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This episode picks up where we left off last week, and I share a technique for learning remembering anything you want to learn with nearly perfect recall. One thing is important: I go through an exercise in this episode in which I work through a list of words, associating images
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Over the course of the next two or three podcasts, I want to share some tools and techniques I've been using to supercharge my learning. In my case, I've focused these tools on learning a spoken language (French), but these are powerful, raw techniques that you
Climax
This podcast episode looks at trading around market extremes, Acts of God, and very large market moves. From market history, some examples might be 9/11, 1987, Fukushima, Katrina, etc. Today, Greece has the potential to lead to these types of moves and extremes. Technical traders need to understand these
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A look at how to execute trades: where they set up, and how, when, where, and why to pull the trigger--to make the decision to get into or out of a trade. Here are the show notes: * Key assumptions: * Most of what we see is random. * I will be wrong
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A_Joe sent me a question on market cycles: You wrote a post (here) that talked about market cycles. I request that you share some more information on market regimes and how it works within the framework of the market and business cycle. Ideas like regime characteristics, how it starts,
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This episode continues my look at short term (intraday and daytrading) systems and ideas. Here are the episode notes: What’s really happening intraday * Academic studies of market behavior show departures from random walk on lower timeframe * These are distortions, but don’t assume that this makes for easy trading
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Short term trading, intraday trading, daytrading--call it what you will, these styles of trading bring some unique challenges. Tools and approaches that work in other timeframes also work intraday, but applying them requires a different mindset and attitude toward risk. For the next few weeks, my blog will be focusing
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Off topic warning! If you are only interested in finance and trading, this podcast is not for you. :) This episode is 100%, completely about coffee: how different varieties taste, how to roast it, how to make it, and how to make the best possible coffee you can at home. If
Psychology
I was honored to be featured on the Stocktwits Must Follow Podcast series a few weeks ago. I had an interesting conversation with Sean McLaughlin in which we focused heavily on meditation and trader development, but also covered a number of trading-related topics and ideas. Some of you may already
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Every day, we are hit with economic reports, earnings for stocks, speculation, opinion, and a flood of other information. Some of these events move markets; some are non-events. How can we manage the volatility around these reports and what do they mean for the tactical/technical trader? Continuing from this
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Three more reader questions this week: how do we deal with runs of wins and losses? What about applying technicals to non-linear (or derived time series), and how do we translate trading strategies to options from the underlying instruments? Alan asks: Hi Adam, hope all is well. I was mulling
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I answer three reader questions here, and stretch the boundaries of this podcast just a little bit. Igor asks: "We know that the smaller the timeframe(TF), the more random the market is, and longer TFs are less random. If you want to risk X% of your capital than