Author: Steven Karp

Question: What’s a trader to do when a less than stellar year is followed by an even worse beginning of the new year?  Answer: Keep the faith and continue to trade like nothing is different.  Last year my trading...

Two weeks ago the intensity of the sell off generated several sell signals. Since then the market has moved slowly upward but with little force. However, several of the sell signals are approaching reversal inspite of the anemic...

Gold continues to refuse to play its hand, so we have yet to learn if  we are in a new downtrend or just a correction of the continuing uptrend. I am on a short-term buy signal since 2/16/2010 but that will soon end...

My long-term timing system keeps generating sell signals with 3 markets generating signals this week. If next week continues the downward trend or the next few weeks maintain a sideways direction, many other markets will also...

Cocoa has been in a sideways consolidation since about November. Today’s decline into the 3180 area may be indicating the the seasonal slide into February is ready to commence. Of course, further action will be necessary...

I’ve been asked several times why I use Yield Spread as my measure of default risk rather than simply using bond credit ratings. My answer is simple, Yield Spread is a continuously changing market characterization of risk,...

What’s being going on in the Cocoa market since we issued a sell signal on December 18 at 3251?   Well, as the chart below shows, not much. Seasonal patterns suggest Cocoa should head lower into February but a...

I believe system design is critical to successful trading, but actually implementing a trading system is the most difficult step towards profitable trading. That’s because in most cases the roadblocks to implementation are...