Category Archives: Stocks

Using SVM Kernels for Time Series Analysis

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Tom

I wanted to share two research papers that are invaluable to anyone trying to use Support Vector Machines (SVM) for modeling the stock market.  One written by an author well known to the Rapid-I team, and another by Korean researcher. … Continue reading →

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Name That Technical Pattern!

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Tom

Three different stocks, three different (possible) technical patterns.  Can my readers tell me where and what these technical patterns are? Stock #1 Stock #2 Stock #3

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YUM

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Tom

Currently long $YUM and loving it, so far. Loving the R plotting capabilities too!

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Long CSX

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Tom

I’m still long $CSX, even after all this nuttiness in the market.  I didn’t get stopped out yesterday and actually closed up.  Trend trading is a whole different ball game indeed.

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Breakout Stock Pattern Recognition

Posted on January 19, 2011 by Tom

I love trading breakouts and piling into trends.  As such I’ve been spending an awful lot of time trying to understand patterns that the assets make prior to breaking out and forming new trends. It’s not rocket science, from a … Continue reading →

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A Simple INTC Chart

Posted on December 9, 2010 by Tom

After yesterday’s “not so simple GOOG chart” adventure, I spent more time digging around the matplotlib website and discovered the matplotlib.finance module.  Grabbing a python chart example code from the matplotlib site and applying the axis labeling lessons I learned … Continue reading →

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A Not So Simple GOOG Chart

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Tom

What I am about to post is a simple $GOOG chart created by a python script that I grabbed off Trainee Trader’s site.  While creating a line chart of GOOG’s stock price is really basic finance, it does represent something … Continue reading →

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An Example of R and Rapidminer for Trading

Posted on November 20, 2010 by Tom

Ingo over at the Rapid-I blog found this link from a Rapid-I forum member about using R and Rapidminer for Trading.  It’s a pretty wild process developed by Neural Concepts, and he goes into detail about the the win/loss ratios … Continue reading →

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Would You Buy DNDN?

Posted on February 16, 2010 by Tom

$DNDN is routinely making all time highs and the question I pose this morning is, would you buy it now?  A lot of people are scared to buy all time highs. They think that since its at an all time high, … Continue reading →

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A Review of PMCS

Posted on January 27, 2010 by Tom

I wrote about $PMCS back on 1/14/10, the day after it made a nice hammer formation at its 200 DMA.  It made the hammer at the bottom of a trend with very little volume or conviction for me, and I … Continue reading →

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A Review Of My V Trade

Posted on January 26, 2010 by Tom

I entered Visa ($V) back on 12/22/09 after it made an all time high, with heavy volume, the day before.  It then went sideways for a month and I was finally taken out on 1/22, right below its 50 DMA. … Continue reading →

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A Review of NEP

Posted on January 25, 2010 by Tom

I've been posting a few candlestick chart scans and asking my readers, "would you buy them" here and now or just posting some basic commentary about them being screwed.  Let's take a look at how one of them faired after … Continue reading →

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