In April 2018, I flew to Manila to give a talk. Since I was already there, I took a couple of days off to see the city, and then went down to the coast for some sun and sea. The talk was at the Traders Fair, a trading expo in Manila, where I was invited […]
Since the crash of 2008, and the recovery which started in 2009, the stock markets (especially the US markets), have been on a steady uptrend. Chart: S&P 500 index (weekly chart) Many of us have heard about the 10 year cycle, where the market is supposed to crash once every 10 years, for example the […]
Since the highs in December 2017, Bitcoin and most cryptocurrencies have seen a sharp decline, and agile traders/investors have mostly exited to await better buying opportunities. This includes myself, and after cashing out my profits in early 2018 (after the double top reversal), I have started to accumulate small amounts of Bitcoin for my long-term […]
By Spencer Li, CFTe · Last updated: 26 October 2026 Combining price action with multiple timeframes means reading the same market on two charts, a slower one for the main trend and a faster one for the move happening now. You mark each one bullish or bearish from the price alone. When both charts agree, […]
“In economics, Kondratiev waves (also called supercycles, great surges, long waves, K-waves or the long economic cycle) are hypothesized cycle-like phenomena in the modern world economy. It is stated that the period of a wave ranges from forty to sixty years, the cycles consist of alternating intervals between high sectoral growth and intervals of relatively slow growth.” – Wikipedia After the global financial crisis in 2008, the market bottomed […]