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

A few years back I got into a conversation with one of our clients who had just wrapped up a successful career in corporate law and was using his knowledge to start his own hedge fund. Starting a hedge fund is not easy. Beyond the fact that you need to have strategies that constantly create alp ... Read more

This morning I was planning on discussing the recent stock market behavior and looking at what the market has done as compared to other early stage bull markets. I'm going to wait a day though because I just read this nonsense that's making its way throughout Yahoo Finance and the internet...(I'll ... 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

We have found a handful of quantified strategies to trade leveraged exchange-traded funds, especially one particular strategy which has been correct over 92% of the time including using inverse leveraged ETFs. Each day in my Daily Battle Plan I look to identify the best non-leveraged ETF se ... Read more

This weekend I got a chance to read a wonderful new book Finding Alpha: The Search for Alpha When Risk and Return Break Down (Wiley Finance) by Eric Falkenstein The book looks at ways that alpha can be found and possibly more importantly the many ways that professionals fool themselves into ... 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

Last week we looked at how Leveraged and Inverse ETFs behave. If you missed this, you can find it on my research website www.ConnorsResearch.com Another piece of understanding how ETFs trade and what they mean to you is looking at the correlation of ETFs. If you are long multiple energy ETF ... Read more