Archive for the 'Trading Discipline' 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 [...]

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 [...]

Three Ideas for a Flat-Lining Market

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

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 [...]

Yes II We Know and Stop Wasting Paper!

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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 [...]