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Invitation to Join Proprietary Traders Wordlwide

MarketWizard — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 08:16:57 +0000

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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, [...]

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Lakers Embarrass While Bynum Brings Shame

MarketWizard — Mon, 09 May 2011 04:53:14 +0000

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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 [...]

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Revisit Old Trading Notes to Learn From

MarketWizard — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 07:56:37 +0000

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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% [...]

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A Trader’s Diary from 2006 to the Present

MarketWizard — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 18:04:35 +0000

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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 [...]

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Three Ideas for a Flat-Lining Market

MarketWizard — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 01:58:02 +0000

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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 [...]

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