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Update Digest for Week of 2012-02-04

Updates from the past week shared via Facebook and Twitter: Further evidence that the field of Behavioral …

Update Digest for Week of 2012-01-28

Updates from the past week shared via Facebook and Twitter: I’ve mentioned attending a Behavioral Finance conference …

The Primary Trade Size Forumla

Position sizing is something that comes up ALL THE TIME in the discussions among new and developing …

Update Digest for Week of 2012-01-21

Updates from the past week shared via Facebook and Twitter: Greed is the Flip Side of Fear …

Optimize trading performance by time of day selection

Yesterday I shared a link via Facebook and Twitter to an article on the DailyFX site which …

If a system works why share it with the world?

A member of the BabyPips forum asked the other day “If a system works why share it …

What do you trade and why?

A question came up on Trade2Win recently on a new thread. It asked the question of the …

Update Digest for Week of 2012-01-14

Why it always makes sense to understand how the ETFs you trade are backed. Careful with the …

Twenty-four Hour Forex Volume Distribution

The question of volume in the forex market is a common one seeing as there is no …

Trader looking for angel investors

A recent site visitor sent me a question via the contact form. It brings up something I’m …

BandH

Book Review: Buy and Hedge

If you are a stock market trader/investor, this book is worth reading to gain perspective on how you can reduce the volatility of your returns.

Update Digest for Week of 2012-01-07

This week’s postings to Facebook and Twitter. Top Trading Reads from 2011: In case you have an …

Has trading ever made you physically ill?

If you’ve been in the markets as long as I’ve been you’re bound to have a collection …

Trading currency crosses direct or through the legs

The following question came in from one of my newsletter subscribers the other day. It asks about …

Top Trading Reads from 2011

In case you have an Amazon or Barnes & Noble gift card burning a hole in your …

Update Digest for Week of 2011-12-31

What didn’t you get that you wanted?: I’ve been thinking about doing some fun stuff with my …

The Best of the Essentials of Trading in 2011

The year 2011 is just about over. This will be my last post to the blog, so …

Thin holiday markets and new year volume pick-up

The following two questions came in from one of my newsletter subscribers in regards to comments I …

What didn’t you get that you wanted?

I’ve been thinking about doing some fun stuff with my newsletter subscribers by way of contests and …

A little quiz on trading returns

A book I’m currently reading (which will be reviewed later) presents a set of choices to the …

Update Digest for Week of 2011-12-24

When Do Trading Frictions Increase Liquidity? – Liberty Street Economics Read here Knowledge does not equate to …

All I want for Christmas….

Is a new logo for the website. If you haven’t already done so, I’d love to get …

OTW

Book Review: The Option Trader’s Workbook

This book could give you a good working knowledge of options trading and strategies, but you need to be ready to put in the effort.

I have access to forex volume data!

And you don’t! We’re working on something in the office whereby we get access to volume data …

Gauging trading performance

There’s a recent post from the SMB blog that brings up an issue a lot of traders …

Traders can do what athletes can’t

There’s a post on one of the BabyPips blogs which discusses the comparisons between elite athletes and …

Update Digest for Week of 2011-12-17

Forex broker arbitrage: There’s been a new “automatic profits” systems launched recently (and I think you know …

Spreading the holiday cheer

Barry Ritholtz posted his holiday shopping list for traders last evening. There are some good items included …

Falling market on falling volume

I was taking a look at the monthly chart for the Shanghai Composite Index this morning and …

Happy Birthday!

Birthday wishes all around! OK. Originally I was only going to be wishing myself happy birthday here …

Forex broker arbitrage

There’s been a new “automatic profits” systems launched recently (and I think you know how I feel …

Update Digest for Week of 2011-12-10

Getting sucked in by easy, automated trading: A poster on the BabyPips forum decided to share some …

Something BIG is coming next week

Each year on my birthday I like to do something special for members of my mailing list. …

The new trader system loop

A poster at Trade2win started a discussion recently which I think is very worth addressing here. It …

Picking the right indicator(s)

This question came in the other day from a developing trader on the subject of technical indicators. …

Relaxing, not blowing up, and always learning

In this post I’m going to continue addressing points made by a new trader posting on the …

Getting sucked in by easy, automated trading

A poster on the BabyPips forum decided to share some of their experience as a developing trader. …

Update Digest for Week of 2011-12-03

Where can I find a mentor?: I came across this post on one of the trading forums …

Sign-up for the new newsletter

On Monday I sent out the first Essentials of Trading email newsletter to subscribers. If you aren’t …

So you want to mirror my trades?

I had the following come through from a reader the other day inquiring about automatically mirroring my …

Questions answered by a behavioral Nobel laureate

Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky are largely considered the forerunners of the field of Behavior Finance. They …

Reader question on trading opening gaps

A site visitor recently submitted this question: Hi, Can you please tell me if it is possible …

Where can I find a mentor?

Wondering about coaching, mentoring, and the value of traders being able to come together and talk.

Update Digest for Week of 2011-11-26

Question for you on digital media length: I asked this question of my mailing list members the …

Vague requests for trading advice

Vague requests for trading advice are both useless and indications that the trader is falling short in thinking about his trading.

Blog headline complaint

I have to rant. A couple of recent blog post headlines touched on a sore spot with …

CANSLIM and market trend

Someone asks whether it’s important to factor current market trend into the CANSLIM stock trading strategy.

Question for you on digital media length

I asked this question of my mailing list members the other day, but I wanted to it …

Update Digest for Week of 2011-11-19

One trading forum post, numerous trader mistakes: The following is a post I came across on a …