Category: News & Updates

News, announcements, and updates of information, upcoming events and other items that are generally of more immediate interest.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Update Digest for Week of 2011-12-24

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Facebook/Twitter Updates for 2011-11-11 Week

If you made 1% or better last month you outperformed the hedge funds. http://t.co/2XRaFQN6 # Maintaining a …

Sometimes it helps to circle back around

Looking at some “fundamental truths” and considering the value of revisiting old readings as you develop as a trader.

On demo trading and trading contests

There’s a post on one of the BabyPips blogs today about how you can take demo trading …

Anyone attending the World Money Show in London?

I’m going to be over in the UK next month on a trip that happens to coincide …

Improving site speed and performance

For a while now I haven’t been happy with the performance of this blog, particularly in terms …

Back from the world of Academia

I’m back in the real world again today after having attended my first academic conference last week. …

Going academic next week

Next week I’m attending a conference in L.A. I’ve been to conferences before, of course, but this …

Trade2Win Trading FAQs book now available

The new edition of my Trading FAQ book is now available. This new edition has been something …

One Week to the New FAQ Book Edition

Last year I completed work on a book titled New Trader FAQs. It’s a book in which …

What should my next trading book be about?

I’m thinking about writing a new trading book. It’s been a while since I’ve done that. was …

Beating up on another journalist, and a professor too

Dave from Currensee wrote a post on the blog there the other day addressing a Reuters blog …

Interesting Trading and Market Links from June

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

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 …

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 …

A very pleasant surprise

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

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 …

Updating Progress on my 2011 Plans

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

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 …

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 …

Interesting Trading and Market Links from December

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

Kicking Off a More Active 2011!

This tends to be the time of year bloggers and the like offer up their resolutions for …

Live Webcast of My Futures & Forex Expo Presentation

Improving Your Trading Performance Using Forex Calendar Patterns Saturday, September 25 10:30 am – 11:30 am PDT …

My appearance at next week’s Futures & Forex Expo

Regarding my appearance at the Futures & Forex Expo next week: Futures and forex have emerged as …

Some Trading Links and Observations

I’ve gone off on a rant about poor market analysis before (see this post, and this follow-up), …

Making sure you’re up to date

If you haven’t been following the updates on the Facebook page or via Twitter (Why not!?) there have …

Looking Back on a Good 2009

I realize I’m doing this a little bit early, but I’ve got a lot of work to …

Reached the 1000 Feed Subscriber Mark!

A milestone was just reached for this blog. The number of RSS feed subscribers has finally cracked …

Back from the Traders Expo

I’m back in to the swing of things once more after my trip to Los Angeles (Pasadena, …

Three Years Gone, But Just the Start

Time is definitely a funny thing. It was three years ago today that Wiley officially released my …

Are People Really This Dense? Don’t Answer That!

I have to share something with you that made me laugh. It’s an email I received from …

Looking forward to the new year

Welcome to 2009! If last year wasn’t a great one for you, then I hope this one …

Catching up after a bad long weekend

I’ve been a bit under the weather of late, so I’m in catch-up mode when it comes …

Why I do this trading education thing

I’m going to share with you today a two stories that comes from my volleyball coaching which I think …

Don’t be that guy

I want to make a statement about comment posting. First of all, I always encourage readers to comment …