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Find out about Trading Strategies, Technical Indicators and the skills you need to get More Winning Trades.

Trading Strategies Backtest Models
Trade the QQQ and TQQQ

Trading Strategies

How to Trade the QQQ and TQQQ in 2023
January 20, 2023

Last Updated on January 31, 2023 by Mark Ursell Do you want to trade the QQQ and TQQQ in 2023? These are two of the most popular ETFs for traders. [...]

Trading Information

Boost Your Trading Results With New Highs/New Lows
October 12, 2022

Last Updated on January 26, 2023 by Mark Ursell The New Highs/New Lows Indicator lets you glimpse underneath the market’s surface. Use it to find trading opportunities and spot changes [...]

Trading Strategies

How to Trade Triple Witching
April 8, 2021

Last Updated on January 26, 2023 by Mark Ursell This article shows the best way to trade Triple Witching. Learn how to avoid the dangers and maximize the opportunities around [...]

Excel Stockhistory Article

Excel Trading

Excel STOCKHISTORY Function – Ultimate Traders Guide
February 23, 2021

Last Updated on January 26, 2023 by Mark Ursell Traders and investors are now able to use the Excel STOCKHISTORY function. It is currently available for all Excel 365 subscribers. [...]

4 Lessons From The Greatest Quant Trader

Essential Traders Library

4 Lessons From The Greatest Quant Trader of All Time
February 12, 2021

Last Updated on January 26, 2023 by Mark Ursell I recently read the book – The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution. It is [...]

RSI Portfolio Analysis Title

Portfolio Analysis

Get Better Trades With Portfolio Analysis
January 20, 2021

Last Updated on August 13, 2021 by Mark Ursell ‘Diversification: the only “free lunch” in finance’ Harry Markowitz, Nobel Prize-Winning Economist and originator or Modern Portfolio Theory An age-old question [...]

2 Ways to Trade Stock Breakouts

Trading Information

2 Stock Breakout Strategies Analyzed
January 4, 2021

Last Updated on January 20, 2021 by Mark Ursell Breakout strategies are one of the oldest and most powerful trading strategies. A hundred years ago Jesse Livermore was writing (with [...]

How to Trade the PSAR

Technical Indicators

How to Trade With the PSAR New Analysis
October 27, 2020

Last Updated on January 26, 2023 by Mark Ursell This article is a comprehensive guide about how to trade with the PSAR indicator. You will will read about: Whether you [...]

Download Yahoo Finance Price Data Into Excel

Historical Price Data

How to Download Price Data From Yahoo Finance into Excel
July 3, 2020

Last Updated on January 26, 2023 by Mark Ursell In this article and video, I show you how to download price data from Yahoo Finance into Excel. Yahoo Finance is [...]

Playing Poker

Trading Strategies

Get More Winning Trades With Volume and Price
June 11, 2020

Last Updated on January 26, 2023 by Mark Ursell This article shows how trading volume combined with price can improve your trading results. Watch the Video In the video I [...]

ETF Gap Trading

Trading Strategies

Profitable ETF Gap Trading Strategies
May 11, 2020

Last Updated on January 26, 2023 by Mark Ursell I tested three different ETFs to answer the question: Can you profitably trade opening gaps? And if so: what markets and [...]

Google Sheets into Excel

Google Sheets

How to Import Live Data From Google Sheets into Excel
April 28, 2020

Last Updated on January 26, 2023 by Mark Ursell This article shows you how to import live data from Google Sheets into Excel. Google Sheets or Excel – Which is [...]

Improve and Clean Historical Price Data

Trading Information

How to Improve And Clean Historical Price Data
April 14, 2020

Last Updated on January 26, 2023 by Mark Ursell Do you trade Stocks, Forex, ETFs, Futures, Indices, Bonds or Commodities? There is one thing that every successful trader needs. Whether [...]

Best Strategy For Every Market

Trading Strategies

The Best Strategy For Every Market Type
March 20, 2020

Last Updated on January 26, 2023 by Mark Ursell Would you like to know the best strategy for different market conditions? It would certainly give you an edge to know [...]

MFI Trading Strategy

Trading Strategies

An MFI Trading Strategy That You Should Know About (New Concept)
January 28, 2020

Last Updated on January 26, 2023 by Mark Ursell This MFI trading strategy is designed to give you large winning trades. This strategy is perfect for people who are patience [...]

What is the MFI Indicator - Money Flow Index

Technical Indicators

What is the MFI Indicator?
January 16, 2020

Last Updated on August 13, 2021 by Mark Ursell What is the MFI indicator? and why you should be using it. Video article demonstrating the powerful Money Flow Index (MFI) [...]

