Blog Archives

Moderating a QE2 panel on Thursday

Currensee has asked me to moderate a panel discussion on the subject of the end of the …

New site look and feel

For the last few months I have been working behind the scenes with a development group to …

Interesting Trading and Market Links from May

I follow a large number of trading/markets related blogs and websites. When I find stuff I think …

Stock Traders – Oblivious or Stupid?

After hearing yet another professional stock guy on CNBC mention QE3 like it was still a real …

What’s going on with volatility?

Yesterday Michael Covel posted a reader question on his blog: “As i am going through my different …

Looking at 15 Trading Rules

The following 15 trading rules were posted by zentrader.ca having been taking from Trend TV. While I …

Which is leading – the Dollar or Oil?

I finally snapped. Yesterday, after days of listening to the equity-oriented reporters and commentators on CNBC yammer …

Investing with Volume Analysis

Book Review: Investing with Volume Analysis

Learn just about everything there is to know about incorporating volume in your trading or investing

Interesting Trading and Market Links from April

I follow a large number of trading/markets related blogs and websites. When I find stuff I think …

Bernanke’s view on inflation, I think

Fed Chief Ben Bernanke did his first post-FOMC press conference yesterday. Predictably, he got a question about …

Looking at 97 Trading Mistakes

There’s a post up on the Winner’s Trading Edge site that proports to list the 97 top …

A very pleasant surprise

I had a nice little surprise this morning when I was checking out my personal finances. My …

TtheT

Book Review: Trade the Trader

This book suggests that applying basic technical analysis methods is no longer sufficient

NOW

Book Review: Nerds on Wall Street

A pretty expansive look at the history of computerized methods applied in the financial markets.

Volatility Changes Across Markets

A recent blog post got me thinking about where volatility stands now compared to where it’s been. …

TonCEN

Book Review: Trading on Corporate Earnings News

Stock market traders will definitely want to pick up a copy of this book!

Interesting Trading and Market Links from March

I follow a large number of trading/markets related blogs and websites. When I find stuff I think …

Seasonals Trading System Performance Q1 2011

As promised, here’s a look at the performance of the trading system I’ve been running based on …

Some Numbers on Stock Market Earnings Reactions

I’m reading a book on trading based on company earnings announcements at the moment. I’ll post a …

Updating Progress on my 2011 Plans

It occured to me yesterday that it’s worth looking back at the things I wrote about at …

My Amazing Recent Trading System Results

I was just taking a look at my Currensee profile to see how my forex seasonals trading strategies …

A Trader’s Epiphany

A regular poster on Baby Pips recently went through a financial advisory training course. My initial reaction …

Be Sure to Diversify Your Life

The Financial Blogger posted Wednesday that he doesn’t believe in burnout. Ironically, even though he claims burnout doesn’t …

Algo traders unfairly blamed for volatility

This was a Reuters story on Wednesday.     BOCA RATON, Fla., March 16 (Reuters) – High-frequency traders …

Using Secondary Indications in Your Market Analysis

Yesterday Adam at Forex Blog put up a blog post looking at the British Pound, specifically in …

Looking at Stocks vs. Currencies

In doing some research for a short work on investing in the foreign exchange market I was …

Non-Arguments Against Fundamental Analysis

I’m going to join Adam from Forex Blog in taking on a post at Counting Pips titled …

PwICO

Book Review: Profiting With Condor Options

Condor option strategies have become popular and this book takes a look.

Video Review: Wall Street – Money Never Sleeps

Over the weekend I finally got around to watching Wall Street – Money Never Sleeps, the sequel to …

Quick and Dirty Position Sizing Rule for Traders

There’s all kinds of discussion and advice about how much risk should be taken on a trade-by-trade …

Interesting Trading and Market Links from Febuary

I follow a large number of trading/markets related blogs and websites. When I find stuff I think …

New Players Make Forex More Competitive

The analysts at Citi and I are not the only ones thinking about the future of the …

Using Daily or Weekly Trading Goals

Day traders usually talk about their daily and weekly goals. Someone told me that this is typical …

A Few Bits of Trading and Market Wisdom

At the beginning of the year, Barry Ritholtz published a list of Market Truisms and Axioms from Arthur …

Investing in forex

I’ve been working on a short article that will likely end up on a Reuters blog at …

Comparing Your Trading to the Alternatives

I wrote the original version of this for the Currensee blog, but it has a broad based focus, …

TGD

Book Review: The Great Deleveraging

Discussion, data, and analysis of economic and stock market patterns

Competition, Regulation Hitting Forex Brokers?

Apparently, the analysts at Citi have their concerns about the earnings prospects of the major forex retail …

Noise Trading

One of the more interesting topics I’ve come across in my delving into research in the area of …

Influences on Price/Earnings Ratios

The Price/Earnings ratio (P/E) is a metric commonly used in fundamental analysis of stocks – both individually …

Positive Points, Negative Profits

A subject of conversation in the blogosphere in recent weeks has been the idea that you can …

Taxes and Cutting Your Losers

I’ve been doing quite a bit of reading on the subject of Behavioral Finance of late (and …

The Cost of Trading

Last week I wrote a post for the Currensee blog addressing a recent SmartMoney article attacking forex …

Top Factors Influencing Exchange Rates

During my usual roaming around the web I came across an entry from Oanda titled Top 5 Factors …

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Book Review: Capital Offense

Focused on the array of personalities in and around the financial crisis.

Video Review: Mind Over Money

The other day I watched the PBS documentary Mind Over Money (which is available streaming for Netflix subscribers). …

Forex Trading Volume Still Rising

Reports on trading volume in the North American and London markets were released on Monday. They show …

Interesting Trading and Market Links from January

I follow a large number of trading/markets related blogs and websites. When I find stuff I think …

Ever Increasing Volatility in Forex

I came across a post in one of the groups on LinkedIn in which the author described …

Is the Forex Market Too Big to Manipulate?

One of the readers at Forex Live asked the question: “What would you say about the FX market …