Blog: Rules-Based Trading Plan

Rules-Based Trading Plan

by Frantz Herr

About the Blog

Rules-Based Trading Plan

In this new blog series, Frantz will go step by step through the process of using post-trade analysis to create a rules-based trading plan.

Lessons From Trading (Mistakes) – Blog posts in 2019

Even veteran investors make mistakes. Private investor, Frantz Herr, presents examples of mistakes he has made in order to help pinpoint bad tendencies and work on correcting them. His mistakes may help you recognize similar issues in your own trading or reinforce those things you are doing right. These are all actual trades.

Frantz Herr

Frantz Herr is a private investor and writer of the blogs, Rules-Based Trading Plan and Lessons from Trading (Mistakes) and co-host of the vlog, Anatomy of a Trade. Frantz coaches members of the Wyckoff Trading Process Group and was a presenter at the Best of Wyckoff 2021 Online Conference. Frantz bought his first stock in 1974 and has had a deep passion for investing most of his life. He retired from Merrill Lynch in 2017 after serving clients as a financial advisor for 32 years. He is now focused on managing his family’s portfolio.

Frantz has gone through numerous bull and bear markets in various asset classes during his investing life. Over the years he has narrowed his areas of investing interest and spends most of his time today thinking about two markets. He is a disciple of the William O’Neil CANSLIM methodology for growth stocks; and he tracks the market for gold and gold mining stocks. In 2016 he began to educate himself about Richard D. Wyckoff, and in 2018 became a client of Wyckoff Analytics. He has taken WTC Part I, WTC Part II (formerly Practicum), and a variety of Wyckoff Analytics’ special topic courses including the Wyckoff Trading Process Group and is a regular participant on the Wyckoff Market Discussion.

Latest Blogs

7/31

2019

TVTY Trade #2 - Trade Management Is Key

by Frantz Herr

The trade began well:

Being aware of the context of where a stock is currently trading can create opportunities, and sometimes these may be counter-trend trades.
Overbought and oversold conditions can generate trades with good character – favorable returns quickly – even... READ MORE

7/31

2019

TVTY #1 - Analyze the Price Volume Action in the BUA

by Frantz Herr

TVTY

My process uses CANSLIM and Wyckoff principles. In November of 2018 TVTY was on the IBD 50 at #41. The story is they manage the Silver Sneakers fitness program for seniors.

The stock had been building a cause for 9 years. The structure looked very attractive to me as it ... READ MORE

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The materials presented in the Lessons from Trading (Mistakes) Blogs are for educational purposes only: nothing contained in any of these materials should be construed as investment advice of any kind. REGARDLESS OF ANY LANGUAGE IN ANY RULES-BASED TRADING PLAN AND/OR LESSONS FROM TRADING (MISTAKES) BLOG POST, NEITHER THE RULES-BASED TRADING PLAN AND LESSONS FROM TRADING (MISTAKES) AUTHOR(S) NOR WYCKOFF ASSOCIATES, LLC, NOR ANYONE AFFILIATED WITH THE LATTER ORGANIZATION IN ANY WAY IS RECOMMENDING THAT YOU BUY OR SELL ANY SECURITY, OPTION, FUTURE, ETF, OR ANY OTHER MARKETS MENTIONED. There is a very high degree of risk of financial loss involved in trading securities. You understand and acknowledge that you alone are responsible for your trading and investment decisions and results. Frantz Herr, Wyckoff Associates, LLC, www.wyckoffanalytics.com, Roman Bogomazov, and all officers, staff, employees, and other individuals affiliated with Wyckoff Associates, LLC, and www.wyckoffanalytics.com assume no responsibility or liability of any kind for your trading and investment results. It should not be assumed that investments in or trading of securities, options, futures, ETFs, companies, sectors or any other markets identified and described in these Lessons from Trading (Mistakes) Blogs were, are or will be profitable.

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