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  • A Few Good Reads, Redux
    Posted by on May 17th, 2013 at 1:24 pm, Comments: 0

    These linkfests are not the start of a trend but hopefully the completion of “catching up”. I hope to get back to regular posts of [...]

  • A Few Good Reads
    Posted by on May 6th, 2013 at 3:15 pm, Comments: 0

    My free time has been skewing heavily to making my data collection more efficient, with my reading efforts failing to keep pace. I found a [...]

  • Supply Side Trading
    Posted by on April 13th, 2013 at 10:19 am, Comments: 0

    As it always does, this year’s MTA Symposium provided a window into the process of price analysts of all stripes. My pal JC Parets already [...]

  • Taking Control of Our Trading Madness
    Posted by on March 23rd, 2013 at 12:35 pm, Comments: 0

    Somewhere in my DNA is this inexplicable need to create trading analogies from other disciplines. I’ve always thought of trading through the eyes of a [...]

  • Following the Lead of Martin Zweig
    Posted by on March 9th, 2013 at 10:21 am, Comments: 0

    “I measure what’s going on and adapt to it. I try to get my ego out of the way. The market is smarter than I [...]

  • Market Divergence?
    Posted by on February 16th, 2013 at 10:24 am, Comments: 0

    No, I’m not shifting into grizzly mode and positioning for an imminent decline. But with a real squint, I can look at this 3rd week [...]

  • On Rational Markets
    Posted by on January 12th, 2013 at 10:11 am, Comments: 0

    “Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent” John Maynard Keynes Having believed that line for most of my trading years, I’ve evolved [...]

  • Process
    Posted by on December 29th, 2012 at 11:29 am, Comments: 0

    That is the common thread of anything I choose to read. Through the 90s, I NEVER missed my weekend Barrons read, yet the only piece [...]

  • Draining the Excess
    Posted by on December 4th, 2012 at 3:54 pm, Comments: 0

    The goal of a healthy consolidation is to drain excess bullishness without disturbing the underlying momentum. So far, we haven’t disturbed the positive energy coming out [...]

  • Quick Breadth Snapshot
    Posted by on November 20th, 2012 at 3:48 pm, Comments: 0

    Two days into a powerful upswing, should we consider this the beginning of a sustainable intermediate trend or simply another bounce doomed to failure? Let’s [...]