anything. The...

I'm essentially looking for some setup that I follow to occur after a persistent trend. It seems that the TKOs are a good pattern for this. If you don't have the rules, you can email me and I can put together some slides. In regards to volume, I'm a price purist. I can take either side of the...

I'm assuming you're referring to the persistency concept. You look to enter AFTER the correction--e.g. some sort of knockout move (TKO) or a plain vanilla pullback. Yes, of course, sometime the trends ends...but a lot of stocks can double off a persistent move. Study the homebuilders...

A few years ago, someone told me that they were doing well trading BowTies on E-minis on intra-day charts. I don't have this person's contact info though (would love to follow up!). I would imagine if you did use something like bowties, you would probably have to use some sort of daily...

Thank you shoeshineboy. Now that you've cleared the way for ideas, one idea that I've been working with for quite a while is "persistency"--the ability of a stock to follow through from one day to the next. This can be quantified with linear regression. However, many of you know that I like...

let's say you are long a stock at 40 and your initial goal is 42. You come in on a day like today (07/24/2003) and your stock is rallying.....it rallies up to 41.95....not quite your profit target but close...then you see the S&P (and other indices) start to peter out........and the sector of...