Trading Strategies

A Volatility Retracement Trading Strategy
December 16, 2019

Last Updated on January 26, 2023 by Mark Ursell This video and article shows you a volatility trading strategy that you can trade today. Take advantage of the best of [...]

Trading Strategies

Easy to Use Renko Trading Strategy – Video
December 4, 2019

Last Updated on January 26, 2023 by Mark Ursell This video article shows a Renko Trading Strategy that you can use to trade the S&P 500 or SPY ETF. Renko [...]

Zen - Stone in Water - Renko Bars

Excel Trading Candlestick Trading Technical Indicators

How to Calculate Renko in Excel
April 15, 2019

Last Updated on January 26, 2023 by Mark Ursell This article explains why many traders benefit from using Renko charts. It also explains how to calculate Renko and get a [...]

Mean Reversion - RSI

Trading Strategies

A Simple RSI Mean Reversion Strategy
January 18, 2019

Last Updated on January 26, 2023 by Mark Ursell One of the most important lessons that every trader needs to learn is to trade a strategy that fits your personality. [...]

Excel Trading Historical Price Data

Get Live Stock and ETF Data in Excel 365 – Really Fast!
December 13, 2018

Last Updated on January 26, 2023 by Mark Ursell It is really useful to have live price data in Excel. And Microsoft has now made it much easier to import [...]

SP500 2008-2009 Stock Market Crash

How to Hedge

Are you Ready for a Stock Market Crash?
November 6, 2018

Last Updated on January 26, 2023 by Mark Ursell This article looks at how you can prepare yourself for a future stock market crash. I look at what has happened [...]

good trading decisions

Trading Books Trading Psychology

Are you struggling to make good trading decisions? These 5 tips might help
September 6, 2018

Last Updated on January 26, 2023 by Mark Ursell Two traders start their day. They both wake up at 7 am ready to face the markets. They check what the markets [...]

Nasdaq QQQ Long Term Strategy

Trading Strategies

A Profitable Nasdaq QQQ Long-Term Strategy
June 28, 2018

Last Updated on January 26, 2023 by Mark Ursell This article describes a Nasdaq QQQ trading strategy. The strategy is easy to manage, and it will keep you on the [...]

Monitor Relative Strength Trading Strategy in Google Sheets

Google Sheets Relative Strength

Monitor a Relative Strength Strategy using Google Sheets
June 18, 2018

Last Updated on January 26, 2023 by Mark Ursell Imagine you are watching a horse race. The runners and riders are at the starting gate. The starter’s flag does down, [...]

Updated Swing Trading Strategy

Trading Strategies

Best Strategy for the Current Markets
April 19, 2018

Last Updated on January 26, 2023 by Mark Ursell The storm clouds burst in the financial markets in early 2018 The skies were blue and clear in 2017. But lightning [...]

Tradinformed - Market Downturn

Trading Information Trading Psychology

6 Things I Learned from a Market Downturn
February 14, 2018

Last Updated on July 9, 2020 by Mark Ursell Last week I was like most traders around the world. As the markets fell, I was biting my nails, drinking gallons [...]

bitcoin price

Cryptocurrencies Trading Strategies

How to Trade Bitcoin Like a Pro
January 16, 2018

Last Updated on January 26, 2023 by Mark Ursell 2017 saw Bitcoin and the other cryptocurrencies blow up from nowhere to become the world’s most popular financial story. Digital millionaires [...]

Tradinformed - Santa Claus Rally

Trading Strategies

4 Ways to Trade the Santa Claus Rally
November 28, 2017

Last Updated on January 26, 2023 by Mark Ursell At this time of year investors and traders are looking forward to a bit of festive cheer. December has historically been [...]

Tradinformed - cognitive bias and trading

Trading Information Trading Psychology

Improve your Trading by Changing your Thinking
November 16, 2017

Last Updated on August 13, 2021 by Mark Ursell In this article, I look at how a pair of research psychologists have revolutionised how we think. I discuss how their [...]

EUR/USD with Donchian Bands

Trading Strategies

How to Trade a EUR/USD Breakout Strategy
September 7, 2017

Last Updated on January 26, 2023 by Mark Ursell Why a Breakout Strategy is an Essential Part of Your Portfolio Every trader should consider including a breakout strategy in their [...]

