Simple way to follow along and get our officially Tracked Trades.
Start now and don’t miss any new Trade Tracker entries with email alerts for trade parameters, entry and exits.
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You may have missed a recent Trade Tracker addition, or joined the website after the entry date. Often, pull backs to our entry point occur and provide a second chance to enter.
Check out the “How To Use” tab with the following link for our “simplified” Trade Tracker.
You want to start making more advanced decisions. Get a head start and delve into our potential Trade Tracker “Candidates”. Moreover, leverage our Ratio Tracker to increase your stack of Gold, Silver, Bitcoin or Ethereum.
Subscribe to additional email notifications for Ratio Tracker and Trade Tracker Candidates.
Head over to the “How To Use” tab for our our fully detailed Trade Tracker table. You will be instructed how to find out the latest “candidates”, their risk and reward profiles and other trade setup parameters.
The ratio tracker is great for those that absolutely want to hold either GOLD or SILVER, BITCOIN or GOLD, BITCOIN or SILVER, and BITCOIN or ETHEREUM.
Using chart analysis, we can try to spot key moments when one instrument is undervalued versus the other, so you can swap and increase your stack.
Start by reading the “How To Use” tab with the link below.
Can’t find an analysis for an instrument you fancy anywhere on the website? Then use our chart request feature to get one queued right away!
Follow the “How To Use” link below.
Mostly self autonomous, you wish to get those extra ideas via our Swing Trades. You also want to get an additional edge leveraging our Heat Map, Heat Map Ratios, and Live Charts. You can also consider Premium Plus membership, which gives you the possibility of having your trade idea added to the Trade Tracker.
Subscribe to additional email notifications for Swing Trades.
Our Heat Map provides a wealth of evidence including increasing/decreasing strength for over 400 instruments. Sortable and filterable.
Get all the details via the “How To Use” tab.
Heat Map “Ratios” is an evolution or our regular Heat Map. It pits major assets and sectors one versus the other and compiles breadth scores. You’ll be able to spot the strongest of the strong to better position your trade scouting efforts.
See the “How To Use” tab link below and get all the information to get you started.
For those wishing to take their time and browse through our wide variety of chart layouts for any one instrument. This can add evidence to any trading decision. Currently 7 different chart layouts, from quarterly to daily charts.
See the “How To Use” link below and get started.
Premium Plus members can let us know their ideas they think could be worth getting tracked officially. See the link below on how to do that.
No noise, just get the basics on website related information, changes we do and house keeping information.
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Search facilities…
Categories and Tags
You can also click on categories and see other posts in those same categories. These are higher level groups.
Tags are more specific detailed meta data for a post. Like a stock name, of specific metal covered.
Getting around…
Top menu bar offers you these shortcuts to important sections of the website:
“Latest Posts” is all the posts in descending chronological order.
“Latest Comments” groups all comments from all posts also in descending chronological order.
“Guides” is where you can get the most basic information about the website, and what we offer. You are here right now.
“Message Hub” is our forum, where members can talk to one another or ask us specific questions.
“Calendar Events” is a tool to see next upcoming events, like Masterclass courses (for Premium Plus only) and Quarterly Live Q/A. Can auto add event info in your favorite calendar tool.
“Start trading” will bring you to all our trading tools. You will find our current open trades, the heat map, live charts and more.
“Email Notification” is where you can subscribe to receive emails when posts with categories of your interests are posted. This is also where you can subscribe to get alerts for open and closed trades from the Trade Tracker.
“Chart Requests” is the area you can add your desired chart requests and see those that are already open.
“Your Favorites” is the hub to see all the posts you flagged during your website exploration.
“Learning Center” includes latest website information, video guides to website, charting tips, masterclass videos (for premium plus members) and quarterly live stream.
“Membership Tools” are for your personal account management.
Learn how to apply risk and money management on your own trade setups. Learn details about our 5-star rating system.
Sign up to additional email notifications “Learning Center”, “Podcast Reviews”, “Interviews” and “Live Stream Q/A”.
