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Chart of the Day: Markets Under Stress
Looking at day-to-day changes in markets on a volatility-adjusted basis can quickly show themes and stresses that we need to consider.
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Stock screens for trading day Thursday 10 August 2017
I've shared these screens for a while, and they will eventually be part of the new MarketLife project. Until we're live there, I'll keep sharing them here. Here is a link to today's screens: ML_Screens081017 And here is a "how
Trading tools
Video blog: how to use the stock screens
Psychology
These things will happen to you
Trading is great—you’ll have no boss, can work whenever you want, and make boatloads of money! (Or so the email I got from a MLM forex scammer this morning tells me…) While there might be a grain of truth in all of this, there’s a bigger truth
Pullback
Choosing the best pullbacks
Trading is a game of choices. Over time, we hope to make more good choices than bad. Sometimes, the choices are obvious: control your risk, take disciplined trades, be mindful of correlated risks, but other times the factors that separate good from bad decisions are more subtle. Today, let'
General Comments
I need your help! A call for logo submissions
If you read my previous post, you know that I'm in the final stages of launching a new company and slightly new direction for my business. I know that many of my readers are fantastically skilled, and talented, and I thought I'd offer some of you
Readers Questions
Reader question: how can it be random?
I received a good question from Gareth this morning: "Your book is one of my top sources in trading literature, though there are some ideas that I find it difficult to agree. Specifically, I've found your idea of many support/resistance levels being created randomly hard to
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Coming soon... a new way to teach
My blog hasn't been very active in recent weeks, but we've been hard at work behind the scenes... and I have a few big announcements and some exciting things coming in the future. The first big announcement is that I will be launching a new educational
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What a selloff could mean for stocks, and why we're still bullish
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Chart of the day: trend failure in bonds
Podcast
MarketLife Ep 41 - Randomness: why it matters and how to understand it
I received a good question from a listener, Alex: I was talking to a friend of mine (who is a physicist). " I presented him with some market statistics that seem to hold true in many markets, e.g. that the market has only a low probability to hit yesterday’
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