The Global Update

Dow Jones Industrial Average Index – January 2 to March 12, 2020 US markets have been on an accelerated decline due to Coronavirus fears since February 21, 2020. Now, with the COVID-19 virus situation being considered a global pandemic, the

S&P 500 Index – Daily Chart – April 15, 2019 to October 22, 2019 Take a look at the two days in the orange box. It might not look like much from a big picture perspective but both days–September 11

If you walked into a grocery store or a coffee shop in December of 2017, you likely overheard several people talking about numerous cryptocurrencies, sounding almost as if they were crypto-experts. Everyone seemed to have a crypto recommendation. It was

There are many metrics you can use to evaluate a trading system’s performance. Too many, perhaps. You may be wondering how an automated system’s drawdowns weigh-in against its annual ROI, or whether the MAR ratio might provide a clearer picture

In our previous two installments of our order flow series, we’ve covered the way order flow works and how to take advantage of the imbalances within the order flow process. In this installment, we’ll cover the other side of order

Nearly three decades ago, right before the advent of  24-hour online markets, digital finance, dancing baby videos, and fake news memes, commodity markets actually closed for the day. This meant that if you wanted to trade, you had to wait

In last week’s post, we covered the basic mechanics of an order book as viewed in a DOM. The only setback in following order flow from a DOM is that once the order has been filled, the numbers change and

Over the last few years or so, “order flow” has become something of a new buzzword in retail trading circles. It’s almost as if there’s an air of mystery surrounding the idea, a code that (once deciphered) might give one