Trading the S&P 500 with the VIX

Trade Ideas Trading Strategies

How to Time S&P 500 Entries Using the VIX
June 26, 2017

Last Updated on January 26, 2023 by Mark Ursell I recently received an email from Dr Alexander Elder in which he mentions using the VIX Volatility Index as an entry [...]

Tradinformed - Best sources free historical data

Trading Information

The Best Sources of Free Historical Price Data
May 25, 2017

Last Updated on January 26, 2023 by Mark Ursell One of the questions that I am asked most often is: where can I get free online historical price data? In this [...]

How to Backtest Relative Strength Trading Strategies

How to Backtest a Stock Market Trading Strategy
March 27, 2017

Last Updated on January 26, 2023 by Mark Ursell In this article, I show how you can use Excel to test your own stock market trading strategies. The strategy in [...]

Trading Psychology

How this Psychology Experiment Can make You a Better Trader
January 23, 2017

Last Updated on November 22, 2019 by Mark Ursell I recently thought about the similarities between becoming a successful trader and successfully losing weight. Both of them can be very [...]

EURUSD Pips and Position Size

Trading Information

How to Calculate Lots for Fixed Fractional Position Sizing
January 12, 2017

Last Updated on November 22, 2019 by Mark Ursell All forex traders will admit that they found lot size a confusing issue when they first started trading. It is more complicated than [...]

MT4 Trading Automation

How to Create an EA for a SuperTrend Trading Strategy v.2
November 29, 2016

Last Updated on January 26, 2023 by Mark Ursell In December 2013 I wrote an article on How to Create an MT4 EA for a SuperTrend trading strategy. Since then [...]

Trading Information

A Chess Grandmaster and Trading Strategy
October 10, 2016

Last Updated on March 12, 2019 by Mark Ursell What Picture are We Painting? Playing chess is like trying to paint a masterpiece while someone is tugging at your sleeve [...]

Trading with Google Sheets

Google Sheets Trading Automation

Import and Store Live Price Data in Google Sheets
September 19, 2016

Last Updated on January 26, 2023 by Mark Ursell This article shows you how you can import live price data into your Google Sheets spreadsheet. Google Sheets spreadsheets are part of [...]

Double Bottom on AUD/USD

Chart Patterns

Calculate Double Top Chart Patterns Using Excel
September 5, 2016

Last Updated on November 28, 2022 by Mark Ursell Double Top and Double Bottom are classic chart reversal patterns. In this article, I show how you can use Excel to [...]

S&P 500 - Nasdaq Composite - Relative Strength

Trading Strategies

Invest Profitably Using Relative Strength
July 13, 2016

Last Updated on August 13, 2021 by Mark Ursell In this article, I show you can invest profitably in the Nasdaq and S&P500 using a relative strength strategy. I show [...]

Set push alerts using MT4

MT4

How to Set Up MT4 for Push Alerts
June 14, 2016

Last Updated on June 25, 2018 by Mark Ursell This article shows how you can use MetaTrader 4 to get push alerts for Android and iPhone. You can set up trade [...]

Tradinformed SP500 Strength Exit

Trading Strategies

Get Better Trading Results – Improving Your Trade Exits
May 20, 2016

Last Updated on August 19, 2021 by Mark Ursell People spend a lot of time thinking about how and when to enter a trade. However, how you exit a trade [...]

Learn to Trade Trading Strategies

How to Calculate and Trade With the TSF
April 29, 2016

Last Updated on August 19, 2021 by Mark Ursell The Time Series Forecast (TSF) indicator uses the Linear Regression to predict the future price. In this article, I show how [...]

Tradinformed EUR/USD SuperTrend

Trading Strategies

A Forex SuperTrend Trading Strategy
April 13, 2016

Last Updated on September 12, 2018 by Mark Ursell In this article, I show a trading strategy that uses the SuperTrend indicator to trade the EUR/USD forex pair. I also [...]

Swing trading strategy

Trading Strategies

A Simple Swing Trading Strategy for the S&P 500
March 11, 2016

Last Updated on July 13, 2020 by Mark Ursell Swing trading is a way of taking advantage of market retracements to get better entries and more profitable trades. In this [...]

Impluse Indicator on the S&P 500

Trading Strategies

How to Trade the S&P500 Using The Impulse Indicator
February 19, 2016

In this article I look at whether the Impulse Indicator is a good tool for trading the S&P 500 index. In my analysis I got some surprising results and I [...]

EURUSD Backtest a Trading Strategy

How to Backtest Trading Strategies

Backtesting a Trading Strategy – Example
January 18, 2016

Last Updated on November 28, 2022 by Mark Ursell This article shows you a step-by-step process for backtesting a trading strategy. All traders can benefit from testing their trading strategies. [...]

