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Category Archives: Stocks
Using SVM Kernels for Time Series Analysis
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
Posted in RapidMiner, Stocks, Tutorials
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Name That Technical Pattern!
Three different stocks, three different (possible) technical patterns. Â Can my readers tell me where and what these technical patterns are? Stock #1 Stock #2 Stock #3
Posted in Stocks, Trends
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YUM
Currently long $YUM and loving it, so far. Loving the R plotting capabilities too!
Posted in R Statistics, Stocks
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Long CSX
I’m still long $CSX, even after all this nuttiness in the market. Â I didn’t get stopped out yesterday and actually closed up. Â Trend trading is a whole different ball game indeed.
Posted in R Statistics, Stocks
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Breakout Stock Pattern Recognition
I love trading breakouts and piling into trends. Â 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
Posted in RapidMiner, Stocks, Trends
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A Simple INTC Chart
After yesterday’s “not so simple GOOG chart” adventure, I spent more time digging around the matplotlib website and discovered the matplotlib.finance module. Â 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
What I am about to post is a simple $GOOG chart created by a python script that I grabbed off Trainee Trader’s site. Â 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
Ingo over at the Rapid-I blog found this link from a Rapid-I forum member about using R and Rapidminer for Trading. Â 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?
$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
A Review of PMCS
I wrote about $PMCS back on 1/14/10, the day after it made a nice hammer formation at its 200 DMA. It made the hammer at the bottom of a trend with very little volume or conviction for me, and I … Continue reading
A Review Of My V Trade
I entered Visa ($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
A Review of NEP
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