Archive for the 'Hedge Funds' Category
Magazineline.com Here’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 zero while they were the [...]
May 9th, 2011 | Posted in Ethanol, Financial Sector, Geo Political Re-posts, Geo-Political Danger, global macro, Google, Hedge Funds, Journal Entry, Market Neutral, Politics, Proprietary Trading, Trade Ideas, Trading Discipline | Comments Off
Magazineline.com 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 [...]
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
Financial stocks in the stock market presenting major buying opportunities but risk is high so trading sizes should be reduced significantly and long term positions built up over time. Exploit the volatility.
February 27th, 2011 | Posted in Bearish Looks, Economy, Financial Sector, Hedge Funds, Trade Ideas, Trading Discipline | Comments Off
Free 10GB Photo Storage in the Cloud I am always a student of market theory which is dynamic and highly behavioral due to present micro-structure of US markets and the behavior of algorithms, some of which are predatory, others passive, and others just gathering intelligence by searching for natural size. When volatility and correlations spike, [...]
January 13th, 2011 | Posted in Behavioral Finance, Commodities, Discretionary Traders, Economy, Emerging Markets, global macro, Google, Hedge Funds, Journal Entry, Market Neutral, Politics, Technical Analysis, Trade Ideas, Trading Discipline | Comments Off
Magazineline.com 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 [...]
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
Free 10GB Photo Storage in the Cloud 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 [...]
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
Try Match.com – One Week Free 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 [...]
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