Go through our most recent interviews where we often summarize our most recent weight of evidence computations.
You can now venture into induvial posts talking about actual technical charting. Often we use a popular instrument to demonstrate key aspects of useful tools.
You see all posts related to the “Town Hall” live quarterly question and answer periods with the link below. You can attend the next one or start watching previously held and recorded ones.
You can consider Premium Plus membership, which gives you access to monthly Masterclass courses and the library of previously held ones.
Sign up to additional email notifications “Masterclass”.
Consider Premium Plus membership and get access to exclusive monthly Masterclass courses.
https://northstarbadcharts.com/masterclass-gallery/
You also get access to all previously held and recorded sessions, most running over 1.5 hours.
https://northstarbadcharts.com/previous-masterclass-recordings-gallery/
Membership Cancellations – Important
Of course, you’re free to cancel anytime (use ‘membership tools’ option on the website), but please note that when you cancel, you will lose site access immediately, so it’s better to cancel just before your next payment is due to be taken. Just click on ‘membership tools’ on the front page of this site.
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Who are we?
Hello, I’m Kevin Wadsworth, chart trading since 2008 (over 15 years experience).
I have over 30 years experience as a professional meteorologist producing forecasts in a variety of civilian and military environments, and working with the emergency response community, along with delivering training here in the UK and overseas as part of large international projects.
I also have broadcasting experience (National TV, local TV, BBC Radio and online).
I’m based in the UK and really look forward to sharing my expertise
Hi to all! I’m Patrick Karim and have been chart trading since since 2007 (over 16 years experience).
Had a fulfilling 20 year career as an Unix/Linux systems engineer. This helped me refine my analytical approach to chart trading.
Closer you are to what actually matters, more efficient you can be. And of course, those are the actual price charts!
I’m based in Québec, now fully dedicated to chart trading and mentoring
About this website…
Firstly, thank you so much for showing interest in our charting community. However you found us, we’re delighted to see you here, so that we can help you navigate the markets and make more informed investment decisions.
Launched on Monday May 3rd 2021, this site is the culmination of collaborative work between Northstar (Kevin Wadsworth) and Badcharts (Patrick Karim).
- We both have a strong presence on Twitter, but found that we were getting asked many times for charts that we’d already done in the recent past.
- It can be very difficult to find what you’re looking for on social media generally.
- This site provides you with much easier access to all of our charts via an intuitive layout
- Most high value actionable charts will be posted here and not available anywhere else.
- Our social media accounts will continue, but this site will be the ‘jewel in our crown’ where we showcase our best work.
- Our charting styles are distinct from each other, but, we feel, complimentary to each other.
- We make no attempt to ‘synchronize’ our charts so that they tell the same story.
- It’s better (we think) that our work remains uncompromised, giving you the benefit of both our perspectives.
As much as we would like to answer every question posted, it is, of course, not possible. We do read them though, and will answer as, and when, we can. If there is a common theme/question/problem/request, rest assured we will react accordingly.
As the site develops, we’d like to encourage a ‘community feel’, with members having discussions around the topics raised by the charts.
From time to time, either one of us will take a week or two away from the screen to enjoy some family time/holiday/vacation. The beauty is that with two of us here, the site will always be updated regardless.
We are both technical analysts (not financial advisors), so cannot give individual investment advice.
Please use our charts as they’re intended – to help you make properly informed decisions, helping you to weigh up the evidence and stack the odds in YOUR favour. That’s what it’s all about really – nobody knows the future with 100% certainty, but these charts, taken as a whole, should keep you on the right track – navigating the ups and downs of these turbulent markets.
Happy investing.
Kevin & Patrick
Here is a high level tour of the website layout and how you can find most things.
Search facilities…
Categories and Tags
You can also click on categories and see other posts in those same categories. These are higher level groups.
Tags are more specific detailed meta data for a post. Like a stock name, of specific metal covered.
