Archive for September, 2010

  • DIVERSIFY YOUR INFORMATION INTAKE, MINIMIZE THE NOISE
    Posted by on September 30th, 2010 at 11:21 am, Comments: 0

    TURN OFF THAT NOISE!!!! Any Independent Trader who has spent more than 5 minutes watching CNBC knows what I’m talking about. The tradertainment channel bombards [...]

  • AMAZING TO HEAR A CEO TELL IT LIKE IT IS
    Posted by on September 27th, 2010 at 3:43 pm, Comments: 0

    Many thanks to Jeff Carter of PointsandFigures.com for sharing this link of Bernie Marcus, one of the co-founders of Home Depot getting all riled up [...]

  • There are a TRILLION reasons to be bearish, but…..
    Posted by on September 24th, 2010 at 12:49 pm, Comments: 0

    Frustrated Bear …but there is no way the “Establishment” in Washington is going to go down without a fight. You see, my dear readers, the [...]

  • PUTTING YOURSELF IN THE BEST FINANCIAL POSITION TO SUCCEED
    Posted by on September 20th, 2010 at 7:05 pm, Comments: 0

    The old trading saw CUT YOUR LOSERS SHORT is far and away the most popular and certainly one of the most important rules for successful [...]

  • HOW WEEKLY OPTIONS CAN BENEFIT TRADERS SEEKING ALPHA.
    Posted by on September 15th, 2010 at 12:25 pm, Comments: 0

    Alpha Male A couple readers of my previous post asked me to expound more on my thoughts regarding utilizing weekly options in an effort to help [...]

  • ABSOLUTE ALPHA
    Posted by on September 13th, 2010 at 6:47 pm, Comments: 0

    As a guy who’s been involved in the markets for 13 years now, it frustrates me that I still find that I have SO MUCH [...]

  • MINIMALISM IN TRADING: AN INTERVIEW WITH EVERETT BOGUE
    Posted by on September 10th, 2010 at 1:12 pm, Comments: 0

    As discussed in my previous post, I intend to delve into discussion of the Minimalist Movement and how it can benefit self-employed Traders in their [...]

  • APPLYING THE ART OF MINIMALISM TO THE ART OF TRADING. A series of exploration.
    Posted by on September 9th, 2010 at 6:32 pm, Comments: 0

    Trading is hard. Real hard. The battle is taken to you from every direction. You battle the pros on Wall Street, macro economic forces beyond [...]

  • THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING $VXX GOES HARD-TO-BORROW, AGAIN.
    Posted by on September 9th, 2010 at 10:45 am, Comments: 0

    The Incredible Shrinking Equity Product, $VXX, continues its slow march of death to zero. And naturally, it goes “Hard-to-Borrow” again, meaning there is no stock [...]

  • LATEST ADVENTURES IN $VXX
    Posted by on September 7th, 2010 at 11:29 am, Comments: 0

    While on vacation last week, I had a strong urge to clear the decks and begin the post Labor Day trading stretch with a clean [...]