[Premium] Van Tharp Institute – Swing Trading Systems Video Home Study – Ken Long

 

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[Premium] Van Tharp Institute – Swing Trading Systems Video Home Study – Ken Long

 

Not just one, not just three, but FIVE distinct Swing Trading Systems! You will get to learn at your own pace and in your own place!

This course has over 10 hours of instruction with significant follow-along documents, which you can download. You can review the videos as many times and as often as you like for two full years.

 

Swing Trading Systems eLearning Course, a short overview of the course.

5 Swing Systems:

In the Swing Trading Systems Elearning course, Dr. Ken Long teaches five swing trading systems that he developed and traded.

Some of these systems are based on research from published work of analysts or traders while others are his own unique creations.

These are not conceptual strategies that should work in theory or which have nice backtests. These systems have specific rules that have proven themselves to work in live trading.  In addition to Dr. Long’s track record trading them over a period of several years, he has lots of anecdotal data from institutional and individual traders who attended his previous swing workshops and who trade these systems actively today.  These five swing systems generate setup signals that are the basis for many of Dr. Long’s intraday trades today as well.

 

Here’s a little more detail on each of the systems:

System 1: Channeling:

On a regular basis, price pulls away from the primary trend. That signals either a reversal or an opportunity to rejoin the trend with an attractive entry. This system captures those resumptions of trend with a simple set of setup conditions, entry rules, and exit rules. For as simple as the system appears, it produces consistently great results. Long only system, the bull market only.

System 2: Overreaction:

Dr. Long likes to say that “the market will never react when it can overreact.” Consequently, it overreacts all the time —which offers regular opportunities for traders to profit from these overreactions. These trades, however, require a way to know whether price moves are average or exceptional. Dr. Long has devised such a system and built a robust set of rules that reaps regular returns from the return to “normal” conditions.  Long and short positions, generates signals in both bull and bear markets.

System 3: 5 Days Down:

Dr. Long developed and tested this system after reading a research paper that mentioned a phenomenon whereby stocks that have fallen for five or more straight days tend to bounce up at that point or start back down again. Dr. Long thought about how to “systematize” that idea, and it worked—and still works quite well. Like the washout system, there’s often a secondary and more reliable continuation trade, so this is really two systems rather than one.  Long only, works in bull, sideways and bear markets.  Dr. Long also discusses a shorting variation of the system for bear markets.

System 4: 551w:

One of Dr. Long’s long-time students came up with the idea of combining three setup criteria and discussed it with Dr. Long at one of his workshops. Dr. Long liked the idea so much that he actually started trading it the next week. It combines three consecutive setups from other systems that build off each other for a highly reliable trade. It’s simple to use, and—as with Dr. Long’s other systems—can be applied either mechanically or with trader discretion for some added benefit. Long only, bull and sideways markets.

System 5: Washout:

This system watches out for extreme overreactions measured on both a short-term and long-term basis, but there are important safety measures in place to ensure that you don’t get caught trying to catch a falling knife. The system usually exits the trades in a couple of days and in many cases benefits from a follow-on or continuation trade. Long only, bull, sideways, and bear markets.  Dr. Long discusses a shorting variation for bear markets specifically.

“System” 6+: Multiple Additional Ideas and Trading Strategies:

Dr. Long never teaches just the material in his workbook. He always goes beyond and talks at length about trading strategies, new system ideas, systems in the research stage, new “production” systems and the system development process in general. He will also touch on ideas for taking swing system signals to find shorter-term trades, though, at the system level, he will only be teaching swing systems in this workshop. Dr. Long never fails to inspire and enlighten.

 

Swing Trading Systems Course Structure:

This e-learning course has been separated into two parts.

1) Part I has four sections

2) Part II has one section

 

Part I Section 1, Baseline Lectures:

In this series of four lectures, Dr. Long covers topics ranging from adult learning theory to his trading principles to market types.  There are about two hours of streaming lectures and about ten downloadable documents.

Part I Section 2, Channeling System and Overreaction System:

Dr. Long covers the logic behind and rules for the first two trading systems in nearly an hour and a half of lectures.  In addition, there are about a half dozen documents relating to this section available for download which includes the written rules for each system and a number of case study setup charts or completed trade charts for each system.

Part I Section 3, Trading Strategies:

During the roughly two and a half hours of lectures in this section, Dr. Long discusses a number of important trading topics that relate to understanding system results and working to improve system performance in various ways.  He provides interesting concepts that are valuable as well as exercises that are highly practical.

Part I Section 4, Bonus Section:

Dr. Long evolved from a mechanical swing trader into a rule-based discretionary intraday trader over a period of about ten years.  He still uses many of the mechanical swing system setup signals taught in this course for his day trades now.  For those traders who are interested and able, he shares his knowledge of how to “turbocharge” swing trade setups and make day trades out of them – or to start them off as day trades and convert them into swing trades.  He calls this process “Swing trading – one day at a time.”  He also provides several strategies (not a full-blown rule set for a trading system) that work well on an intraday basis.  Traders who are uninterested or unable to manage positions during market hours may skip this bonus section.

Part II, 5 Days Down System, 551w System, and Washout System:

In Part II of the course, Dr. Long explains the rules for the final three trading systems and provides some information on how they trade, as well as how the rules can be varied.  He lectures for about half an hour on each system, and there are nearly ten documents related to the systems available for download including the rules as well as case studies for each.