Archive for the 'Trading Discipline' Category
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 [...]
January 4th, 2011 | Posted in Algorithm Development, Bearish Looks, Behavioral Finance, Commodities, Discretionary Traders, Economy, Emerging Markets, Energy Stocks, Geo Political Re-posts, global macro, Hedge Funds, Market Neutral, Politics, Proprietary Trading, Social Media Marketing, Technical Analysis, Technology, Trading Discipline | Comments Off
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 [...]
November 28th, 2010 | Posted in global macro, Politics, Proprietary Trading, Trading Discipline | Comments Off
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
September 6th, 2010 | Posted in Behavioral Finance, Trading Discipline | Comments Off
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.
September 5th, 2010 | Posted in China Stocks, Economy, Energy Stocks, Hedge Funds, Trade Ideas, Trading Discipline | Comments Off
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, [...]
March 2nd, 2009 | Posted in Technical Analysis, Trading Discipline | Comments Off
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. [...]
February 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Home Builders, Journal Entry, Trading Discipline | Comments Off