Archive for the 'Trading Discipline' Category
Try Match.com – One Week Free I’ve been dying to release this post since Monday of last week when CXLT was trading at 25 cents but I refrained for a number of reasons. In order not to breach my obligations to one of my site syndicates, this is all I’m going to say. Groupon and [...]
July 9th, 2011 | Posted in Behavioral Finance, Bulletin Board, Metals & Mining, Proprietary Trading, Trade Ideas, Trading Discipline | Comments Off
Magazineline.com Let’s look at Skype’s acquisition by Microsoft 10, 20, even 50 years from now. The first thing I noticed was the cancellation of: “Skype Me Now” Moreover, Skype remains downloadable for Android regardless of the acquisition and iPhone is still on the boards as well. No proprietary moves thus far but it’s the top [...]
June 25th, 2011 | Posted in Behavioral Finance, global macro, Google, Microsoft, Politics, Proprietary Trading, SEO, Social Media Marketing, Tech Stocks, Technology, Telecommunications, Trade Ideas, Trading Discipline, Web 3.0, Yahoo! | Comments Off
Free 10GB Photo Storage in the Cloud Here’s an excerpt of a Skype conversation with a friend in Russia, clueless as to what I’m even talking about, but perfect oratory for blogging off topic for once, non market chatter, only about the catastrophe that just occurred. I’m upset the LA Lakers were beaten 4 games [...]
May 9th, 2011 | Posted in Ethanol, Financial Sector, Geo Political Re-posts, Geo-Political Danger, global macro, Google, Hedge Funds, Journal Entry, Market Neutral, Politics, Proprietary Trading, Trade Ideas, Trading Discipline | Comments Off
Try Match.com – One Week Free To become better traders, we look to our historical notes on crucial dates. This write-up revisits a post from April 20th, 2010 entitled “Global Financial Panic or Major Buying Opportunity in Stocks”. Most trades involved familiar companies and their trading patterns. Others came from scanning IBD’s Top 100 List during [...]
March 6th, 2011 | Posted in Algorithm Development, Behavioral Finance, China Stocks, Discretionary Traders, Financial Sector, Geo Political Re-posts, global macro, Hedge Funds, Journal Entry, Proprietary Trading, Technical Analysis, Trade Ideas, Trading Discipline | Comments Off
Financial stocks in the stock market presenting major buying opportunities but risk is high so trading sizes should be reduced significantly and long term positions built up over time. Exploit the volatility.
February 27th, 2011 | Posted in Bearish Looks, Economy, Financial Sector, Hedge Funds, Trade Ideas, Trading Discipline | Comments Off
Try Match.com – One Week Free In 2006, there were those of us who knew, like we did in 2000, that something was wrong. It wasn’t because we were “in the know”, rather because we could recognize and think we know how to read a chart, like we actually did back then. What mattered was [...]
January 17th, 2011 | Posted in Bearish Looks, Behavioral Finance, China Stocks, CLEAN Tech, Commodities, Discretionary Traders, Economy, Emerging Markets, Energy Stocks, Financial Sector, Geo Political Re-posts, global macro, Home Builders, Journal Entry, Market Neutral, Politics, Proprietary Trading, Technical Analysis, Trading Discipline | Comments Off
Magazineline.com I am always a student of market theory which is dynamic and highly behavioral due to present micro-structure of US markets and the behavior of algorithms, some of which are predatory, others passive, and others just gathering intelligence by searching for natural size. When volatility and correlations spike, you need someone with highly specialized [...]
January 13th, 2011 | Posted in Behavioral Finance, Commodities, Discretionary Traders, Economy, Emerging Markets, global macro, Google, Hedge Funds, Journal Entry, Market Neutral, Politics, Technical Analysis, Trade Ideas, Trading Discipline | Comments Off