BarroMetrics Views: Trading and The Emerging Science of The Brain IV
Today we complete the series.
The final attribute of the brain is the conscious mind’s inability to focus on more than one item at a time without suffering diminution of the quality of the outcome. Note there is a difference between the routine matters performed by […]

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BarroMetrics Views: Trading and The Emerging Science of The Brain III
Let’s start by finishing Marcia Conner’s model. Yesterday I ended with the introduction of  the second sequence. In the second brain time, our senses are at their peak.  During the second body time will be the best time to play a musical instrument. And during […]

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BarroMetrics Views: Trading and The Emerging Science of The Brain II
Yesterday I wrote that making decisions requires a great deal of energy. Consequently, when making trading decisions, we need to take this into consideration. The questions that arise are:

Is there a best time for decision making and if so, when is the  best time?
Are there […]

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BarroMetrics Views: Trading and The Emerging Science of The Brain
We live in exciting times. Neurology keeps bringing us new and wonderful insights on how the brain works. Yet traders seem to be giving the information little attention. This week, I’ll be writing a few pieces on some of the advancements and how we can take […]

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BarroMetrics Views: Psychological Pressures and Trading
‘When you find a way to make reasonable decisions not based on your own opinion about future market trends but in accordance with certain market signals, the problem of diminishing and almost completely eliminating psychological pressure and stress will be solved. The key issue in this case is a philosophical […]

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BarroMetrics Views: The S&P 2009-10-22
We may be at the start of the much awaited S&P correction. The question is whether it will be the magnitude of an 18-day (monthly trend) or a 13-week (quarterly trend).
Let’s turn to the charts,
FIGURE 1: (By the way, the Normalised Volume chart has a new look. Because a number of […]

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BarroMetrics Views: One Step At A Time
I was reading Alex Mandossian’s Blog today. You may rightly ask “Alex who”? since Alex is well-known as an  Internet marketing authority rather than a trader. So what relevance does he have to a financial blog? Read on, Charlie Chan and all will be revealed.
As I was saying, […]

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BarroMetrics Views: Swing Strength Comparison
I received a few e-mails asking why I keep saying that the 13-week swing direction is statistically overbought.
I have two reasons:

The LOG percentage changes and
Swing Strength

In Figure 1, I have shown the LOG percentage change of the larger 13-week impulse swings. Notice that even among the sample of 10, the current […]

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 BarroMetrics Views: Barros Swings and Re-labelling

Baz wrote:
Hi Ray,Would your A,B,C, (fig1)labels change/renamed, because the %20 extension was exceeded? I actually took this trade and what stood out to me,initially, was the doji but i had also in my mindseye relabeled it and figured it was in the buy zone if my relabeling was correct.But it […]

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Barrometrics Views: S&P 2009-10-16
A little pushed for time today; so, I am duplicating below the Forum comment found at
“A small change to how I have been writing this. I’ll be attaching the charts with the comments as I review them. This will provide you with the background to my thoughts. This leaves me more space […]

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