Security Trading Analytics

An Initial Evaluation of Buy on Proper Order and Sell on Dynamic Stop Loss Orders A well-constructed buy-sell strategy can help you buy securities when their prices are highly likely to continue rising until they don’t rise any more.  Self-directed security traders sometimes call this a “buy high, sell higher” strategy.  One way of implementing this kind of strategy is to buy a security when its price is rising, and sell the security through a sell order that protects accumulated returns from an imminent reversal or price gradually drifting lower from its entry for a position.  Another critical feature of the strategy is that sell order prices can be dynamic and rise in response to gains in the underlying security’s price. There are many ways to implement this kind of strategy.  This post implements the buy high element of the strategy based on the relationships between close prices and two or more exponential moving averages (EMAs) with different period lengths....