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Just a short note here as we head into the holiday weekend. I want to share a few updates and tell you about about some exciting new things that are coming very soon. * I will be launching a series of short publications soon--whitepaper and mini-book formats. The idea will be
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Many traders have noticed the recent, impressive run in European stocks, and specifically the strength in Germany. Take a look at the following chart: However, as we all know, the US Dollar has been a historic bull run, and a big part of USD strength has been a decline in
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Most of us who write about financial markets look to the future. Yes, there is a place for theory, and any theory lies on a firm foundation of what has happened in the past—history matters. But what probably matters most to us is the future: what is around the
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Successful trading and investing is largely about asking the right questions. Many of the most serious mistakes we make come from blindly accepting our ideas and perceptions at face value. I would like to offer you a short checklist of questions that will challenge you to think more deeply and
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I thought it might be useful to take a look at one of the most common trading patterns, the flag, and, more importantly, to see what happens when it doesn't work out. If we understand how patterns fail, we are better equipped to trade those patterns, and, sometimes,
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I want to share an email I sent to my blog subscribers last week. If you don't get these updates, please sign up in the sidebar. There will be more goodies and opportunities offered in these updates over the coming months (there was an offer to alpha test
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Yesterday's post ended with a look at some of the effects and benefits of meditation, and some recent studies that show meditation is able to change your body and your brain--effects going far beyond mind or attitude. The lesson here is that meditation is real and it is
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My previous post looked at the concept of comparing relative strength of two assets by comparing returns from a specific point in time. In that post, I suggested using a previous, structurally important, pivot as the comparison point, but there are some potential issues with that idea. Today, I will
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Well, looks like 2015 is here with a bang, and markets kick off the year with some volatility. Though we often focus on short term patterns and flows, it pays to keep an eye on the big picture. My friend Andrew Barber, wrote a piece this morning in which he
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Markets are complicated. Market analysis is complicated. Developing a trading system certainly can be complicated. But trading cannot be complicated. The act of placing trades and evaluating results must be as streamlined and simplified as possible. Here are a few suggestions for things you can do today, with investing an
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I left you, at the end of yesterday's post, with some strong evidence that luck plays a big part in your trading results. Now for the good news: you are not powerless against luck. People say many different things about luck, like "luck is what happens when
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This is an obvious issue, but one that is often ignored. The argument of many academics is that you can’t make money trading; your best bet is to put your money in a diversified fund and reap the baseline drift compounded over many years. (For most investors, this is