Double your stock market returns with seasonality

Trading Strategies

Double Your Stock Market Returns Using Seasonality
December 16, 2015

Last Updated on December 4, 2019 by Mark Ursell I like to take a quantitative approach to the markets and I find seasonal factors very interesting. In this article, I investigate whether [...]

Reminiscences of a stock operator

Essential Traders Library Trading Books

12 Lessons from Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
December 7, 2015

Last Updated on January 6, 2020 by Mark Ursell Written almost 100 years ago, few trading books have had the influence and lasting popularity as Edwin Lefèvre’s trading classic. This [...]

Fibonacci Trading Strategy

Trading Strategies

Another Fibonacci Retracement Trading Strategy
October 30, 2015

Last Updated on November 28, 2022 by Mark Ursell This article shows you a Fibonacci retracement trading strategy. You will learn the best way to identify Fibonacci levels, how to [...]

Fib Retracements EUR/USD

Excel Trading Trading Information

Calculate Fibonacci Retracements Automatically
October 26, 2015

Last Updated on March 9, 2021 by Mark Ursell This article shows you how to calculate Fibonacci Retracements in Excel. Like many traders, I love using Fibonacci Retracements on my [...]

How to Calculate your Trading Edge

Trading Strategies

How to Calculate Your Trading Edge
October 7, 2015

Last Updated on July 9, 2020 by Mark Ursell Every trader should understand their edge in their trading. If we have an edge, we have the ability to make a profit [...]

Williams Percent R on EUR/USD

Technical Indicators

How to Calculate the Williams %R Using Excel
September 28, 2015

Last Updated on November 28, 2022 by Mark Ursell In this article and video, I show how to calculate the Williams %R using Excel. The Williams %R is a technical [...]

Trading With Volume

Interviews with Traders

How to Use Big Volume to Predict the Price Direction
September 1, 2015

Last Updated on November 22, 2019 by Mark Ursell I have been keen to do an interview with Mike DiBari for a while now. He has a fascinating way of [...]

Trading Strategies Excel Trading

How to Trade 3 Line Break Charts Profitably
June 15, 2015

Last Updated on January 9, 2020 by Mark Ursell “A more subtle form of point and figure charts” 3 Line Break Charts are a fascinating type of charting system that [...]

Trade Ideas Trading Strategies

Analyzing a Forex Fibonacci Retracement Strategy
April 8, 2015

Last Updated on July 9, 2020 by Mark Ursell Fibonacci retracements look great on charts but how useful are they for forex traders? I wanted to know whether they are helpful [...]

Money Flow Index

Trading Strategies

Trade Volume using the Money Flow Index
March 16, 2015

Last Updated on November 28, 2022 by Mark Ursell Volume is often overlooked in technical analysis. However, volume contains fascinating information about the strength of the market feeling. High volume [...]

Algorithmic Trading

Insights into the World of Algorithmic Trading
February 24, 2015

Last Updated on December 4, 2019 by Mark Ursell Trading into the future Algorithmic trading is more popular than ever. No longer the preserve of Wall Street and hedge funds, it [...]

Trading Strategies

Pyramid Your Trading Profits Using the Gator
February 16, 2015

Last Updated on November 28, 2022 by Mark Ursell In this article, I describe the Gator Oscillator and how you can use it as part of a pyramid entry trading [...]

Tradinformed - How to Calculate PSAR in Excel

Technical Indicators

How to Calculate the PSAR Indicator – New Version
January 21, 2015

Last Updated on November 28, 2022 by Mark Ursell In this article, I talk about how to calculate the PSAR indicator. I show how the indicator can be used and describe the formulas for [...]

Tradinformed Aroon Indicator

Trading Strategies

What is Aroon and How to Trade it on the S&P 500
January 9, 2015

Last Updated on November 28, 2022 by Mark Ursell Aroon – Dawn’s Early Light The S&P 500 index is a great way to invest, trade and make money out of [...]

Tradinformed Ichimoku Strategies

Trading Strategies

3 Profitable Ichimoku Trading Strategies
December 22, 2014

Last Updated on November 28, 2022 by Mark Ursell In this article, I show three Ichimoku trading strategies. I then show you the results of how these trading strategies perform [...]

Zig Zag Indicator

Trading Strategies

A Long-Term Stock Index Trading Strategy
October 27, 2014

Last Updated on November 28, 2022 by Mark Ursell In this article I describe a long-term stock index trading strategy. I then show how the strategy performed on the S&P [...]

