Remember, this blog is like a whiteboard – we are kind of brainstorming here…
I am beginning to play around with quantifying the predictability of patterns, such as the head and shoulders pattern. There is a lot of analysis, running of data and thinking that needs to be done, but I wanted to talk a [...]

Previously, I discussed the importance of feedback in understanding and learning and that is one nice aspect of blogs – getting feedback from readers. Michael wrote a nice entry about the last article over at Taylor Tree, a blog that discusses “the mechanics of system trading such as money management, position sizing, etc.” – [...]

It has been pointed out that in the article Oversimplified Method for Finding Patterns in Stock Charts the actual method used was not described in detail. The process is pretty simple – you might even say oversimplified. It was just an error of omission, not an attempt to hide any proprietary methods. [...]

Look, I don’t know anything about basketball (something about dribbling or something or other?) and the only March Madness that I am aware of is the snow we keep getting, even though it is spring already. I graduated from GMU back in 1993, so that makes good ol’ GMU my alma mater. So, [...]

I have been using StumbleUpon since late 2003. It is a wonderful tool that I can’t imagine being without these days. I have always gotten a couple of people visiting my sites from StumbleUpon everyday, but since last night I am getting a major stream of visitors from StumbleUpon. If there are [...]

I know – I am several years late to the Tag Cloud concept, but I figured I would try something out similar. For now (it may move it the future) we have a stock symbol cloud over on the right hand column of the blog. In standard cloud fashion, the font size gives [...]

There is an interesting thread over at Elite Trader forum discussing the possibility of automatically trading the news feed. Some people claim that they do have such systems in place or know of such systems. Well, that is all fine and good, but it is a difficult problem. Language understanding is one [...]

Last week we put together a really simple way to identify Head and Shoulders patterns in stock charts and we have a daily list of stocks with potential Head and Shoulders – BUT, these are experimental of course. This where the human interacts with the technology. We have an algorithm that searchs for [...]

If you are looking for discussions or need answers to questions about anything and everything trading – join the Elite Trader forum and plug into almost 50,000 members. Zoinks – that is a lot of money being lost! Just kidding, as I am sure many of the members are doing really well, but [...]

This is an old story, but there is the semi-urban legend that if you mention Chris Pirillo in a blog posting, he will come and post a comment on your blog. This was known as the Chris Pirillo Effect, but the effectiveness of the CPE seems to have degraded over the last year. [...]