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Saturday, October 29, 2022

What is the Basis of Your Trading Decisions?

Some claim that the stock market development is a random walk; however, this is only the case when you have no tools to analyze the underlying currents of the happening.

We want to invite you to experience and forecast price moves from a new perspective, helping you to participate in up and down movements from any account, even from an IRA.

Read on and watch the movie…

What appears like a chaotic reaction often has an underlying structure to forecast the happening with a high likelihood. Our algorithms see the price development embedded in a Markov chain, where the next happening is correlated to the last occasion and is not totally independent.

What is coming next in the stock market?

The chart shows a two-year development of the NASDAQ 100 and the S&P 500. Since the beginning of the year, the technology-heavy NASDAQ 100 has been underperforming and dragging the indexes down.

What does that mean for your portfolio if you hold one?

The pressure is on:

  • There is a solid chance that the indexes will drop another 20% (see the red projection shade on the chart).
  • Big money managers already took a substantial hit; why should private investors be spared?

12-Months Development of the Largest Money Managers

The table above shows a substantial market capitalization deterioration over the last twelve months. A typical bear market reaction and your portfolio, so you hold one in the form of an IRA, 401(k), or other conditions, might not look much different, and we have not seen the bottom yet.

However, you can make a difference with instruments on hand that project a change in price direction.

BLK on the Daily NLT Top-Line Chart

Like in a seismic reading, pre-eruptions indicate a potential price movement and extrapolate the incident by what has happened before. In our model, the price needs to move out of containment to fulfill the forecasted move with a high likelihood. This way, we anticipate other market participants to trade along with our directional assumption and drive the price move to the forecasted target.

On the chart, we highlighted four potential price turning points. At each, our NLT Top Line indicators pointed the direction to either buy or sell when the formulated price threshold of buying> or selling< were fulfilled in the price movement of the next candle. This way, buy-stop or sell-stop orders are filled:

Situation-1: Buy > $629.65. The price movement of the next candle took out the price threshold, and a long trade was initiated to the second target dot on the chart, where it got, and the trade was closed. Then you had multiple re-entering opportunities after the candles with the cyan arrow and dot, or you could trail the stop with the red line and the lower side of the blue frame.

Situation-2 had an orange sell signal. This signal occurred as an early directional change signal and was followed up by an NLT PowerTower (red signal, Sell < $712.31) and led to a short trade until the second target dot was reached.

Situation-3: Sell < $643.31. The direction of the trade was confirmed by ticking below the set price threshold, and a short trade to the second target dot followed.

Situation-4: Buy > $578.34 was not accepted as a trade potential. The reason for this: V-Shape reversals occur only in 15% of the cases, and we are probability thinkers and only take high-probability setups. Hence we disregarded this first leg up.

Suppose you are trading from an IRA or Cash Account, where short-selling stock is not allowed by SEC regulations. In that case, you learn to participate in the downside price movement by a simple options strategy with the help of the NLT Delta Force Concept:

  • It specifies the stock options Delta you buy
  • The time to expiration to pick
  • And the maximum price to pay for the option

Our concept demystifies options trading and gives you a clear perspective of what to do, how, and when.

For day traders, we are working on an idea where we encourage them to trade less, not more, to reduce the failure rate.

We combine multiple indicators in the chart example of Friday, October 21, 2022.

The chart shows three validated trade indications that came to the pre-defined target.

  • Dots on the chart are targets
  • Red crossbars are the stops
  • Buy and Sell thresholds indicate opportunities

E-Mini S&P 500 Timeless Day Trading Chart

As a trader, you are handling probabilities and only want to risk your money when the odds are in your favor. So let us invite you to two ideas of how to address today’s markets:

  • As a day trader using NLT Timeless Charts with system-compliant reward/risk setups
  • As a swing trader or longer-term investor, learning how to operate during the earnings season

We have two publications ready for you, reply if you want to learn more, and we will be happy to share our findings.

contact@NeverLossTrading.com Subj.: Day Trading

contact@NeverLossTrading.com Subj.: Swing Trading

To succeed in trading, you best work with an experienced coach and learn much about trading. Our #1 competitive advantage is the support and customer service we offer. We work one-on-one with you to specify what we teach to your specific wants and needs; hence, if your knowledge base is not expanding rapidly, you are doing something wrong.

