Diversification is an effective risk reduction tool and should include trading different strategies. Almost all trading strategies consist of rules that use price as an input, and almost every trading indicator relies solely on price in its calculation.
A trade can be very “right” in every logical way if your valuation of the underlying asset or your analysis of the chart pattern was done correctly … but if your opinion gets crossways with the larger flow of money in or out of that market, your subsequent losses will feel very “wrong.”
I have discussed in past articles how volume and open interest can be used to help identify and confirm market situations and trading opportunities. I’ll take open interest one step farther in this column by examining the Commitments of Traders (C.O.T.) report, issued by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The C.O.T. report is released