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Revisit Old Trading Notes to Learn From

Try Match.com – One Week Free 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 [...]

A Trader’s Diary from 2006 to the Present

Magazineline.com 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 [...]

Three Ideas for a Flat-Lining Market

Magazineline.com 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 [...]

Commodities-Emerging-Frontier-Global Macro Markets and Analysis

Try Match.com – One Week Free 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 [...]

CME and US Stocks in General

Free 10GB Photo Storage in the Cloud If you look at a chart of CME from late ’08 to the present, you’ll notice it’s gone into a flat-line, just like much of the US equity market. GOOG ended the year right where it started. BIDU (amazing split on the year) and APPL kicked ass because [...]

Bearish Macro Signals and Muni Bonds

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 [...]

Easiest Trading Week of the Year Ahead

Magazineline.com There is a noticeable positive seasonal bias surrounding the Christmas holiday and this will keep stocks elevated and maybe even convince some end of year bonuses to go into the market via the mainstream mutual funds. So expect the Nas 100 to move higher in anticipation of a hard and fast sell-off on the [...]