Ongoing education and mentoring are crucial to longevity in this business. Veteran traders have been through more ups and downs than you can imagine. So, experienced pros have probably experienced whatever you’re going through.

If you are ready to make a difference in your trading:

We are happy to share our experiences and help you build your trading business. Trading is not a typical career, and you best learn from those who are long-term in this business to cope with the rollercoaster of the financial markets. We are here to help and provide feedback on what you might be doing right or wrong.

Strive for improved trading results, and we will find out which of our systems suits you best.

The markets changed, and if you do not change your trading strategies with them, it can be a very costly undertaking.

We are happy to hear back from you,

Thomas Barmann (inventor and founder of NeverLossTrading)

www.NeverLossTrading.com

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Saturday, October 15, 2022

Stock Trading Doom

If you do not care about your money, nobody else will. We are in a bear market, ahead of a recession. Investment strategies that have worked for the last ten years will ruin our days. Learn which approach to take to keep your investments for the future current.

Most of your retirement money invested in the stock market, either in a margin account, IRA, or 401(k), is at stake. 

Why?

We are in a bear market, and thus far, we have to find the bottom!

Our simulator portrays the following scenarios for the S&P 500 Index, which we see as the most representative of the market. To get an idea of where we could land, we let our future projection study work out potential scenarios and put them on the chart for the years 2022 forward and 2023. The chart shows that if we come to recovery, we will remain below the highs of 2021; however, if we further drop, we could quickly end up at an SPX value of $1,980 or 58% of the 2021 highs. Hence, buy and hold was suitable for the past ten years but is not an appropriate strategy for today and the future. With this article, we want to help you to overthink your investment decisions and learn to let the chart tell when to buy or sell with the appropriate strategies so that you are not sacrificing your portfolio values.

Stock Market Development and Outlook based on SPX

Do you know the company BlackRock?

BlackRock is the leading investment house for institutional funds. Yes, those are similar to mutual funds you might hold in your 401(k) or IRA; however, what BlackRock offers is geared towards institutional investors like insurance, banks, etc. The BLK-share had a tremendous value gain after the last crisis in 2008: it went from $96 a share in 2008 to $943 in 2021. However, in anticipation of further stock market risks, the BLK share dropped from its highs to $550, where it is trading now: -42%. When you compare this to the projected SPX value of $2,460, you see why our projector study is foreseeing a further stress potential for the stock market and your holdings.

At this point, some readers might think that they can manage their portfolios better than the BlackRock fund managers. However, if you continue to buy and hold, you will take an extraordinary risk, and if the market drops another 20%, you need to produce a 100% return to catch up from where you started. Hence, it is time to overthink your way of trading/investing.

BLK Share Price Development Compared to SPX

The chart shows how BLK is catching up with the overall stock market development, and our projectors paint a likely negative future. In summary: Buy and hold is not an appropriate strategy for private investors for 2022 and 2023. It exposes you to too much risk, which will be hard to recover. All signs point towards a recession, and stock index values are typically a multiple of the earnings. The new earnings season just started, and the big banks in the last quarter made solid profits; however, they caution us by their outlook and foresee challenges as we advance.

Hence, what are your alternatives in trading or investing going forward?

  • Participating in shorter-term price moves at strong directional signals with stocks and their options
  • Trading Futures by their ability to go long and short on the spot as a day trader or swing trader in a 24h market
  • Using futures to hedge your actual portfolio if you insist on keeping holdings long-term
  • Go into cash as a 401(k) holder

Can you change your investment strategy by yourself, and how do you decide when to buy or sell?

If you are ready to experience and learn high-probability trade performance and strategies:

contact@NeverLossTrading.com Subj.: Demo

Our imperative is:

Let the chat tell when to buy or sell; hence, we jointly look at the chart example for BLK for where our NLT Top-Line chart indicated to buy or sell:

BLK, Daily NLT Top-Line Chart, 7/12 – 10/7, 2022

On the chart, we highlighted four potential price turning points. At each, our NLT Top Line indicators pointed the direction to either buy or sell when the formulated price threshold of buying> or selling< were fulfilled in the price movement of the next candle. This way, buy-stop or sell-stop orders are filled:

Situation-1: Buy > $629.65. The price movement of the next candle took out the price threshold, and a long trade was initiated to the second target dot on the chart, where it got, and the trade was closed. Then you had multiple re-entering opportunities after the candles with the cyan arrow and dot, or you could trail the stop with the red line and the lower side of the blue frame.

