Published in February 28th, 2010
BarroMetrics Views: The Rider, the Elephant and the Path
My apologies for not posting on Friday. Please take this as a replacement blog.
In the new Neurological model of learning, the key initial step is what Coyle calls, ‘the ignition process’.
Many newbies (I’d say, too many) skip it either because they don’t know it’s an essential step […]
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Published in February 25th, 2010
BarroMetrics Views: Trading Our Beliefs
When I first started trading I confused ‘reality’ with my ‘perception of reality’. As a result, I fell into the ‘certainty’ and ‘hindsight bias’ traps.
The best way to explain this insight is by way of example. Figures 1 and 2 show the EURUSD and S&P with yesterday’s price action between 9:30 […]
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Published in February 24th, 2010
BarroMetrics Reviews: Reasonable Expectations II
Let’s turn now to the nub of Gary’s question: should his goal be a big or small one?
Gary, my view is if I am a trading newbie i.e. someone who has not made money over three more or less consistent years, then I’d focus on:
completing and learning from my micro account […]
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Published in February 24th, 2010
Cross ref
http://idkitana.wordpress.com/2010/02/24/ray-on-ndtv-profit-india/
Ray on NDTV Profit India
February 24, 2010 at 8:22 am (Markets) · Edit
Here are the links to selected recent interviews of Ray Barros with NDTV
‘Sensex can pull back in March end’
8 min 48 sec
Tuesday, Feb 23, 2010 , India
Ray Barros, CEO at Ray Barros Trading […]
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Published in February 23rd, 2010
BarroMetrics Reviews: Reasonable Expectations
Gary asked:
“Since I have gone about 10 sessions with positive expectancy I believe I have the bones of a working strategy and am naturally eager to get off the simulator……
On the simulator I was making 500.00 a week. Some think that because of the ‘emotion’ of live trading that I should have […]
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Published in February 22nd, 2010
BarroMetrics Views: Trading Competitions
Jeff Moodie asked:
I find it very interesting that the range from first to third was so large. It makes the FX trading look awfully tough.
I wonder what the total stat chart looked like, if over 90% lost money in the game for instance.
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Jeff, in this case, I believe that only the first […]
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Published in February 20th, 2010
Cross ref from Idkit
Ray on Sky video
February 20, 2010 at 7:10 am Public Relations & TV
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Ray on Sky TV
http://www.tradingsuccess.com/download/sky-interview.wmv
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Published in February 19th, 2010
Cross ref from Idkit:
Ray on Cashflow today
February 19, 2010 at 6:09 pm (Markets) · Edit
Ray Barros, CEO at Ray Barros Trading Group takes viewer emails and charts the Indian rupee and Bombay Sensex.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1417686919&play=1
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Published in February 18th, 2010
BartroMetrics Views: The Decision-Making Process
Some e-mails I have received about the recent blogs would suggest I am not explaining myself clearly. So, let me state it in a one-line comment: I believe that the best decisions are the ones that combine head and heart i.e. reason and intuition (and intuition signals its intent through our […]
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Published in February 17th, 2010
BarroMetrics Views: Intuition and Trading
A Pete Steidlmayer saying: ‘most traders want to operate at 120% effectiveness; the reality is we need be satisfied with a consistent 60%’.
Well there wording is not exact but the meaning is. Pete was saying that too many traders expect to operating at peak effectiveness all of the time and that […]
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