What Is Behavioral Finance? (And Why It Matters for Traders) Last updated: 3 July 2026 · By Spencer Li, CFTe Behavioral finance is the branch of finance that studies why people make irrational money decisions, by combining classical finance (which assumes people act rationally to maximise their own interest) with psychology (which explains the emotions […]
In the game of trading and investing, the goal is not to make once-off huge bets and have large swings in your portfolio based on your luck. The ultimate goal is to achieve consistent returns over the long-run. And to achieve this consistency, traders will not only need to have a good trading plan, but […]
My Trading Journey: How I Went From Broke College Student to Trading Full-Time Last updated: 3 July 2026 · By Spencer Li, CFTe I started trading as a broke college student working part-time jobs to pay my way through school, and over about 15 years I built it into a full-time living and a teaching […]
Another interesting feature of price patterns is how they play out across different timeframes. For example, if you see a pattern on the current timeframe chart you are using, have you wondered how it would look like on a timeframe which is higher or lower? Looking at the example above, on the left we […]
One of the advantages of price patterns is that they are very versatile, allowing you to combine or use them in conjunction with other trading tools or methodologies. For example, if your main method of analysis is Elliot Wave theory, the continuation price patterns will help you analyse the different consolidation permutations, such as flags, […]
