I have previously written one article about the possibility of making money in daytrading: Is It Possible To Make Money Day Trading? My numbers July 2012 – July 2013 Is It Possible to Make Money Day Trading? Can you make money day trading? (My numbers) Is It Possible To Make Money Day Trading? Part 2:…
Consumer Stocks XLP Day Trading Strategy This was a long headline, which probably won’t catch many readers. Anyway, the trading strategy has proven to perform well in the past but in the last years up to 2021, it has been rather flat. In trading, boring is good. The strategy is tested on the ETF with…
My experience is that the most boring stocks are the best for day trading. Many day traders are thrill-seekers, which is too bad because I think the best stocks are the most boring. This is a little bit like low volatility factor investing: over many decades the best stocks have proven to be the “boring”…
I had a look at my performance on one of the new strategies I’ve implemented over the summer and fall. Here are the previous first two posts I wrote: Part 1 Part 2 I started trading this strategy live in July with the lowest minimum size I can possibly trade. Now I’m about to put…
This article presents a last-hour trading strategy. This is in practice a momentum strategy. Here is the hypothesis: if SPY rallies from the open until the last hour, can we make money by going long one hour before the close and exiting on the close? This is a “last hour” trading strategy: The momentum day…
In day trading, what are the returns in the first hour, middle of the day, and in the last hour? I have lately broken down the trading day into performance during the first hour, the middle of the day, and the last hour. Previously I have written two articles about when SPY establishes the high…
I have previously written two articles about when SPY sets high and low during the day: Which Trading Hour Is The Best? When Should You Buy And Sell During The Day? At what time of day sets SPY high and low? Intraday high and low in SPY by weekday I’m trying to find something tradeable…
In a previous article, I wrote about when SPY sets a high/low. But is there any difference separated by weekday? Here is the number from January 2010 until the 1st of August 2012: #Number High Low High Low of days First hour First hour Last hour Last hour Monday 119 44 43 29…
Mean reversion strategies work well in the stock market. One of the best indicators for such strategies is the Internal Bar Strength Indicator (IBS): (HIGH-CLOSE)/(HIGH-LOW) This simple formula increases the odds a lot, in my experience, for mean-revertive assets like stocks and stock indices. Here is an example: Enter at close if the above formula is…
Three german researchers have written a study called Is Poker a Game of Skill or Chance? A Quasi-Experimental Study. I was made aware of this article in Peter Warrens’s blog (only in Norwegian). I totally agree with the content. Most traders have too much confidence and have too much ego. Overconfidence is a trader’s worst…
