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Using the Slow Reeds Trailing Stop to Let Your Profits Run By, Mark Boucher

December 9, 2021 December 9, 2021 / 10 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

Dave was an electrical engineer who hated Corporate America, loved numbers, and was drawn to trading because of its freedom. Dave has a trading system that is a mean reversion system in S&P’s. He likes this system because he gets validated quickly with quick and frequent wins. His system is correct 60% of the time, and when he is right, he makes 1x his risk. This system has an expectancy of .20. Dave thinks that he would be set if he could just increase his win rate points by 10%. …

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Timely Analysis of Market Moving Events By, Mark Boucher and Chuck Whitman of REED$TRADER

November 12, 2020 November 12, 2020 / 7 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

This past week was full of major market-moving events: the election, Pfizer’s vaccine announcement, Payrolls, and FOMC. We thought it would be helpful to share our recent market environment context update from Mark Boucher after the close on Monday, November 9 to help you understand the current environment. We thought we might also share some high-quality stock opportunities that we see right now. Market Environment Context News of a 90% effective coronavirus vaccine sent markets into a massive rotation away from lockdown and work-at-home beneficiaries towards cyclical recovery plays …

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Same Trades, Different Views Improve Your Results with Positive Reversion by, Chuck Whitman of Reed$Trader

April 9, 2020 April 9, 2020 / 9 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

Rarely do I see any discussion in the trading community about the impact of reversion on the profitability of trades. Many new traders are completely unaware of this concept and its impact on their trading. Value, Price, and Reversion I spend a great deal of time educating my student traders about the major market participants: commercials, large speculators, small speculators and market makers. I want students to understand the different behaviors of different participants. Learning about these different behaviors often opens the eyes of my students helping …

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Is this A Catchable Rally or A Bear Trap? by, Chuck Whitman & Mark Boucher

March 31, 2020 March 31, 2020 / 6 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

Using market internals* has a great advantage in that they force you to focus on what investors are doing rather than on what they are saying. Our short-term trigger point of the 70% down-volume on February 21 came just two days after the all-time highs on the S&P. In the following days, our Bear Market signal happened in the midst of five distribution days. Since that first warning day, the stock market had eight 90% down-days and three 80% down-days over the next eighteen trading days for the largest …

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Mr. Timing vs. Mr. Selection, by Mark Boucher

November 14, 2019 November 22, 2019 / 9 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

A famous CDA/Wiesenberger study took an interesting approach to explaining two different market strategies by creating two fictitious characters – Mr. Timing and Mr. Selection. The research used data from 1940-1973 in its first edition and then continued on through the early 1990’s in a later edition. Mr. Timing was capable enough to perfectly call every market swing of 10% or more. Mr. Timing bought at the exact low tick of every bottom prior to a 10% or higher move up and exited at the exact high tick before every …

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