Dow Jones with Heiken Ashi Bars

Trading Strategies

A Simple, Profitable Heikin-Ashi Trading System
October 14, 2014

Last Updated on October 5, 2022 by Mark Ursell Heikin-Ashi candlesticks are a slightly different way of viewing the markets. In this article, I will show how they are used [...]

MT4 Trading Alerts

MT4 Trading Automation

How to use MT4 to get Trading Alerts via Email
September 30, 2014

Last Updated on February 19, 2018 by Mark Ursell MetaTrader 4 (MT4) is a hugely popular platform for forex traders around the world. In this article, I will show how [...]

Tradinformed - EUR/USD and Random Entry

Trading Strategies Excel Trading

EUR/USD Backtested – Technical Indicators and Random Entry
August 22, 2014

Last Updated on November 28, 2022 by Mark Ursell Random Entry This article is the second in a series investigating how effective random entry can be in a trading strategy. In [...]

Excel Trading Trading Strategies

Backtesting a EUR/USD Trading Strategy Using an ATR Trailing Stop
August 15, 2014

Last Updated on November 28, 2022 by Mark Ursell In this article I will show the results of my backtest of a EUR/USD trading strategy. What is interesting about this [...]

Trade the Trend

Essential Traders Library Trading Information

5 Trend Following Indicators for Forex Traders
July 31, 2014

Last Updated on July 9, 2020 by Mark Ursell In this article, I discuss five technical indicators that are used by trend following forex traders. In 2004, Michael Covel published [...]

8 Lessons from Market Wizards

Essential Traders Library

8 Trading Lessons From Market Wizards
July 17, 2014

Last Updated on January 24, 2017 by Mark Ursell In this article I discuss the book, Market Wizards, by Jack D. Schwager. The book is one of the best books on trading [...]

Rock Paper Scissors - Trading Psychology

Trading Psychology

Trading and Rock, Paper, Scissors
July 10, 2014

Last Updated on January 24, 2017 by Mark Ursell What do trading the financial markets have to do with the game Rock, Paper, Scissors? In this article I look at [...]

Economic Growth

European Economic Forecasts and Trading the Euro
May 6, 2014

Last Updated on November 29, 2017 by Mark Ursell The European Commission (EC) published economic forecasts for European Union countries on May 5th 2014. The forecasts are produced by the Directorate-General [...]

Binary Options Learn to Trade

A Simple 15 Minute Binary Option Candlestick Trading Strategy
April 25, 2014

Last Updated on August 25, 2016 by Mark Ursell This article discusses why candlestick trading is an ideal way to trade binary options. Viewing price action in the form of [...]

Calculate the PSAR in Excel

Excel Trading Trading Information

How to Calculate the PSAR Indicator using Excel
March 24, 2014

Last Updated on November 28, 2022 by Mark Ursell This Article and PSAR Calculation has been superseded by a new version. The new article is better and easier to follow. [...]

Binary Options Trading Information

Why Trade Binary Options?
March 19, 2014

Last Updated on July 9, 2020 by Mark Ursell Binary Options are a growth part of the trading business.  In this article I look at what I think is interesting [...]

EURUSD Trailing Stop

Excel Trading

How to Calculate a Trailing Stop-Loss Using Excel
January 28, 2014

Last Updated on March 8, 2021 by Mark Ursell This post shows how an Excel backtest model can be used to calculate a trailing stop-loss for a trading strategy. You [...]

Economic Growth

The Best Economic Indicators for Measuring Economic Trends
January 22, 2014

Many traders and investors carefully watch the release of economic indicators such as PMI data to get a glimpse of how the economy is performing. A release that is perceived [...]

MT4

Optimizing a SuperTrend Trading Strategy Expert Advisor
January 10, 2014

Last Updated on November 28, 2022 by Mark Ursell This article shows you how to optimize a MT4 Expert Advisor (EA) and turn a good trading strategy into a great [...]

Create SuperTrend EA

MT4

Create an Expert Advisor for a SuperTrend Trading Strategy
December 23, 2013

Last Updated on November 28, 2022 by Mark Ursell In this article, I will show you how to build an Expert Advisor for a SuperTrend Trading Strategy. MT4 is a [...]

SuperTrend on S&P500

Trading Strategies

Backtesting a SuperTrend Trading Strategy Using Excel
December 5, 2013

Last Updated on November 28, 2022 by Mark Ursell As the name suggests, the SuperTrend technical indicator helps to identify market trends. This article introduces a SuperTrend trading strategy and [...]

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