I had some friends come by to pay me a visit not too long ago and to much of their surprise, found my discretionary systems alongside another that runs strictly on basic velocity and acceleration prin...
Feb 09, 2012
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It never seems to shock us how few people have even a deep simple understanding of the market in which they are trading. When it comes to the FX market, retail investors are at the bottom of the barre...
Jan 24, 2012
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There always seems to be a severe disconnect in terms of expected news events and the manner in which people actually trade it. I see it happen over and over again, and yet I can’t help but scra...
Jan 23, 2012
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Organization is something I have consistently noticed lacking by many traders I have met over the years. Not that it should come to much surprise, but people tend to want to just push the pedal to t...
Jan 03, 2012
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I was just about to close shop for the day and instead ended up having a conversation with a good friend of the site. We discussed quite a few things that happened today, and most of them are highli...
Nov 23, 2011
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Video Notes:
Context of the spike is by far the most relevant – every spike is unique and understanding the market’s common reaction to like-events is most crucial
Fibs used as a guide onl...
Nov 08, 2011
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I’ve said it a million times on this site:
“Analysts are not traders, they are publishers. They are forced to perform on a daily basis and release information regardless of market conditi...
Nov 03, 2011
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For EUR/USD to shoot up over 3 handles in a trading day isn’t just any kind of normal coincidence….here’s the gist:
This chart overlays the now-dead Greek CDS over EUR/USD for the pa...
Oct 27, 2011
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There is nothing more relevant to the movement of any market than the human element.
A large pool of thought exists behind simple “fundamentals”, “technicals”, and how to use t...
Oct 24, 2011
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In my eyes, my public speaking skills remain either atrocious or some form of hilarious with shots of reality. I was able to give the “blooper reel” a lot of ammunition this past weekend ...
Jun 29, 2011
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Following a guest post yesterday I was either deservingly or not hit with a few comments that spoke to the tone of questioning abilities so today I’m going to show you why none of it even matte...
Jun 07, 2011
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Following the release of ADP on Wednesday I was groaning on Twitter about this lack of reliability in terms of this report, and how it is really no better than just a consensus estimate. ADP has gain...
Jun 03, 2011
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Many investors that try to decipher market flows and attempt to understand the way money moves in and out of this or other markets are likely to, at one point or another, refer to the correlation betw...
May 19, 2011
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The word “addict” conjures negative thoughts – it is a dependency, psychologically and physically, that has one spending his or her time on activities that have taken over other major aspects of...
May 18, 2011
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With a slew of propaganda out there telling us to go up, down, sideways, trade with this, that and the other thing, my common reaction to all of this is just sit, observe and work. Here’s a rec...
May 16, 2011
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