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Posted on December 12, 2019 by Erik Calco

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Channels On Charts Need Log Scale

Posted on October 27, 2018 by Erik Calco

Log scale is an option you can turn on when doing most financial charting.  Your software may default to off, so you need to check this.  You should really have log scale on your trading and investing charts all the … Continue reading →

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SPX 2009 Channel Bottom Touched – First In 2018

Posted on October 27, 2018 by Erik Calco

On Friday, Oct 27th, 2008, SPX touched it’s 2009 channel bottom near 2630 for the first time since Feb 2016!  Predictably, it bounced over 60 points before coming back down.  First touches are nearly always bought hard.  Being a Friday, … Continue reading →

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Added Charting to Automated Trading System

Posted on January 18, 2017 by Erik Calco

This is a continuation of Developing an Automated Trading System.  Many of us use very robust charting software, including the popular thinkorswim platform, that does more than I plan to create in my system.  The requirement I ran into that … Continue reading →

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Created Backtesting of Signals and Algos

Posted on November 30, 2016 by Erik Calco

This is a continuation of Developing an Automated Trading System.  Began algorithms with simple strategies.  This tests a range of inputs for a strategy. For example, you can test a range of trailing stops from 1 to 15% with 0.5% … Continue reading →

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Developing an Automated Trading System

Posted on October 7, 2016 by Erik Calco

It has been my dream since I was a kid and I saw the Matthew Broderick movie War Games in a theater in 1983 to build an automated trading system using AI.   This year I have begun to live that … Continue reading →

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July 2016 Jobs Report Reveals US Economic Weakness

Posted on August 5, 2016 by Erik Calco

The dollar tanked and the the S&P 500 made a new all-time high when the headline news of the jobs report came out.  The probability an interest rate hike for December increased from 32.1% to 45.4% (calculated using 30-day Fed … Continue reading →

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Rosy labor report?

Posted on July 9, 2016 by Erik Calco

The jobs report this morning caused the S&P 500 to hit new highs of the year, a few points short of its all time high set in May 2015.  It is tempting to pretend like all is well, and just … Continue reading →

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Building a long-term position in gold via NUGT

Posted on July 6, 2016 by Erik Calco

I and others I know have found ourselves chasing gold.  We periodically get a nice position, take our profits, and then find ourselves missing out on the next big move because we cannot find good entry. This has been driving … Continue reading →

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US Commercial Real-Estate Storm Brewing?

Posted on June 20, 2016 by Erik Calco

One counter I hear to the possibility of a recession coming to the US before the end of the year is that real-estate is booming.  Is it?  It has for 6 years, but this year doesn’t look as rosy. In … Continue reading →

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