Situation-2 had an orange sell signal. This signal occurred as an early directional change signal and was followed up by an NLT PowerTower (red signal, Sell < $712.31) and led to a short trade until the second target dot was reached.

Situation-3: Sell < $643.31. The direction of the trade was confirmed by ticking below the set price threshold, and a short trade to the second target dot followed.

Situation-4: Buy > $578.34 was not accepted as a trade potential. The reason for this: V-Shape reversals occur only in 15% of the cases, and we are probability thinkers and only take high-probability setups. Hence we disregarded this first leg up.

Suppose you are trading from an IRA or Cash Account, where short-selling stock is not allowed by SEC regulations. In that case, you learn to participate in the downside price movement by a simple options strategy with the help of the NLT Delta Force Concept:

  • It specifies the stock options Delta you buy
  • The time to expiration to pick
  • And the maximum price to pay for the option

Our concept demystifies options trading and gives you a clear perspective of what to do, how, and when.

Our blog and YouTube channel hold many examples of systems and decision-making points, where we explain how we act with the help of our indicators and strategies.

Past performance cannot always be taken as indicative of future results; however, if you are ready to experience high probability trade performance and strategies:

contact@NeverLossTrading.com Subj.: Demo

What we share is:

  • Acting with a system probability > 65%
  • Mechanical rules for entry, exit, and stop
  • Trade at perfect moments only
  • Consider overall factors, patterns
  • Risk and reward in an acceptable balance
  • Risk-averse trading
  • Holding positions to target
  • Do not add to losers
  • Stick with a trading strategy. Follow a business plan – action plan and financial plan
  • Trade for meaningful price moves
  • Systematic trading
  • Having a mentor to learn from

To succeed in trading, you best work with an experienced coach and learn much about trading. Our #1 competitive advantage is the support and customer service we offer. We work one-on-one with you to specify what we teach to your specific wants and needs; hence, if your knowledge base is not expanding rapidly, you are doing something wrong.

Ongoing education and mentoring are crucial to longevity in this business. Veteran traders have been through more ups and downs than you can imagine. So, experienced pros have probably experienced it whatever you’re going through.

If you are ready to make a difference to your trading:

We are happy to share our experiences and help you build your trading business. Trading is not a typical career, and you best learn from those who are long-term in this business to cope with the rollercoaster of the financial markets. We are here to help and provide feedback on what you might be doing right or wrong.

Strive for improved trading results, and we will find out which of our systems suits you best.

The markets changed, and if you do not change your trading strategies with them, it can be a very costly undertaking.

We are happy to hear back from you,

Thomas Barmann (inventor and founder of NeverLossTrading)

www.NeverLossTrading.com

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Saturday, October 8, 2022

Free Trading Magazine and Research Findings

If trading were easy, nobody would ever go to work; but it is learnable. So we want to share needed knowledge in two dimensions today:

With this link, you can read and download Traders World Magazine #86, where you will find several articles explaining what is needed for the current markets: Starting page 104 forward, we will relate to what is required to Be a Consistent Trader.

Further on, right from our research desk:

High Probability Day Trading by Combining Price and Volume

We want to demonstrate in this publication how we combine price move signals and volume for high-probability trading decisions, considering signals in a series. The concept aims to find fewer trade situations with higher accuracy on a mechanical decision-making process with few side conditions and considerations.

Research findings:

  • Spotting and entering early into a price move had a higher probability of success than later entries (Early Price Move Signals)
  • Focusing on price-based decision-making allows to bring risk and reward more often into an acceptable relation than time-based decision-making points (Timeless)
  • Considering volume differentials helps to separate stronger from weaker price move setups (Volume)

Test Conditions

  • signals are accepted mechanically (time: ET)
  • no same-directional trades at 3-SPU levels
  • Purple Zone signals are included in the test. Not a validated opportunity yet
  • Each signal is taken individually but also considered as a signal in a series

Day Trading Summary: Applied Probability Thinking

  • Sequential signal distribution is, of the essence, for high accuracy. By focusing on the first and maximum second signal in a sequence, we had a high trading accuracy of 78% winners in the observed time frame
  • As a result of a drop in the probability, signals > #2 in a sequence will not be considered a trading opportunity
  • The rule to not enter the same directional trades at the level of 3-SPU is essential
  • Other signal combinations can be used for trading the NLT System; however, in this test, we look at PowerTowers and volume validated, Floating, T-Signals, and Trend Initiation signals

Between September 30 to October 6, 2022, we documented the instances for the four NLT system signals and rated their actual performance. In the test, there were multiple instances where NLT T-signals and Floating signals occurred at the same candle. However, when this happened, we counted only once under Floating (you will spot this on the chart example). As a result, this slightly underrates T-signals in their positive performance; however, the results also show that T-signals produced the only losing instances.

