From the desk of Thomas Bruni @BruniCharting
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I look at a few hundred charts per day across multiple timeframes, and thousands each weekend, but I very rarely find an idea that’s actionable at that particular moment. This begs the question of why I look at so many charts if they rarely lead to actually putting on a trade, to which the answer brings us to the title of this post.
When utilizing a top-down approach to technical analysis, every liquid global asset class provides some type of information that’s useful, even if you don’t trade that asset class directly. Instead, each new piece of data adds to the pool of information that we as market participants use to make decisions. When the weight of evidence suggests a more probable outcome, that is when it’s appropriate to put on a trade that expresses that theme or thesis in the most capital-efficient way possible. [Read more…]