Getting around…
Top menu bar offers you these shortcuts to important sections of the website:
“Latest Posts” is all the posts in descending chronological order.
“Latest Comments” groups all comments from all posts also in descending chronological order.
“Guides” is where you can get the most basic information about the website, and what we offer. You are here right now.
“Message Hub” is our forum, where members can talk to one another or ask us specific questions.
“Calendar Events” is a tool to see next upcoming events, like Masterclass courses (for Premium Plus only) and Quarterly Live Q/A. Can auto add event info in your favorite calendar tool.
“Start trading” will bring you to all our trading tools. You will find our current open trades, the heat map, live charts and more.
“Email Notification” is where you can subscribe to receive emails when posts with categories of your interests are posted. This is also where you can subscribe to get alerts for open and closed trades from the Trade Tracker.
“Chart Requests” is the area you can add your desired chart requests and see those that are already open.
“Your Favorites” is the hub to see all the posts you flagged during your website exploration.
“Learning Center” includes latest website information, video guides to website, charting tips, masterclass videos (for premium plus members) and quarterly live stream.
“Membership Tools” are for your personal account management.
Now, lets look at the landing page itself.
So other than the top menu bar, you can access the main pillars of the website on the following row.
Trading…
Many more pillar areas, but all related to actual trading.
What metrics do we monitor in our Trade Tracker
Initial Position Sizing based on “Star Rating (Entry Date)”
- 5 stars 2%
- 4 stars 1%
- 3 stars 0.5%
- 2 stars 0.25%
- 1 stars 0.25%
- Swing Trades (any stars) 0.25%
Scale in process: Possibility to add more risk % on top of a position.
- Any stars that gains a 5th star, NEW position size to fill out delta to 2%.
- We’ll create an extra row in Trade Trackers to represent new entry date, entry price, stop-loss, profit-limit for the delta in risk % added.
- We might decide NOT to add a position, and amounts of risk can vary depending on current weight of evidence.
Legend to better understand advantages vs disadvantages of each star.
Our Star Rating system based on our ‘weight of evidence’ techniques reduces bias to giving a scientific approach to chart trading.
Description of metrics tracked:
- Instrument Name – Name and link to all posts we have done for that instrument
- Ticker – TradingView format ticker so you can find this easy
- L/S – Long or Short
- Star Rating (Entry Date) – Each star represents an important milestone, each with particular advantages/disadvantages. 1 star is the wake-up, while with 5 stars you are on full throttle mode
- Risk:Reward – Risk is always 1, the value you see is the reward
- Risk % NAV – Depending on the Star Rating, we weight the risk appropriately
- Risk per 100K NAV – Amount you can lose for that trade if you respect the entry/sell-stops
- Reward per 100K NAV – Amount gains if profit limit is reached
- Pos. Size per 100K NAV – # of shares: calculation based of Risk % Nav and entry/sell-stop
- Pos. Value per 100K NAV – amount of purchase: calculated based of Risk % Nav and entry/sell-stop
- Entry Date – The exact date we entered the trade
- Entry Price – Simple, price on entry date
- Current Price – For open trades, actual price
- Distance % From Entry – For open trades, how far in % are they from the Entry Price
- Unrealized P/L – For open trades, current profits or loss if you exited right now
- Sell Stop – Set in stone
- Profit Limit – Non-greedy targets to exit with a gain (used to calculated risk vs reward ratios)
- Exit Date – Date the trade was closed
- Exit Price – Price the exit was completed
- Realized P/L per 100K NAV – Amount your Nav changed once a trade is closed
No more guesswork – an objective assessment to help inform your decision making with sound risk and money management protocols.
Notes:
- Star Rating – Identifies the best low risk, high reward entries
- Prices – Always in the currency from the country’s index
- In case of buyouts, spin offs, etc… we will use the last trading day close as our exit date and price)
- “Candidates” give members some vision of what the possible risk vs reward setups would look like IF price closes above the final breakout line , usually this is 5th star, but sometimes the 4th.
Learning Center
