What do ultra successful investors like Peter Lynch, Warren Buffet, and Jim Rogers all have in common? When I study all truly successful investors, what I've found is they all have two strategies in common. Number one, they all have a system. Here's the...
Will Santa Claus come to Wall Street this year?With the fiscal cliff looming and the fear of higher capital gains taxes, today's popular wisdom would have us believe that there's good reason to worry that Saint Nick may not put in an appearance. If he...
I know people who would make very good traders, but they feel that the markets are too complex, so they don't trade. Ironically, many of these people will use the same skills required to trade when they enter a sports pool. Trading is very similar to...
Confessions of a closet trader How many couples have gone through this? You want to be a trader. I am guessing you are the husband although I don't have any statistics to back this up. Your spouse doesn't think trading is a real job or doesn't want you...
Geometric charting approaches the financial markets from a very different perspective than the familiar and effective world of oscillators and moving averages. Instead of mathematical formulas using specific price data, price movement itself is treated...
Increased scale and complexity of market structures demand paying closer attention to the execution of a trading idea with the goal of preserving expected return of the trade. Professional traders need to take into consideration the important concepts of...
I believe financial astrology works for the same reasons market technical analysis works: despite advancements in technology and civilization, people are people. Basic emotions like fear and greed influence the markets just as do fundamental drivers of...
These days who can really expect to retire anyway? We are bombarded by media reports of soaring health care costs and a Social Security Trust fund that is set to run out of money in about 20 years. It can all be very overwhelming. Often the easiest thing...
Sunday 2 December 2012 Okay, we all know there is blatant manipulation going on by central bankers in desperation to cover their untenable fiat printing, and now, even more worrisome is their lack of physical metal to cover demands for repatriation of...
Sunday 2 December 2012 The one question so many want to know is where to find a good trade? From our perspective, we could care less what the underlying futures/stock is, because when reduced to charts, they are all subject to the forces of supply and...