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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 [...]

Yes II We Know and Stop Wasting Paper!

Magazineline.com Our good friends over at Institutional Investor sent out their recent print magazine to the 250,000 subscribers that don’t want it, saying what’s been said over and over and over: Prop Trading has gone underground. Some in a coffin. Other’s quite successfully. I was listening to an old female trader friend of mine and [...]

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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 [...]

Trading, Finance and The Ego

Free 10GB Photo Storage in the Cloud The ego is a particularly strong component of the human mind and we are naturally prone to certain egocentric tendencies. All traders and investors must work to understand these tendencies: Egocentric memory: the natural tendency to forget evidence and information which does not support our thinking and to [...]

Global Financial Panic or Major Buying Opportunity in Stocks?

Remember, it’s times like these when fortunes are made. Contrarian traders have to buy when most market participants think their stocks are going to be worthless, and sell when these participants think they’ve missed the boat. Now is the time for the former so get your buy orders ready, and let’s make some money.

Using TRIN for Intraday Trading

Try Match.com – One Week Free What is the TRIN? Richard Arms developed Arms index, which is better known as the NYSE Short Term Trading Index. The indicator is used in a contrarian manner to detect overbought and oversold levels. The indicators calculation creates an inverse relationship with the market. In the most basic analysis, [...]

Trading Journal Excerpt for Feb 23

Try Match.com – One Week Free Game Plan – VOLUME EXHAUSTION BARS IN FINANCIAL STOCKS. Campaign – Position trade 2nd tier financial names. Continue to focus on gold stocks and buy on dips, sell into rallies. PRIORITY- Volume climax in financial names. Short-term trend exhaustion. Dow recovery of 7450 level short term reversal in progress. [...]