Larry Williams And The OOPS Signal

Larry Williams published a description of a short-term trading method in 1979, a valuable one that is based on a pattern observed often in markets. The methodology was presented in his book, How I Made One Million Dollars Trading Commodities. It is still used by many traders with varying adaptations. The OOPS signal is a gap trading method that fades the direction of the opening gap. It is named thus, according to Williams, because when a broker would report to his clients that they were stopped out, he would call them and say, “Oops, we lost.” Read the rest of this entry »