No Brainer Trades

• Conformity.

  

  It was my 10th grade English teacher who introduced me to a slew of famous social experiments, most of which are centric on obedience, authority, and conformity. Stanley Milgrim, Asch, the Stanford Prison Experiment, etc., are all extremely well-know…
  - 13 Sep 21, 7:01pm -
• Taking Another Look at Price Action

  

  While  it's obvious I have lost most of the blogging bug over time, I still enjoy getting things up here every rare once and a while. And while there are innumerable topics to discuss in this business, the more compelling ones tend to stem from a br…
  - 25 Aug 21, 12:10am -
• Virus Headline Impacts on Liquidity, Volatility and Locations

  

  I rarely do any kind of recent market commentary these days because I would never be able to keep up with it. I've been in this business for a good amount of time now. I was active during the last recession and I'll be blunt: that is the last time I…
  - 28 Feb 20, 11:43pm -
• A Few Books Relating to Execution

  

  I feel as though I can never take in enough when it comes to execution. Had I known years ago what I know now, I would have made this a much higher priority in my early days. There is a bit of a problem with this, however, as most of what we know now…
  - 14 Feb 20, 6:53pm -
• Day Opening Types as a Precursor

  

  I have a ton of posts on my backburner here and just wanted to do some spring winter cleaning and push some of them out. As many of you know by now I'm a user of volume-based profile, which stems from the original works of market profile (which uses…
  - 3 Feb 20, 7:46pm -
• 100% Free Squawk Through FinancialJuice.com

  

  I have known the founder of FinancialJuice.com for many years now and just a couple months ago, he contacted me seeking feedback for a squawk service he launched a while back. Even with people have known for a long time (you too, FJ 🙂 ), I evaluat…
  - 30 Jan 20, 7:52pm -
• Up and Down the Profile

  

  I haven't been nearly as active on this blog as I would like to be in the past few years, and so please consider this post more a framework so some of you can better understand my own interpretations of volume profile, as I receive a decent number of…
  - 3 Apr 19, 8:22pm -
• The Trader’s Guide to Mythological Constructs

  

  Like anything else, trading has its fair share of fads. They come and (generally) have a much harder time disappearing vs. something like fanny packs. People are drawn to novelties and things perceived as “easy”. Whether it be a new diet, kitchen…
  - 19 Mar 19, 8:19pm -
• Determining Broad Volatility / Environment Using Previously Executed Volume

  

  The post Determining Broad Volatility / Environment Using Previously Executed Volume appeared first on ParaCurve.
  - 30 Oct 18, 6:37pm -
• Volumes in FX: Useful or Useless? Putting a Bad Debate to Rest.

  

  There is a neverending debate that goes on in regards to transparency in FX, or more precisely, the “fact” volumes are nearly useless because: the market is decentralized, and because of this, volumes are only coming from one broker or, the only…
  - 24 Oct 18, 4:54pm -