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04/08/19 August and the week ahead

August 4, 2019 by The Stop Hunter Leave a Comment

I’m back from a short summer break and ready to get stuck in to August after a positive July’s trading results.

The month starts in a bit of a mess globally, with a US interest rate cut (maybe not as large as some wanted) by the FED, inversely impacted by Trumps enthusiasm for more China tariffs and US stocks at the tail end of an interesting earnings season. On top of this it’s looking like a hard Brexit is looking more lpossible and we’re still seeing continuing troubles in the Gulf. All makes for a fun start to the month!

FX longer term currency strength strategy: Bearish: #NZD #AUD, Weak Bearish: #GBP, Neutral #EUR, Weak Bullish #USD #CAD, Bullish #JPY #CHF.

Indices: Volatility strategy: All global majors in bearish territory currently with volatility levels increasing. Seasonality strategy: bearish #SMI $GER30, bullish #bovespa, $NSDQ100

Commodities: COT strategy: $OIL $COPPER $NATGAS bearish. $PLATINUM weak bearish. $SILVER weak bullish, $GOLD bullish. Softs: #Cocoa #Cotton #Coffee bearish. Seasonality: $GOLD #Wheat bullish, $COPPER #Palladium bearish.

I will be deploying some further proactive trade and portfolio management enhancements that will make trading look more active and slightly different to the last couple of months.

Regards
Stephen

The Million Dollar Question(s)

April 3, 2019 by The Stop Hunter Leave a Comment

Want to know what the million dollar question(s) are in Technical Analysis that may just aid your trading and investing?

Find out in my article written for the Mar’19 edition of the Society of Technical Analysts Market Technican journal.

Contact me or visit https://www.sta-uk.org/ for more info.

STA #TechnicalAnalysis

February – a busy month of lectures!

March 6, 2019 by The Stop Hunter Leave a Comment

February was a busy month of lecturing for me.

Highlights were two lectures given at KingsCollege London and QueenMary University London, organised by the Society of Technical Analysts. I was presenting on their Masters degree programmes on two of my favourite subjects – Trading and TechnicalAnalysis. Both were great interactive sessions and I hope the students enjoyed and learnt from them – good luck with the trading!

If you’d like to find out more about our work on financial markets, trading, technical analysis with Universities and Schools then please do get in touch at [email protected]

universities presenter lecturing STA education financialmarkets #trading #technicalanalysis

A systematic trading approach: 1 year, over 1000 trades, and nearly a 300% return…….

May 11, 2018 by The Stop Hunter 2 Comments

A systematic approach to trading

The FinTech arm of our business started in mid 2016, built on the foundations of many years of experience working for banks, brokers and trading houses. We take on many different assignments in this space: We design, test and build systematic trading systems and analytical tools. After initially coming up with an idea for a technical analysis based trading system, testing it on a couple of assets and getting amazing backtest results toward the end of 2016, we decided to do something a bit different and create an all encompassing systematic trading approach that we could trade for ourselves using our own money, and truly put our ideas to the test!

We decided from the outset, that once live, we’d run it for one whole year and then publish what we found. This article outlines our year of trading the system, the background to it, issues and problems we faced and most importantly, the end financial result (which is sort of given away in the title!)

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Technical Analysis (Part 25) – Putting it all together: Improving your results

November 16, 2017 by The Stop Hunter Leave a Comment

We’ve finally come to the last article in our 25 part technical analysis series. I hope you’ve enjoyed it and found it beneficial? In the previous article, we looked at applying technical analysis to Risk & Trade management. There is still though another great, not so obvious, use for technical analysis that we need to look at before wrapping up this series. Another part of the trading and investing jigsaw to piece together! I hope by now, you’re starting to see that technical analysis is not a one dimensional tool. Applying and using the basic inputs to your technical analysis in a simple quantitative/qualitative process, can go a long way to improving your results. [Read more…]