Monthly Archives: October 2008

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Book Review: Fooled by Randomness

People are fooled into believing what is random has meaningful causality

Leading Indicators vs. Lagging Indicators

A question came up recently on the Trade2Win forum about what indicators are leading and what are …

How come you don’t just start trading full time?

How come you don’t just start trading full time? Wouldn’t it be more lucrative then working the …

Where can I get intraday forex data?

Here’s another question (or rather pair of questions) about forex data. I am in need of some …

Do you manage money?

A reader by the name of Mike asked me the other day whether I manage money. The …

A few interesting and worthwile trading and finance resources

It’s another crazy day in the markets today, so let me take some time out to offer …

Where should Fibonacci Lines be drawn from?

Here is one of the more detailed and specific trader questions I’ve gotten in a while. John, …

Where can I find this forex data?

A reader by the name of Tom submitted the following question about forex and related market data.   …

Trading with Elliott Wave, does it work?

Here’s good question that came in from a trader over the weekend. hi john, something that i’m currently …

Something to check out: StockTwits

Howard Lindzon, a hedge fund manager, has been involved in developing a new project called StockTwits. To …

Backtesting isn’t just about evaluating a trading system

Trading via technical analysis is mainly an effort in pattern recognition. Evaluating the price action on a chart …

Is it unreasonable to expect that rate of return in my trading?

A reader by the name of Kevin brings up a question that I know a lot of …

Why were you in that trade?

I want to ask a question of those who are trading the S&P futures. Since the audience …

Traders as Investors

Traders and investors – however you want to define those two groups – don’t often see eye …

Once you’ve suffered a huge trading drawdown, how do you recover?

I imagine this question is one that more than a few traders are struggling with at the …

Where do I put my stops to avoid being taken out?

This trader inquiry was in my email inbox this morning: I would like to know where to put my …

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Book Review: Financial Shock, by Mark Zandi

A look back at the causes and drivers of the financial crisis

What does it mean to drain reserves from the short term money markets?

A member of the Trade2Win forum asked the following based on something he saw in the Financial …