Author: Steven Karp

Invest for Inflation or Deflation? Act like a Trader and it doesn’t matter – December 3, 2009   Is deflation or inflation coming? Investors need to know because the portfolio to chose is dependent. If inflation...

Mechanical Trading Systems work for many traders, including me.  If you’ve read many of my postings you know that I use 5 different mechanical systems with various timeframes.  All successfully accomplish what I...

Short-Term Trading Update – as of November 27, 2009 The market has been looking for a reason to correct and Dubai may have provided the answer. I am expecting a week of correction. The question will be whether this the...

Short-Term Trading Update – as of November 20, 2009 Last week’s correction was unremarkable. Given the short trading week I would not be surprised to see a bit more correction on low holiday volume. Perhaps that will...

Applying Newton’s laws to the current market we can surmise that a market in motion will stay in motion until something stops it. I still am hearing a lot of expectation that the market will soon correct in a significant...

I am an advocate of both short-term and long-term trading in lieu of the traditional buy and hold asset allocation strategy. In asset allocation, a basket of securities is created with low correlations and then the basket is...

 Which will it be, inflation or deflation? The problem is that no one knows for sure right now. Experts seem to be in one of two camps, a) serious inflation will come back because of all this government stimulus, or b)...

 I have written posts in the past about my progress in developing and testing new trading systems so I thought it might be helpful to start more at the beginning. Here are my steps for developing a succesful (hopefully)...