With strong jobs data, we've seen the dollar rally sharply against the euro and stocks rally strongly to new bull highs, led by the financial sector.Note the inversion of recent themes: here we're seeing strong stock prices on the heels of a strong dol...
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Here's a little thought experiment for active traders. Suppose you could only make two trades per day and you could only trade at a maximum of 2x leverage.Once you made your two trades, you were done for the day.What would happen?You would have to be ...
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* Reduced bank lending in China;* Big bull rallies are typical of larger bear markets;* More talk of a "V" shaped recovery;* Put buyers on strike and more excellent market reads;* Ten interesting observations about the markets;* Views on consumer...
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Please take a look at my post on the narrowing trading range from several days ago. We're seeing that scenario playing out in recent trading, as stocks have retreated from their highs and are back into multiday trading ranges. All of this looks like ...
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The recent post emphasized the importance of finding creative trading niches. The great majority of traders I've known who have sustained success have developed their own unique "take" on markets. They either look at unique information, or they assem...
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A while back I wrote six pieces of advice for new traders. One additional piece of advice that I would offer is to be creative in finding markets and strategies to trade.If you were starting a new business, you wouldn't necessarily select an area that...
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Here we see that we're trading at the upper end of yesterday's range. Note that, once again, corrections have been relatively short and shallow, helping to preserve the uptrend. We have support at the Tuesday and Wednesday lows; failure to sustain ne...
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Well, it's going on 9 AM here in Cape Town and I'm sitting in the offices of Connect-123, overlooking Table Mountain and the Central Business District. Just a lovely city, and everyone has been more than hospitable.Connect-123 started as our oldest so...
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I'll be returning to live posts shortly. Here, in the interim, are further "best of" posts focusing on the psychology and performance of traders:Still More Best of TraderFeed Posts From 2006Posts to Help Your Self-Coaching.
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Here are more readings worth viewing and reviewing, with a focus on trading performance. TraderFeed will go live again on a limited basis upon my arrival into South Africa:Developing Yourself as a TraderMore Best of TraderFeed Posts From 2006.
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