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. Hey Ken, FWIW, I'm still trying to trade stocks that have formed dips in multi-month uptrends, though there sure aren't many of them these days. My favorites right now are EXC, WRB and AIZ. Feels like they're fighting strong headwinds though & it will be tough to keep trending upwards...

Some excellent points here. The author of the book doesn't show much backtesting of different input numbers/periods/variables and therefore doesn't give us a good sense of robustness. I would also add that a lot of the tests (though not all) were performed over periods of time when there was a...

A common refrain of traders is that profitable strategies are hard to find. I have read a lot of trading-related books, over 300 of them I think, and the most recent one has challenged that assertion and really surprised me. The book is called "Simple techniques that beat the market: a...

Come on fellas, let's be better than this... Schadenfreude - Schadenfreude is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, or humiliation of another.

. Hi mute9003, Looks like you got some nice replies. Like others have mentioned, have had best success by avoiding going against the trend. I focus on the medium-term trend by looking at the slope of an EMA with period somewhere in the 40 - 80 range (depending on time frame and security). In...

I teach college science classes and one of my students recommended this one:

. Hey deaddog, It looks like prices dropped a fair ways below the 10 SMA today, though they closed above it. If you don't mind my asking, does this mean your rules require that prices close below the moving average in order to generate an exit signal?

A business news commentator said yesterday that 80% of recent earnings reports have beaten expectations... not sure how to factor that into the pros and cons.

. Agree with this... my understanding from reading and my own experience is that it is easier to stay with an intermittent fasting regimen than it is to maintain a calorie-restricted diet for a long period of time.

Same. Medium-term trend was down and momentum hit extreme high on Wednesday.

. CF came up in my scans too. Ended up placing stop entry orders for PGR, BHP, VIV and GLNCY. Hope their ~ linear uptrends continue/resume... Good luck with the live trading and the new thread.

Quotes from the lead investigator in the studies: "We are very excited by the results," Sekhar said. "After taking GlyNAC for 24 weeks, all these defects in older adults improved and some reversed to the levels found in young adults." The researchers also determined that older adults tolerated...

Have been reading about recent studies out of the Baylor College of Medicine on GlyNAC. One study done with elderly humans saw that supplementing with master antioxidant glutathione precursors glycine and N-acetylcysteine led to increased levels of the antioxidant and many measureable benefits...

. Hey KGTrader, I was looking in my browser's bookmarks and saw that I had saved a How-To video and a tutorial thread at the usethinkscript.com website. In case they might be useful, video and website links are below...

. Have used FinViz, Barchart and ThinkOrSwim scanners... ThinkOrSwim was best because it allowed me to combine stock moving averages and indicators as well as homemade indicators. So, for example TOS allowed searching for stocks that have appropriate price and volume and have been in a strong...

. I tried it with Google's search engine using the somewhat rare three-letter word vig as an example. Input was elitetrader.com AND vig to force them both to be present. It initially asked me if I meant big instead of vig and I clicked on "search only for elitetrader.com AND vig" and got lots...

. Hey Easymon, Regarding Person's book, it has a higher-than-unexpected number of mistakes in the text and the figures, but not so much that I couldn't understand his explanations. It's a long and extremely detailed book with lots of charts and I enjoyed reading it. Regarding trailing stops...

. Recently finished the 2nd edition (2020) of "Candlestick and Pivot Point Trading Triggers" by John Person and currently reading 3rd edition (2021) of "Day Trading the Dow Mini" by Brad Stych. Wasn’t convinced to adopt their strategies, but have enjoyed reading about them and about the...

. Hey emulimu, I wrote this script and plotted it in Thinkorswim and it looks very close to what you've described. Hope it works for you. ---- # PriceChange_Histogram declare lower; plot PriceChange = close - close[1]; PriceChange.SetPaintingStrategy(PaintingStrategy.HISTOGRAM)...

. Hey Tom, Just for clarification - does when the first trade makes break-even mean that the distance price has moved forward is the same as the distance from the entry back to the stop-loss price? or does it mean when price has moved forward a certain amount not specified and the stop-loss...