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Trading Strategy Review: HOLY GRAIL SETUP
The “Holy Grail” setup was designed by Linda Bradford Raschke, a famous trader featured in Jack Schwager’s book, The New Market Wizards. The strategy is designed to catch corrections in markets that have shown evidence of increased momentum, with the average directional movement index … Continue reading
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Capturing Trend Days
Trend days occur when there is an expansion in the daily trading range and the open and close are near opposite extremes. The first half-hour of trading often comprises less than 10% of the day’s total range; there is usually … Continue reading
A Quantile Approach to Money Flow
If “volume precedes price” as is often suggested then it should be possible to apply analytical techniques to certain volume attributes that will have some predictive capabilities with regard to future price development. Using various techniques that come under the … Continue reading
Volatility Breakout Systems
By Linda Bradford Raschke Breakout systems can actually be considered another form of swing trading, (which is a style of short term trading designed to capture the next immediate move). In other words, the trader is not concerned with any … Continue reading
Swing Trading Rules and Philosophy
Linda Bradford Raschke My style is based on the “Taylor Trading Technique”, a short-term method for trading daily price movements that relies entirely on odds and percentages . It is a method as opposed to a system. Very few people … Continue reading
Tape Reading
By Linda Bradford Raschke Sometimes it is nice to reexamine a simple concept when there appears to be overwhelming volatility in the markets. Mechanical systems and patterns are helpful and even necessary for the structure they impose in organizing data, … Continue reading
Trend Setter Strategy
“Rather than maniacally trading volatile pairs multiple times in a single day, rule-based discretionary traders are now holding onto open positions longer, relying more on planning and patience rather than fast reflexes.” Rule-based discretionary traders are among the best traders … Continue reading
Trend Analysis using Open Interest and Volume
Open Interest (also known as Open Contracts or Open Commitments) refers to the number of active or open contracts for any given security. It applies to the futures and options markets but not to stocks. In the futures market it … Continue reading
Seasonality in Markets
Two of my favorite trading subjects are cycles and seasonality. In this feature, I’ll discuss seasonality in agricultural markets. I want to start out by emphasizing that seasonality or cycles, by themselves, do not make good trading systems. However, they … Continue reading
Swing Trading Making Money in a Sideways Market
“The Trend is Your Friend” is a tried and true market adage that is indeed one of the most valuable futures trading tenets. However, history shows that most markets tend to move in a non-trending, or “sideways” fashion more of … Continue reading
