Recent content by BE Trader

Ha, this is a strange question... I trade US stocks - let's put it this way

Jim Cramer gets a lot of attention - both positive and negative. Some people say that you should do the opposite of what he says and you would make money. I sticked with a simpler approach trust no-one but numbers. Below you can find the statistics for executing LONG positions for all the Mad...

I have been experimenting quite a bit with major ETFs recently and came across overnight behavior that has been somewhat consistent since 2016. It came from backtests for 3 ETFs that represent major indexes: $SPY, $QQQ, $DIA against the following setups: 📈 Up Yesterday → Long in the Morning...

Pre-market is an exiting time when you start looking at your screens to check what's going on. There is a lot of information to consume: news, reports, charts... you can continue the list. In this study I explore if price movement in pre-market can provide any indications of how the day is going...

There is an article back from 2018 that says that most gains for $SPY happen overnight stating that you could have done overnight hold since 1993 and be more profitable than running the same by marker hours. I thought why not to review this thesis in a bit more detailed way. I set a simple...

A trader eventually comes across the statistic that 90% of traders fail to make money when trading the stock market. This statistic deems that over time 80%, 10% break even and 10% make money consistently. The other day I have been talking to skeptics who mentioned “no matter what you do in...

100% Automated - manual would be too much for me.

Everyone wants a trading strategy that allows you you to make 1 trade per day but still can beat the market. Here are I explore how you could make one. I decided not to reinvent the wheel and just took highly popularized Gap & Go strategy. The gap & go strategy is looking for stocks gap up from...

If you actively trade, you probably spend your days and nights researching, staring at the past candle charts, and coming up with the strategies to apply in the coming days. Next day market opens, and now it’s time for mechanical work to monitor the market and react to the best of the human...

A lot of trades are watching Daily SMA 100 and treat that as a resistance level. I should say I do exactly the same... I always wanted to measure that quantitatively so that I can trade based on the signal more confidently. Below is an example of the bounce I'm talking about: To quantify SMA...

There is a popular stock recommendations service Montley Fool. You may have seen their articles in the news - they are all over the place. One of the lists they offer is called "Rule Breakers". Described as: I have been following those a while and always had an idea to turn that into a day...

Mad Money is an American finance television program hosted by Jim Cramer that began airing on CNBC on March 14, 2005. Its main focus is investment and speculation, particularly in public company stocks. I have backtested Jim Cramer's Mad Money buy recommendations since the beginning of 2021 to...

There is a famous saying "Winners keep winning" which means that stocks that do well tend to keep doing well... I have backtested the idea using the setup below for 2021. Each day I'm looking for stocks which belong to NASDAQ 100 have been up 3% or more on a prior day are up in the morning...

In the last two years, the momentum has shifted to active strategies. The reasons for the resurgence are many: The proliferation of zero-commission brokers: 0 fees is a new normal Seamless user experience: Facebook like experience is a must now Shrinking holding period: Covid accelerated...

Hi Everyone, I wanted to see if something like this would be interesting to the community over here. We are building a platform to automate trading. The idea is rather simple - One can combine technical analysis and news - Create an algo, a screener, backtetst against years of historical data...