NLT Signal Distribution for the E-Mini S&P 500 Futures Contract

On average, we documented about five trading opportunities per day.

NLT Signal Performance

Here is the set of data acquired:

On the following day trading chart for the E-Mini S&P 500 Futures Contract, we highlighted the situations that led to accepting trades by our set conditions. In addition, the chart shows additional trading opportunities highlighted by our systems, which were neglected.

NLT Day Trading Chart for October 4, 2022, E-Mini S&P 500 Futures Contract

Past performance cannot always be taken as indicative of future results; however, if you are ready to experience high probability trade performance and strategies:

contact@NeverLossTrading.com Subj.: Demo

What we share is:

  • Acting with a system probability > 65%
  • Mechanical rules for entry, exit, stop
  • Trade at perfect moments only
  • Consider overall factors, patterns
  • Risk and reward in an acceptable balance
  • Risk-averse trading
  • Holding positions to target
  • Do not add to losers
  • Stick with a trading strategy. Follow a business plan – action plan and financial plan
  • Trade for meaningful price moves
  • Systematic trading
  • Having a mentor to learn from

To succeed in trading, you best work with an experienced coach and learn much about trading. Our #1 competitive advantage is the support and customer service we offer. We work one-on-one with you to specify what we teach to your specific wants and needs; hence, if your knowledge base is not expanding rapidly, you are doing something wrong.

Ongoing education and mentoring are crucial to longevity in this business. Veteran traders have been through more ups and downs than you can imagine. So, experienced pros have probably experienced it whatever you’re going through.

If you are ready to make a difference to your trading:

We are happy to share our experiences and help you build your trading business. Trading is not a typical career, and you best learn from those who are long-term in this business to cope with the rollercoaster of the financial markets. We are here to help and provide feedback on what you might be doing right or wrong.

Strive for improved trading results, and we will find out which of our systems suits you best.

Our blog and YouTube channel hold many examples of systems and decision-making points.

We are happy to hear back from you,

Thomas Barmann (inventor and founder of NeverLossTrading)

www.NeverLossTrading.com

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Saturday, October 1, 2022

High Probability Day Trading by Combining Price and Volume

Successful traders find a repetitive decision-making basis that makes them more often right than wrong in predicting directional price moves. So the question is: what is the basis of their decision-making?

We want to demonstrate in this publication how we combine price move signals and volume (actual exchange at critical price turning points) for high-probability trading decisions.

Let us share some of our research findings:

  • Spotting and entering early into a price move had a higher probability of success than later entries (Early Price Move Signals)
  • Focusing on price-based decision-making allows to bring risk and reward more often into an acceptable relation than time-based decision-making points (Timeless)
  • Considering volume differentials helps to separate stronger from weaker price move setups (Volume)

Let us now go a step deeper, starting with price-based decision-making:

Timeless

The usual decision-making basis for a day trader is price happenings on a time scale: 5-minutes, 10-minutes, 20-minutes. The issue with time-based decision-making is to bring risk and reward into a meaningful relationship with the system probability. To solve this issue, we developed the NLT Timeless Concept, where we accept that price as the result of a change in supply and demand to specify potential price move setups with clearly defined:

  • Entries (price threshold)
  • Exits (targets)
  • Stops (wrong assumption)

With our systems and strategies, we want to help you to higher accuracy by:

  • Only accepting a trade when the direction is confirmed
  • Exiting at a pre-defined target, prevening for the price to pull back and taking your profits away before you realize them
  • Choosing an adequate stop so you are not taken out of a trade by a too-tight stop and keeping reward and risk in a meaningful balance.

A Quick tip: buyers and sellers move the market; whoever has the upper hand moves the market in their direction.

This write-up focuses on day trading, while the concept also works for swing trading or longer-term investing.  

