Monthly Archives: October 2009

Looking at Stock Market Internals for Confirmation

While I’m no longer a stock market analyst (I’m focused on forex these days), I still keep …

Professional Forex Analyst Interview

A short while back I did an interview with one of the Content Editors (a position I …

New NFA Retail Forex Leverage Restrictions

The National Futures Association (NFA) is not well liked by many retail forex traders because of restrictions …

Using COT data to spot potential big moves

I’ve mentioned the Commitment of Traders data on a few occasions previously in terms of its usefulness …

How much do traders lose before becoming winners?

The following was posted by a trader on a forum recently. It’s a question which comes up …

New Forex Trader Network

If you trade forex and haven’t already done so, you should check out Currensee, which is a …

I don’t use stops. What do you think?

I got the question in the title of this post from a “fan” of The Essentials of …

System Back-Testing and Indicative Forex Data

Frequent emailer and commenter Rod sent me another good question yesterday, on the subject of trading system …

When Black Monday comes…

A slight twist on a Steely Dan tune there. It might seem like I’m dating myself a bit with …

Avoiding a Covered Call Being Called

A former classmate of mine from my undergraduate days (he and I were officers for the Finance …

RMAM

Book Review: Reading Minds and Markets

Primarily about asset allocation – picking the best place(s) to put money to work

TF

Book Review: Trend Following

An indepth study of a trading philosophy

EFET

Book Review: Essentials of Foreign Exchange Trading

A pretty good basic overview and description of the retail forex market

Screwed by his forex broker

The following rant was posted in a forum by a clearly frustrated forex trader claiming his broker …

Taking the Trader Positioning Data to the Next Level

Note: This is a cross-post. It was initially put up on the Currensee blog. The Commodity Futures …