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December 2019 System Quality Number® Report By, Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.

January 6, 2020 / 5 minutes of reading / 1 Comment

  There are numerous ETFs that track everything from countries, commodities, currencies and stock market indices to individual market sectors. ETFs provide a wonderfully easy way to discover what’s happening in the world markets. I apply a version of my System Quality Number® (SQN®) score to measure the relative performance of numerous markets in a world model. The Market SQN score uses the daily percent change for input over a 100-day period. Typically, a Market SQN score over 1.47 is strongly bullish and a score below -0.7 is very weak. …

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December 2019 Market Update – Bull Quiet Market Type By, Van K. Tharp, PhD

January 6, 2020 / 7 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

  I always say that people do not trade the markets; they trade their beliefs about the markets. In that same way, I’d like to point out that these updates reflect my own beliefs. I find the market update information useful for my trading, so I do the work each month and am happy to share that information with my readers. If your beliefs are not similar to mine however, this information may not be useful to you. Therefore, if you’re inclined to conduct some sort of intellectual exercise in …

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A Trader’s Ode to Joy By, D.R. Barton , Jr.

December 23, 2019 / 7 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

“When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, and happiness… all good things.” —Maya Angelou, American poet Earlier this week I walked into my publisher’s office (that I visit at least once a month). There were many familiar faces – most hunkered down, doing work. Then, a delightful, smiling face popped up from behind some monitors and the young editor said to me, “I have something for you!”. She hurried over to my borrowed desk and held out a dreidel. For those who may not know, the …

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A Case Study on Coaching and Trading Improvement By, Ken Long

December 23, 2019 / 2 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

  Here are 3 snapshots of a “1-page monthly performance summary” from a trader learning day trading and hybrid swing trading systems. He has been trading now for three months after taking a home study course from VTI. One of the ways to sharpen your most important tool (your mind) and to improve your practice is to act as a coach and think about what it means to give feedback to others about their performance. Think of these 3 charts from 2 perspectives: (1) If you were the trader who …

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Update on Cryptoassets as of December 15th, 2019 By Van K. Tharp, PhD

December 19, 2019 / 9 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

Market Summary Cryptoassets started 2019 with three flat months followed by a strong uptrend until the end of June when the Bloomberg Galaxy Crypto Index (BGCI) peaked. The peak in the index this year was on June 26th at 668.61. You can see the clear decline since the Peak in June. Last month the index was at 366.20 and now it’s at 280.27 – down 23%. The following table below tracks the price of five major cryptoassets across three generations of the technology now along with Bloomberg’s index: Bitcoin, a …

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Six Key Factors to a Great Trading System By Van K. Tharp, PhD

December 18, 2019 / 4 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

Most people, as they learn about trading, are exposed to a lot of misinformation. It’s almost as if there is an intelligence agency putting out information to make sure that the average person can’t get ahead in trading. In short, there are six major factors that are the keys to your success trading well. These six factors include: Factor 1: Reliability, meaning “what percentage of the time do you make money?” is the first key factor. Most people emphasize this. They want to be right on every trade because they …

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The Little-Known Part of the Trade War That Has Cost Taxpayers 2.7x More than The Auto Bailout By D. R. Barton, Jr.

December 19, 2019 / 7 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

  Despite all the possible distractions from Hong Kong protests, votes impacting Brexit, and Aramco’s world-leading IPO, the mainstream business news is laser-focused on the trade dispute with China. President Trump’s fight with China’s President Xi Jinping continues to dominate headlines. Even the string of all-time market highs in recent two weeks had a tough time getting any press. The pundits quickly got back to talking about tariffs and trade negotiations, as if nothing else mattered. But there’s a directly related and very important story developing right under our noses, …

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Crypto Update – Heavy Altcoin Selling Today By Gabriel Grammatidis

December 18, 2019 / 1 minute of reading / Leave a Comment

After today’s strong sell-off in the Altcoins I am expecting to see new lows (Weekly chart) in the coming weeks. The Altcoins already lagging BTC quite a bit, new lows will trigger a panic with the Crypto-perma-bulls who should then become desperate throwing the towel. This is the moment when the weak hands change with the strong ones. As long as BTC remains above the 3200 level (the last major low) my bullish case for BTC >100,000 is still valid. Watch Gabriel’s video below:

What Differentiates Geniuses From Normal People? By G.

January 23, 2020 / 6 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

Editor’s Note: G. (who requested anonymity) is a client with an engineering background who has been working on developing trading systems for the last several years. Over the next few weeks, we will feature his articles which take a deeper look into Van’s concepts including trading genius, abundance and belief systems. This is article 1 of 3. In June of 2019, I took Van’s new webinar on ‘Trading Genius’. After a few days of reflecting on the energizing material covered in the webinar, I found myself asking the question: What …

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My 2019 Trips By Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.

December 9, 2019 / 15 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

I started traveling this fall on September 16 and the travel didn’t end until November 9th. And during that period I was in Honolulu (six hours behind Cary NC) and in Paris (six hours before Cary NC). I’m 73 years old and changing time zones isn’t that easy anymore. But at the same time, I love it. But why am I telling you about my travels? The answer is simple: I want you to know a little bit more about Van Tharp and how he thinks. I’ve been told through …

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