Think back to when you first started learning about trading. The potential, the excitement, the learning curve, your first gain and your first loss. It’s a process we all went through. I read books, blogs, basically anything I could get my hands on. I definitely learned a lot, but looking back on my experiences, I learned the most by going through … Read More
Stock scans for 3/25
I talked quite a bit in the webinar I gave last week about using daily stock scans to prepare for the trading day. I also said I would post the scans I send to SMB traders for a couple weeks, so here they are for end of day Friday: http://www.scribd.com/full/51659164?access_key=key-1n2p1ltutjqqmqhxfg3u http://www.scribd.com/full/51659163?access_key=key-dla3wwlyk1truwh9csy
My Unprepared Interview with SMB
I found this blog post about @smbcapital on Twitter. Is he getting hired? TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 2011 My unprepared interview with SMB This is my second time in New York but the first time to actually took the time to look around. It is one of the most fascinating city I been to. I feel like everybody walks with a … Read More
Are We Reading This Wrong?
It seems like I saw a thousand tweets this week about this paper, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. The general sense was that the article supported trend following, specifically trend following for day traders, as a profitable trading strategy, but after reading the paper, I came away with a … Read More
First Aid for The Lonely Trader
Are you a “home-office trader” whose “trader friends” are limited to those user names in online trading rooms? Are you lonely? Would you benefit from the face-to-face meeting of other real live humanoid traders in your local community? If yes, then read on…….. I am a female “home-office trader” residing in Scottsdale Arizona, who, 7 years ago, was so desperate … Read More
A question for the trading community: what do you really want?
Adam asks a question of the trading community.
Extraordinary Situation; Ordinary Trade.
In yesterday’s post, I made a case for a bounce play in the Japanese stock market. Last night’s extreme move makes this call look kind of silly in retrospect, but I want to highlight some important points and lessons here. First of all, this really highlights the difference between “armchair quarterbacking” or “time machine trading” (as we like to call … Read More