No Brainer Trades

• 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 -
• Prevail Versus Fail: Sophistication and Preparation

  

  Many traders I come across have a very loosely defined notion of what they intend to do every day: identify some support and resistance, see how price is trending, check the news, run some indicators, check book value, PE Ratios, etc. There is a lack…
  - 27 Sep 18, 4:33pm -
• What I’m Using to Trade with These Days, and Why

  

  A lot has changed over the years with this site, and along with it, me. I see other people out there with an unwavering system of beliefs, sticking to (what I view as) an archaic way of looking at things and unflinching to change. I'm not sure why th…
  - 3 Apr 18, 5:14pm -