Jake Morrison
Market Structure & Technicals Editor
Pen name used for the alphactor.ai editorial team.
Jake writes about price action, volume profile, regime detection, options flow, and what market microstructure actually tells you about who is buying. Publishes under a pen name on behalf of the alphactor.ai editorial team.
Background
- Spent years staring at order books
- Focus: technicals, volume profile, regime + volatility
- Skeptic of pattern-only analysis
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Posts by Jake Morrison (25)
- Advanced Chart Analytics: Autocorrelation, Seasonality, and the Subtle Patterns
April 18, 2026 · 7 min read
- Chart Benchmark: Relative Strength Is Where the Alpha Lives
April 18, 2026 · 8 min read
- Market Regime on the Chart: Plotting When the Tape Actually Changed
April 18, 2026 · 7 min read
- News Annotations on the Chart: Tying Headlines to the Tape
April 18, 2026 · 7 min read
- Dark Pool Prints: What Off-Exchange Volume Reveals About Institutional Positioning
April 18, 2026 · 2 min read
- Dashboard Movers: Catching Unusual Moves Before They're Old
April 18, 2026 · 2 min read
- Gamma Exposure (GEX): How Dealer Hedging Shapes Every Move
April 18, 2026 · 7 min read
- IV Rank, IV Percentile, and Skew: The Three Numbers That Price Every Option
April 18, 2026 · 7 min read
- Open Interest Magnets: Where Price Wants to Pin Into Expiration
April 18, 2026 · 2 min read
- Unusual Options Activity: Reading Smart-Money Flow Before the Move
April 18, 2026 · 2 min read
- WallStreetBets Mention History: Retail Attention as a Fade or Follow Signal
April 18, 2026 · 6 min read
- What the Options Market Tells You About Stock Direction
January 26, 2026 · 4 min read
- Support and Resistance: Why Your Lines Are Probably in the Wrong Place
May 23, 2025 · 5 min read
- The 5 Candlestick Patterns That Actually Have Statistical Edge
May 19, 2025 · 4 min read
- Why Stacking 5 Indicators on Your Chart Is Making You Worse
May 11, 2025 · 4 min read
- Fibonacci Retracements: Useful Tool or Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?
May 7, 2025 · 4 min read
- Ichimoku Cloud: It Looks Complicated Because It Is (But Here's What Matters)
May 3, 2025 · 4 min read
- VWAP: The Institutional Benchmark Retail Traders Overlook
April 29, 2025 · 4 min read
- On-Balance Volume: The Simplest Way to Spot Accumulation
April 21, 2025 · 4 min read
- Volume Profile: Finding Where the Real Support and Resistance Lives
April 17, 2025 · 4 min read
- Stochastic Oscillator: When It Works and When to Ignore It
April 13, 2025 · 4 min read
- ATR for Position Sizing: The One Indicator Every Trader Should Use
April 9, 2025 · 4 min read
- SMA vs EMA vs WMA: Which Moving Average Actually Matters
April 5, 2025 · 4 min read
- MACD Beyond Crossovers: What the Histogram Actually Tells You
March 28, 2025 · 4 min read
- RSI: The Most Misused Indicator in Retail Trading
March 24, 2025 · 4 min read