Recent content by SoxxClinton

Go get 'em today dawg. Whatever happens, I appreciate you sharing your journey. This has been a really refreshing journal to read and I wish you the best!

A solid fundie guy (not a momentum player in disguise) with a level head and no institutional imperative to play the hot new thing is usually never going to be long the crazy crap that hits the wall in the first place. Even a basic understanding of portfolio management or security analysis is...

Ha. I wish I could. What I have found from discussions with a few folks and a few interviews is that my record is worth nearly zilch to anyone but me. Far from starting my own fund, I seriously doubt I could even get a job doing any trading or research anywhere. Dude, what I have found is that...

So what do you technically inclined folks think about the huge ranges (high to low) and volume being seen in REIT's the last couple of days? IYR is the main ETF. Is an unusually large daily range of movement combined with higher volume a bottoming type of action or does it depend? The last...

yeah it was kinda like that. I made money like everybody else in the last couple of years of the 90's. To be honest I never did much momentum, technical, or daytrading so my returns develop over much longer timeframes than most of you guys talk about. You could say that I am a fundamentally...

Trading is brutal man. In hindsight (I am 37 now) it would have been 10 times easier to follow through on my top rank education and a developing career as an analyst at a major bank. Maybe even more lucrative too by this point. And I am one of the ones who have made it 10 (almost 11 years)...

Not to say the S&P won't hit 1000 for emotional reasons, but from a fundamental point of view, most of the time the market will not stamp a typical multiple on a one or two year cyclical result, but will look to a "core" or normalized earnings #. For example XOM is only trading at a forward...

Sparky brain chemistry runs in my family too, addiction, depression, OCD. I definately couldn't hack the commercial world, and my relationships have been problematic too, (nothing too "Jerry Springer" but just a lot of introversion). One of the main reasons the private trading and related...

I agree with zdreg as well. I mean the Dow is off 20% already. Who here hasn't been thinking about the lousy banking/housing situation (the XLF off nearly 50% at this point), lousy dollar, stagflation worries, energy prices for quite some time? The VIX is up 50% from the low. To repeat the...

I think you would be fine either way- I think you just get in the door where you can, but I think the more presitigious the firm/position the better. Maybe I am reading your question wrong, but imho I wouldn't trade down in job titles in exchange for being closer to "action". Like I wouldn't...

I agree with the previous poster about Mcmillan's "Options as a Strategic Investment". Once you are comfortable with that, the next step up would be Natenberg's "Option Volatility and Pricing". I think Natenberg gets as far into options as one can really get without introducing theory and math...

Sold off today more or less because of the stronger dollar I am guessing.

Looking for folks in the Twin Cities to network with, bounce ideas, partner up with on various projects. I've been trading full time for nearly 10 years. I experiment with lots of things but I have made the bulk of my gains with fundamental factor based models. I am currently teaching myself...