Archive for the 'Algorithm Development' Category
On March 19th, 2008, I made a little long term play when I called the bottom of the market at the very time and price right here on the blog, with a few well-timed follow ups, like this one. By the time we posted this article about the 11 top financial stocks to own for [...]
August 28th, 2011 | Posted in Algorithm Development, Behavioral Finance, Discretionary Traders, Economy, Emerging Markets, global macro, Hedge Funds, Market Neutral, Politics, Proprietary Trading, Trading Discipline | Comments Off
Increase Your Returns with the New Ava AutoTrader Dear Investment Capitalist, We are please to announce a partnership with AvaFX to welcome you to the new Ava Auto Trader (AAT) Platform. AAT is a revolutionary platform that allows you to automate strategies on the fly, in real time as opportunities present themselves. They’ve cut [...]
July 17th, 2011 | Posted in Algorithm Development, Discretionary Traders, Forex Trading, Proprietary Trading, Technology, Trade Ideas, Trading Platforms | Comments Off
*IMPORTANT Point of Clarification: Lightspeed has not purchased Assent, but rather has licensed The Anvil platform, which will continue to be available to customers. The press release actually crossed the wire this morning and can be found on multiple news outlets, or you can read it below: Lightspeed Financial Acquires Exclusive License to Operate Anvil [...]
June 24th, 2011 | Posted in Algorithm Development, Discretionary Traders, Proprietary Trading, Technology | Comments Off
To become better traders, we look to our historical notes on crucial dates. This write-up revisits a post from April 20th, 2010 entitled “Global Financial Panic or Major Buying Opportunity in Stocks”. Most trades involved familiar companies and their trading patterns. Others came from scanning IBD’s Top 100 List during the panic, running the top 25% [...]
March 6th, 2011 | Posted in Algorithm Development, Behavioral Finance, China Stocks, Discretionary Traders, Financial Sector, Geo Political Re-posts, global macro, Hedge Funds, Journal Entry, Proprietary Trading, Technical Analysis, Trade Ideas, Trading Discipline | Comments Off
Did I mention the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) which has had one of my laptops in a loop for 10 days? Today, I saw something quite extraordinary yet obvious: the importance of being in the right market at the right time. Regardless of where or what that market is. For example, in the old [...]
January 4th, 2011 | Posted in Algorithm Development, Bearish Looks, Behavioral Finance, Commodities, Discretionary Traders, Economy, Emerging Markets, Energy Stocks, Geo Political Re-posts, global macro, Hedge Funds, Market Neutral, Politics, Proprietary Trading, Social Media Marketing, Technical Analysis, Technology, Trading Discipline | Comments Off
A bunch of friends whined about my posts being infrequent lately (because there’s nothing to talk about, nor observations to insult your intelligence with other than how the weather in NY and frigid markets in 2011 are somehow linked, as some “live” retail research shops have written). Or my dialogue was too coded and fragmented. [...]
January 2nd, 2011 | Posted in Algorithm Development, Bearish Looks, Behavioral Finance, China Stocks, Commodities, Discretionary Traders, Economy, global macro, Hedge Funds, Proprietary Trading, Technical Analysis | Comments Off
It’s not free running a free blog, much less something like a Proprietary Trading site based on Global Macro financial research. Every reader knows that they get something out of the site and for each reader it’s unique. Some like the geo-political twists, some purview based on Quantitative Global financial research. While most of you [...]
November 20th, 2010 | Posted in Algorithm Development, Art, Bearish Looks, Behavioral Finance, Biotech, China Stocks, Commodities, Contribute, Discretionary Traders, Economy, Emerging Markets, Energy Stocks, Ethanol, Financial Sector, Geo Political Re-posts, global macro, Google, Hedge Funds, Home Builders, Journal Entry, Market Neutral, Metals & Mining, Microsoft, Politics, Proprietary Trading, Semiconductors, SEO, Social Media Marketing, Tech Stocks, Technical Analysis, Technology, Trade Ideas, Trading Discipline, Uncategorized, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, Yahoo! | Comments Off