Archive for the 'Geo Political Re-posts' Category

Lakers Embarrass While Bynum Brings Shame

Free 10GB Photo Storage in the CloudHere’s an excerpt of a Skype conversation with a friend in Russia, clueless as to what I’m even talking about, but perfect oratory for blogging off topic for once, non market chatter, only about the catastrophe that just occurred. I’m upset the LA Lakers were beaten 4 games to [...]

Iraq, Iran and Surging Oil Prices

Free 10GB Photo Storage in the CloudBy George Friedman The United States told the Iraqi government last week that if it wants U.S. troops to remain in Iraq beyond the deadline of Dec. 31, 2011, as stipulated by the current Status of Forces Agreement between Washington and Baghdad, it would have to inform the United [...]

Revisit Old Trading Notes to Learn From

Free 10GB Photo Storage in the CloudTo 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 [...]

A Trader’s Diary from 2006 to the Present

Free 10GB Photo Storage in the CloudIn 2006, there were those of us who knew, like we did in 2000, that something was wrong. It wasn’t because we were “in the know”, rather because we could recognize and think we know how to read a chart, like we actually did back then. What mattered was [...]

Commodities-Emerging-Frontier-Global Macro Markets and Analysis

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 [...]

Help Investment Capitalist Cover Costs

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 [...]

Large Funds See Withdrawals, Small sub-$1bb Funds Gaining Sticky Money

The article written below was published on Institutional Investor’s Web Site. Here’s a LINK to the original . The past 4 years of my life, the Social Sigma (i.e Standard Deviation) has been positively correlated in both my personal as well as my professional life. To the literal teenie. You know what I mean, it [...]