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The Commodities Super Cycle: Big moves do not come with a surprise!

When trading multi-bar visual price patterns, big moves do not come with a surprise! The patterns can be spotted well in advance and the potential for a possible big price increase can be identified before

How My New Big Picture Outlook Changes Everything

The Big Picture Outlook represents an important foundation for your investment and trading decisions. Van regularly points out that a very long-term analysis is critical for success trading the markets.

Trading Visual Price Patterns is a Bit Like Hunting for Fish

Trading for visual price patterns is a bit like hunting for fish. Sometimes the small fish come close to the beach – and at other times, you need to go out a bit deeper into the waters to find bigger

Have You Heard the Starting Shot for Bitcoin As Well?

Just a few days ago on the 25th of October 2019, the price of Bitcoin surged by a staggering +42% within 15 hours representing one of its biggest moves since its inception in 2009. Even for a volatile

The Futures Market and the Price Shakeout

For a good part of every year, I stay in Greece where I have a home close to the water. I share a speedboat with a friend of mine, and I really love to drive it. It is fun and at some point in its acceleration

Top Ten Reasons to Trade Futures

Until about 15 years ago, futures markets were dominated by trading in the ‘pit’ — the physical trading floor. Pit traders yelled out their buy/sell orders to find a fellow floor trader to assume

Trading Futures: Speedboat vs. Cruise Ship – Q&As

Gabriel Grammatidis interviewed by Van Tharp Institute (USA), September 2019 Editor’s Note: Gabriel is a successful full-time trader, a VTI workshop instructor, and a dedicated coach with a passion

A Structured Approach to Trading Mastery

Many traders start a trading venture and approach the markets in a very discretionary way with barely any rules – or no rules at all. They have a strong desire to apply their own ‘trading guts’ testing

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