BarroMetrics Views: Useful Sites
It’s that time again - when I run through the sites I have found useful. Some of these sites are free, others are commercial and some are a mixture of both. All provide great value to the trader.
Quantitative Analysis
Here Rob Hanna’s site stands out: Quantifiable Edges
Jason Goepfert also has a good site […]

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BarroMetrics Views: Questions from Readers
I received queries today from subscribers to the free weekly service.  Since the questions show a consistent theme, I going to answer them here.
Q1: Why don’t I day-trade?
A1: Well, it’s not quite right to say I don’t day-trade - it’s more like I rarely day-trade.
The short answer is my edge lies […]

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BarroMetrics Views: The Talent Code Revisted
In ‘A Quiet Revolution in Learning Theory‘, I introduced Myelin and Daniel Coyle’s learning model, ‘Deep Practice’.
In this blog, I’ll spell out the ramification of these ideas.
Currently, a trader’s education comprises of:

One to four day’s seminars with perhaps a period of support after the seminar.
Three to Six week webinars with […]

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BarroMetrics Views: Comparing Analysis Approaches
The current GBPUSD provides a clear illustration of the difference between traditional technical analysis and my approach.
Traditional technical  analysis tends to be a closed system. For example: if we see a H&S topping pattern with a breach of the neckline, we assume a change in trend from up to down. My […]

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The S&P has been a difficult market for my methodology. I look at:

Stats to identify when a timeframe is overbought or oversold. The fact that a market is overbought does not mean I should go short; it means that it is a high risk long until the higher timeframe swing corrects.
The material in Nature of […]

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BarroMetics Views: The US$
The US dollar holds the key to Gold and Crude.  Both have rallied on the back of current dollar weakness. Let’s look at Crude first.
Figure 1 shows the bullish case. We see a possible Failed Upthrust  Change In Trend Pattern. This would suggest a strong upside breakout. Figure 2 shows the bearish […]

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Cashflow videos  as hereunder:

Vietnam Index
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1273931861&play=1
Shanghai Index
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1273931230&play=1
Gold etc
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1273933068&play=1
Charting Taiex & Acer
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1273933057&play=1

Hang Seng
 http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1273926561&play=1

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BarroMetrics Views: Understanding Timeframes When We Trade
Last Friday,  September 18,  Scott Morrison (Managing Director, Tech Wizard) and I appeared on Trading Matters with CNBC’s Oriel Morrison.  Oriel has always brought out the best of  me: she has an easy going manner to which I respond; moreover, she is always well prepared.
But for me, Friday’s show […]

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CNBC Trading Matters on Fri Sep 18 09 @ 4pm Syd time
Filed under: Uncategorized — idkit @ 12:31 pm
Stay tuned for Ray Barros with Oriel Morrison for Trading Matters.
Assessing whether the Aussie will hit $0.90 against the US dollar, with
technical analysts Ray Barros, CEO, Ray Barros Trading Group and Scott
Morrison, MD at TechWizard. […]

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BarroMetrics Views: The Power of Internalised Habits
Over the past ten years, I have suffered a footnote ailment; by that I mean it is one of those conditions found in the footnote of medical texts. The condition is called ‘Transient Global Amnesia (TGA)”: I lose my short-term memory for about 24 hours.
Prior to Wednesday, I had […]

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