What Is Window Dressing in Finance?Window dressing is a concept in finance that involves manipulating financial statements or investment portfolios to make them appear more attractive to investors during reporting periods. While we have no direct evidence that window...
The financial markets can feel pretty chaotic and random at times, but within all of the chaos, there is order, and there are anomalies in price action that can be traded profitably - Turnaround Tuesday is one such market anomaly. This article explains the 'Turnaround...
Introduction to BacktestingWhat is Backtesting in TradingBacktesting is an essential technique in the trading world and is useful no matter which financial markets you trade. It involves applying your trading rules, or your trading strategy, to past data using...
Global Stock Market Update - 25 June 2023Just in case you were starting to get excited about the positive moves in the S&P, the markets had a bit of a pullback last week which was felt across US, Canada, Australia and Hong Kong. Just in case you needed another...
Global Stock Market Update - 06 June 2023Welcome to this week's Enlightened Trader Newsletter. I didn't write an update last week because I was away for the long weekend with two other awesome families (we had a great time thanks for asking 😉) But I am back this week,...
Global Stock Market Update - 02 June 2023Welcome to this week's The Enlightened Trader newsletter. The markets have been following the same pattern as we discussed last week - weakness across the board other than the big end of the Nasdaq exchange. One interesting...
Global Stock Market Update - 26 May 2023Welcome to The Enlightened Trader newsletter. I missed last week as I was travelling, but to be brutally honest there was nothing much going on of interest in the markets anyway! Of the markets I monitor in this newsletter (US,...
Global Stock Market Update - 12 May 2023Welcome to this week’s Enlightened Trader Newsletter. We are still in a tightly ranging market this week - very little going on at the index level. The S&P500, ASX 200, TSX Composite, Hang Seng and Bitcoin are all still...
Master Trading Probabilities with the Expected Return Stock Calculator The expected return stock calculator helps you make trading decisions in the face of uncertainty. Traders face immense uncertainty because we just never know exactly what will happen to the stock...
Every trading calculator we have built is listed below. Pick the one that matches the question you are trying to answer, enter your numbers, and it will do the arithmetic for you. We are building more all the time, so if there is a calculator that would help your...