Fran S.
Trading Systems Analyst using robust statistical methods including Monte Carlo resampling. I've been trading my own account for the last 18 years and became a full-time trader in 2013. I hold a degree in Telecommunications Engineering by Univ. Autónoma de Madrid, and a Master in Business Administration and Marketing by Univ. de A Coruña. Skills: System Analysis, Money management, risk, and position sizing.
Wave Projection Forecasts Using Cynthia Kase’s Methods
It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.
Yogi Berra
Cynthia Kase and Forecasting
This is our second article in which we discuss Cynthia Kase’s excellent...
Let’s talk About MT4’s Momentum Indicator
There are several indicators that traders can use to maximize their profits. Today, in this lesson we will learn what the momentum indicator is,...
How Can Volatility be Used to Build a Trading Strategy
Statistics Overview
Statistics is the part of mathematics that deals with the accumulated information about a data collection. Usually, the collection characteristics cannot be described...
How to Profit from Momentum Indicator?
Buy or Sell That is the Question
Traders basically use two approaches to address the market action, even when trading with the primary trend.
The more...
The Six Kase Behavioral Laws of Forecasting
Cynthia Kase is a famous Commodities and Futures trader, president of the Kase & Company Inc. She wrote a couple of books on technical...
EURUSD Following the Path in its Descending Channel, Anyone Short?
The Setup
The EURUSD is moving in a descending channel whose limits has been respecting so far. The last leg down hit the 1.11366 floor and...
Explaining the Statistical Information of the MT4 Strategy Tester
The Trading Simulator
A good Trading Platform always includes a Trading Simulator that takes a trading system's rules and, applying them, calculates simulated paper-trades in...
Why the MAE and MFE Concepts Matter
Maximum Adverse Excursion
We are prepared to trade. We know our signals are profitable long term. The system delivers a long or short signal and...
How to Rob a Bank while Everybody is Watching?
On May 7th unknown attackers had penetrated into one of the most popular crypto-exchanges and stole 7,070.9 bitcoin from their hot wallet.
At that time,...
These two Structures are the Basic Components of Markets
Impulses and Pullbacks
Long-term Panoramic Classification
The market is a constant movement that reflects the changes in the supply and demand for assets by millions of...
Bicoin Travelling in its 5th wave inside a Third Wave.
Bitcoin is bullish. It has been for some time. In fact, December 2018 was the last bearish month for this hot asset. The 15th and...
Are Forex Exchanges Casinos in Disguise?
To bet or to trade that is the question?
Do you trade or really you are simply gambling? That is a good question. The fact...
Bollinger Bands as a Map for the Price Landscape
Bollinger Bands
The most advanced variety of bands whose width changes with volatility was developed by John Bollinger, who called them Bollinger Bands. We have...
The Donchian Breakout System - The Way of the Turtle
Donchian Breakout system
Richard Donchian was an Armenian-American commodities and futures trader, and pioneer in managed futures and systematic trading. He is the author of...
Envelopes using Moving Averages, How to Profit from Them?
Bands formed by moving averages
As we already saw in our previous article, we can create different types of bands that can be used in...
A Brief History of Bands and Envelopes
Bands and Envelopes
John Bollinger defines bands as moving lines built above and below a prescribed distance of a central region. It does not need...
The History of Bitcoin For Busy People
Bitcoin today is the head of a growing list of over 2000 digital coins and his price change affects every day the rest of...
USDCHF Pair Sharp as a Swiss Knife!
The Weekly Chart
The USDCHF weekly chart shows it has been moving inside a slightly upwards triangular formation. Usually, this kind of formation is a...
Everything you should know about Stochastics and the Williams Percent R
The Stochastics and the Williams Percent R Oscillators
Introduction
The function of the markets serves as a fair-price discoverer. The instantaneous price of an asset reflects...
Bitcoin Recovery from Bad News is Good News!
Our colleague Jennifer Mitchel, last Friday 26, had published an article commenting the volatility spike experienced by the BTCUSD pair on the news about...
What you should know about Statistics as a trader (and you...
Deterministic and Random Processes
Intuitively we can distinguish between a deterministic event and a random one. A Deterministic event is a process whose development we...
Market Classification or How to Know Which Market Type you’re In
Why do prices move?
Markets are in constant change. The price fluctuates hour after hour. Every minute a pattern of ups and downs is continually...
MetaTrader 4 Tips and Tricks Part II - Master MT4 like...
This is part two of the MetaTrader 4 guide and it will be dedicated mainly to chart setups
Shortcuts wrapup
On the previous document, we reviewed...
MetaTrader 4 Basics, Shortcuts, and Tricks Part I
Downloading, installing, basic concepts, and optimizing tips
Hello, traders, this is a small guide to help you get acquainted with MetaTrader 4. We will show,...
The Moving Average Convergence Divergence: MACD
Moving Average Convergence Divergence: MACD
The MACD is a superior derivation of moving average crossovers and was developed in 1979 by Gerald Appel as a...
EURJPY Chart Analysis
This cross has been the main topic of conversation on the trading networks, as many people are stuck in a short position drawdown created by some...
Position Size, Risk and Returns
Introducing the R concept
When trading on the Forex markets, we are living in a world of leveraged instruments. Therefore our potential to control asset...
Risk Management, Pip Risk, and Pip Profit
What do we mean by Risk Management?
Risk management is the part of the trading strategy that deals with how much risk are we willing...
Stock Indices and Index Exchange-Traded Funds
Stock Indices
The health of the stock market has always been thought to be a leading indicator of the economic cycle, the consensus saying that...
The Financial Markets - Stocks
Stocks
Stocks together with Bonds are Capital Markets, both provide financing to companies. The distribution of shares among thousands of participants provides the main financing capital for...
The World’s Financial Markets - A brief Introduction
A brief history of the Global Markets
Markets are the natural result of human activities and the economy. We have created them as a natural...
The Trading System Basics I
Automated versus discretionary
The Discretionary trader
People always get into the Forex market and start trading with no system at all. They approach the markets applying...
Directional Movement(DMI) and the Average Directional Movement Index(ADX)
Introduction
The widespread use of personal computers gave traders and investors the possibility to perform advanced computations to obtain knowledge out of the bare prices....
The trading industry
Trade and Money
Trade is with us since the early stages of the homo sapiens. Hunters about 25 thousand years ago traded their extra hunted...
