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Do you remember last week when I tweeted from the FMA conference about the luncheon speaker who pointed out the fact that levered ETFs that regularly relever are good at mirroring the market on a daily basis, but in the long term are bad bets since they are short an embedded option on Gamma which m ... Read more

For those of you who don't know yet, Larry Connors is giving his last free online presentation on his Professional ETF Trading Course today at 4:30 pm EST. These introductory presentations tend to run about 45 minutes long and sometimes can be a great trading reference just in themselves. In ... Read more

Yesterday we discussed the fact that many successful professional traders and hedge fund managers scale into positions. Today in the second part of this four part series we'll look at the various scaling methods. Scaling-in with Two Pieces Scaling in with two pieces means you'll buy h ... Read more

This month TradingMarkets.com launched their ETF PowerRatings system. It's a spinoff of Stock PowerRatings, a popular rating tool designed to let traders see at a glance which stocks are likely to advance or decline within a set period of time. I've played around with the new ETF PowerRatings a ... Read more

Today (Wednesday October 14) the market is going to open significantly higher and create an extremely overbought short-term condition. Whether this overbought conditions run for a few hours or a few days it's going to eventually pullback and provide some excellent short-term buying opportunities a ... Read more

Recently there has been a good deal of discussion based upon how just simply using a moving average has outperformed buy and hold in the S&P. This was published recently by a newsletter writer in a book and then Fidelity did their own twist to the test adding a second moving average and findin ... Read more

As you may know, the primary strategy we use to trade ETFs is TPS. TPS stands for Time, Price and Scale-in and is the best performing strategy we’ve created (you can find an introduction to TPS is our new book High Probability ETF Trading .) One of the questions I’m often asked is &q ... Read more

Now that so many ETFs have come to the market you need to have the ability to identify which ones to focus on versus which ones to ignore. One of the many factors that go into this decision is the volume and liquidity of an ETF. Here are the rules I like to use. 1. The past month's (the past ... Read more

Yesterday we looked at the universe of 3x ETFs available to trade. Today and tomorrow, I'd like you to do some homework. As you know, I have been publishing research on the 2-period RSI since 2004. It touches many of our trading strategies and the research behind it was also published in ... Read more

Picking up where the previous day's close left off, stocks continued whipsawing between positive and negative territory throughout most of yesterday's session. By day's end, the bulls won the dizzying tug-of-war. The S&P 500 rose 0.7%, the Nasdaq Composite 0.5%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Av ... Read more