Greed and Fear - Daily trading signals based on mathematics and software, no opinion, no emotion, no ego. Now with verified trading results!

Trading results: 
2020 -$1524,50
2019 +$8185,00
2018 +$1342,50
2017 +$5843,00
All verified! 
(trading exactly one E-mini S&P 500 future for the Greed and Fear model portfolio)

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Category: Results

resultsIn 2017, a start was made with verified actual trading results. Now we continue doing so for the year 2020. The result is based on trading only 1 E-mini S&P future with a (minimum) $10.000,- base amount. This is the Greed and Fear model portfolio. With the accumulated profits, the value of this portfolio stands at $25370,50 at the start of 2020.

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Parent Category: Today
Category: Market updates

trading update

The year started off with the worst month in a long time. Two trades, both losing ones, causing a total loss of $1524,50 Order execution was according to plan, but that does not guarantee success.

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Parent Category: Today
Category: Market updates

trading update

Unfortunately, no trades were made in December. Market movement in or around holidays is usually on lower volume and movement (if any) seems more random. 

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Parent Category: Trading
Category: Trading signals

forbiddenThe easiest way to replicate the Greed and Fear model portfolio is by using the autotrading facility. There's a section that explains how that all works. But there can also be good reasons not to use autotrading. 

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Parent Category: Trading
Category: Market psychology

stock chartIf you use any search engine and type in the phrase "How to become a successful short term trader" or anything similar, you will find roughly 70 million(!) websites that will help you in achieving that goal, or so it seems. While in reality, there's only one right and honest answer which is more like this: "There is an extremely low probability you will ever be successful in short term trading, and you will most likely lose all funds in your account".

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Parent Category: Trading
Category: Market psychology

financial analystsAfter part 1 and part 2 of the 'Market gurus and their predictions'-series, there's now part 3. 

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Parent Category: Trading
Category: Market psychology

sharpshooter_fallacyEvery now and then when I'm reading an article from the world of behavioral economics discussing a particular phenomenon, it makes you realize once again how much trading and investing is about human behavior.

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Parent Category: Trading
Category: Autotrading

conditioningFirst, autotrading is a great development for the trading community, both for investors as well as traders. It gets rid of all the fluff and ambiguous analysis that float around the internet, that whole crazy circus feeding the modern gold-rush.

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Parent Category: Trading
Category: Machine learning

neural networkEarly visitors of this blog have seen my daily posts for years now with the so-called Greed and Fear indicator and to which direction it was pointing. This was my initial attempt to expose the indicator to the public. Along the way, the performance was measured of course, to see if it was any good and useful in trading. The most honest way to measure this performance was by counting index points 'it called right' subtracted by 'index points it called wrong', as I've explained here in more detail.

But during all those years, I never explained in some more detail what the Greed and Fear indicator really was, while this is probably one of the most fascinating subjects today: a neural network! The more widely known terminology would be machine learning, artificial intelligence, etc. There are subtle differences, but it all comes down to 'intelligent software'.