Archive for November, 2008

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

A View of the Markets III

Today I am looking at US Stock Market. Here’s the link.
http://www.tradingsuccess.com/download/27-11/27-11.html
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Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

A View of the Markets II

Today we continue with the series. Yesterday, I showed how I use fundamentals to provide a context. But, it’s technicals that determine the details - they provide with the timing, entry, stop etc for an analysis or trade.
I’ll start the series with the indices and in particular with the Australian ASX 200. Enjoy the video!
http://www.tradingsuccess.com/download/26-11/26-11.html
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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

A View of the Markets 11-25-2008

In this and the next 3 or so blogs, I’ll be writing an overview of how I view the trends in the markets till the first quarter.
I have a process of analysis that starts with an attempt to understand the contextual framework from a fundamental and technical stance. Fundamentally in economics, I adopt the Austrian […]

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Monday, November 24th, 2008

Ebb & Flow - How to Identify

I was going to start a series on the markets tonight. But, Peter Whitnall’s comment on the Ebb & Flow raised quite a few e-mails.
In this blog, I’ll answer the question: how do we know when to increase and decrease our position size?
Well first off, we can never ‘know’ but we can make solid guesses. […]

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Friday, November 21st, 2008

The Hero’s Quest IV: The Final Lessons

1987 marked the attainment of Young Ray’s quest: to secure relatively consistent results. But I found that there was still one major lesson to learn. Joseph Campbell says that after he secures the treasure, the Hero encounters smaller difficulties. In my case, there was a most important lesson still to be learnt.
Let’s fast forward around […]

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Thursday, November 20th, 2008

The Hero’s Quest III: The Journey Begins & Progresses

So Young Ray sold his legal practice and armed with false confidence sallied forth. At least I did not make one mistake that some newbies make: I was well capitalized. I meet many novice traders who have dreams of becoming full-time traders with a starting capital of about US$10,000.00. I have yet to see one […]