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How to Trade the Start of the Year: Guide to Stress-Free Positioning

Most people are familiar with the term ORB (open range breakout). It was popularized by Toby Crabel’s book “Day Trading with Short Term Price Patterns and Opening Range Breakout”, as well as the The Logical Trader: Applying a Method to the Madness (Wiley Trading) by Mark Fisher. ORB uses the price range set at the […]

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Market Reaction to NFPs on 8th January 2016

Following on in the series of Market Dynamics the NFPs presented a great opportunity to take a closer look at what happens during important news events. I’ve learned my lesson by now: don’t trade during news events. And this is especially true of stop orders in these situations. Price will just hop straight through. When […]

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The London Breakout Strategy falls under the category of Open Range Breakout as developed by Toby Crabel.  In this article we’ll look at some results with regards to this strategy, as well different ways of trading it. Let’s start out with the notion of Open Range Breakout.  The key concept behind this strategy is that the range set at the start of the day sets a neutral zone for the rest of the day.  If price moves either side of this range it is a strong indication that price will wa…
London Breakout Strategy
This XLS accompanies my guest article on RectitudeMarket.com describing the performance of short option strategies on EURUSD. It includes the relevant formulas and data so that you can replicate the results or apply them to your own option strategies.
Short EURUSD Option Backtest Spreadsheet
EURUSD tick data for the period 27th March 2016 to 1st April 2016. Zip file contains CSV files for each day. The format of the CSV files are: Local Time, Server Time, Server Time Milliseconds, Bid, Ask. The time resolution is in seconds. This means that there can be multiple quotes per second.
Tick Data EURUSD, 20160327 - 20160401, Broker 1
I’ve been asked lots of questions as to how to determine the next moves in GBPUSD. There have been many arguments for a bottoming out at the current levels, as well as for a continuation given the strength of the downward move experienced post Brexit. In this article I’ll try to get a handle on possible outcomes, by looking at some fundamental indicators and see where they point to for sterling over the next couple of months. The longer term perspective will be more difficult to gau…
GBP, Brexit, and Fundamentals
EURUSD tick data for the period 10th April 2016 to 15th April 2016. Zip file contains CSV files for each day. The format of the CSV files are: Local Time, Server Time, Server Time Milliseconds, Bid, Ask. The time resolution is in seconds. This means that there can be multiple quotes per second.
Tick Data EURUSD, 20160410 - 20160415, Broker 1
Kelly applied to the SPY ETF
This XLS shows the calculations which were performed in the Kelly Criteria article. The data included are the SPY ETF historical prices as well as the backtest results from the London Breakout Strategy applied to the EURUSD. Here you can see how to calculate the optimal leverage on your favourite asset class or your favourite trading strategy.  Please read the article to see what the caveats are and what riding out a full Kelly might possibly lead to.
Kelly Criteria Spreadsheet
High Frequency trading has become both the poster-boy and the scapegoat over the last couple of years in trading circles. It’s been seen as a sure-fire way of making money, as well as a sneaky way the flash-boys tax all the other participants in the market. In this article I want to cover some of the basics of High-Frequency Trading, as well as how it applies to trading from your “Living Room.” An example of such trading from your own private realm is the following P&L chart showing profits i…
High-Frequency Trading from your Living Room
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EURUSD tick data for the period 13th March 2016 to 18th March 2016. Zip file contains CSV files for each day. The format of the CSV files are: Local Time, Server Time, Server Time Milliseconds, Bid, Ask. The time resolution is in seconds. This means that there can be multiple quotes per second.
Tick Data EURUSD, 20160313 - 20160318, Broker 1