Archive for the 'Journal Entry' Category
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 defending [...]
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
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
In 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 nothing but the supply demand equation [...]
January 17th, 2011 | Posted in Bearish Looks, Behavioral Finance, China Stocks, CLEAN Tech, Commodities, Discretionary Traders, Economy, Emerging Markets, Energy Stocks, Financial Sector, Geo Political Re-posts, global macro, Home Builders, Journal Entry, Market Neutral, Politics, Proprietary Trading, Technical Analysis, Trading Discipline | Comments Off
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, you need someone with highly specialized skill [...]
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
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
With all of the clutter and insanity due to groups turning into recruiting grounds and advertising forums for esoteric and mindless products, I was compelled to launch my own LinkedIn Group which is being emphatically embraced by the systematic and discretionary proprietary trading universe, to my delight. I know many of you are Prop. Traders, [...]
September 16th, 2009 | Posted in Algorithm Development, Art, Bearish Looks, Behavioral Finance, Biotech, China Stocks, Commodities, Discretionary Traders, Economy, Emerging Markets, Energy Stocks, Ethanol, Financial Sector, global macro, Google, Hedge Funds, Home Builders, Journal Entry, Metals & Mining, Microsoft, Politics, Proprietary Trading, Semiconductors, SEO, Social Media Marketing, Tech Stocks, Technical Analysis, Technology, Trade Ideas, Trading Discipline, Web 2.0, Yahoo! | Comments Off
Game Plan – Market following “yields”. Watch 5 and 10y yields. Technician’s waiting for “right shoulder” will be left behind. Watch for start of retracement to test long-term support and confirm recent bottoms, but maintain bullish view until reversals are in. Campaign – Most “Doji’s” negated. Dow INDU target 8940-9000. 8350 support. DJINET trg= 90. [...]
May 10th, 2009 | Posted in China Stocks, Financial Sector, Journal Entry, Trade Ideas | Comments Off