By the NLT Timeless Concept, we simplify life for you and let the  chart tell when to buy or sell, specifying all decision-making dimensions at once:

  • Entry Conditions: Execute buy-stop or sell-stop orders at pre-defined price thresholds at assumed probability
  • Exit Condition: When is the target reached
  • Stop Condition: When are you wrong and exit
  • Risk Management: Risk limiting  and risk-adjusted by considering the Relation of (Entry – Exit) / (Entry – Stop)

When day trading for pre-defined price moves, positions are kept open for a couple of bars/candles but permanently close the same day.

One of the NLT Timeless Concept clients said: “Now I am feeling comfortable, walking away from the trade without feeling the need for controlling it.”

Our research example combines three high probability systems: NLT Top-Line, NLT Trend Catching, and the NLT Timeless Price Turning Points. We then count the instances those signals appeared and led to a trade that worked to the set conditions or failed.

Volume

Filtering signal (predictable price move indication) from noise (random happening), we use a volume differential study and focus on four instances:

  • Cyan Volume: impulsive solid engagement in the exchange of assets compared to the prior happening
  • Blue Volume: strong engagement with a directional upside price move
  • Red Volume: intense exchange with a directional downside price move
  • Purple Volume: slightly higher volume engagement with a price move potential

The chart also shows gray and yellow highlighted volume, which we do not consider indicative of supporting a potential price move.

Early Price Move Signals

Let us take a simple chart so you can see an example of combining volume and price move indications:

NLT Price Move Indications September 30, 2022

On the chart, we highlighted three situations:

Situation-1: NLT Top-Line, Sell < $3,672.3. As long as this signal appears on candle #1 or #2 of an NLT sequence, volume support is not required, while all other signals come to a higher probability decision with the help of highlighted volume. We also tested the probability of this signal coming to the target when it appears later in an NLT sequence. The likelihood of coming to the pre-defined target dropped by 20%, which is significant.

Situation-2: NLT Trend Catching and Timeless Floating Up signal combination: Buy > $3,667.50 with blue volume support, and the trade came to target two bars after, and immediately after, the price reverted.

Situation-3: Buy > $3,665.30 and Floating Up, with volume support, and the trade came to target two candles after the entry.

Taking September 23 to 29, 2022, we documented the instances for the three NLT system signals and their actual performance:

NLT Signal Distibution

On average, we documented 16 trading opportunities per day. The day with the most signal was September 28, and here is the performance on the observed days:

NLT Signal Performance

Hence, four of our signals made it into the high probability range above 70% accuracy, which is what we focus on going forward. NLT PowerTowers at candle #3 will not be a signal we trade.

Here is the set of data acquired:

Past performance cannot always be taken as indicative of future results; however, if you are ready to experience high probability trade performance and strategies:

contact@NeverLossTrading.com Subj.: Demo

What we share is:

  • Acting with a system probability > 65%
  • Mechanical rules for entry, exit, stop
  • Trade at perfect moments only
  • Consider overall factors, patterns
  • Risk and reward in an acceptable balance
  • Risk-averse trading
  • Holding positions to target
  • Do not add to losers
  • Stick with a trading strategy. Follow a business plan – action plan and financial plan
  • Trade for meaningful price moves
  • Systematic trading
  • Having a mentor to learn from

To succeed in trading, you best work with an experienced coach and learn much about trading. Our #1 competitive advantage is the support and customer service we offer. We work one-on-one with you to specify what we teach to your specific wants and needs; hence, if your knowledge base is not expanding rapidly, you are doing something wrong.

Ongoing education and mentoring are crucial to longevity in this business. Veteran traders have been through more ups and downs than you can imagine. So, experienced pros have probably experienced it whatever you’re going through.

If you are ready to make a difference to your trading:

We are happy to share our experiences and help you build your trading business. Trading is not a typical career, and you best learn from those who are long-term in this business to cope with the rollercoaster of the financial markets. We are here to help and provide feedback on what you might be doing right or wrong.

Strive for improved trading results, and we will find out which of our systems suits you best.

Our blog and YouTube channel hold many examples of systems and decision-making points.

We are happy to hear back from you,

Thomas Barmann (inventor and founder of NeverLossTrading)

www.NeverLossTrading.com

Disclaimer, Terms and ConditionsPrivacy | Customer Support