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TUES. NOV. 9- Trading When It's Time To Trade Part of me simply wants to re-post a blog from a few weeks ago and leave things be. I won’t do that although the link is here: http://epiphanytrading.blogspot.com/search?q=the+charlie+brown+torture In the piece, I desperately tried to hammer...

MON. NOV. 8- The End Of A Relationship? We’ve all had a subject in high school and/or college we could not conquer. Mine was 1991 era CADD (computer aided drawing and design). I was good at algebra, calculus, typing, and held my own in physics. But no matter how many hours I spent pouring...

FRI. NOV. 5- Being There When You Need To Be There My wife went into labor in the middle of the night for both of my kids. I had not one, but two late night dashes to the hospital with my younger one (Samara) actually arriving at 5:25AM. It’s funny what one remembers about those times, but...

THURS. NOV. 4- Old School Vs New School In early August, on my beloved younger daughter’s 2nd birthday, I wrote this piece about a ‘new’ type of trade I have begun to do a little more in attempting to adapt to the changing markets...

WED. NOV. 3- How Big Will QE2 Be? On May 2, 1969, the maiden voyage of a grand ship commenced from Southampton (United Kingdom) to New York City. It took almost five days to sail across the Atlantic with Prince Charles the first civilian passenger aboard the great ship. The ship was heavily...

TUES. NOV. 2- Election Day 2010 (the table below is not coming out as it should...my apologies). Today is Election Day throughout the United States. The process- while a long, drawn-out and also nasty one at times also is incredible to me. The U.S. is quite unique in that it has had very...

MON. NOV. 1- What A Week Ahead This is one of those weeks that has the set-up to be dynamic…although it is every bit as likely that movements will not be exaggerated. But the signs are there. Today is likely to be a low volume day ahead of a bevy of news due out later this week. With that...

FRI. OCT. 29- Staring Into the Abyss “Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.” Many of you likely recognize that quote. If not, it is attributed to the character of Lou Mannheim...

THURS. OCT. 28- Talkin' Japanese Several days ago, the Japanese government stepped in and promulgated a major intervention to attempt to prop up the sagging yen. For a brief time, the yen vaulted higher. But it didn’t take long for the strong trend to reassert itself. First, one has to...

WED. OCT. 27- One More on Mutual Funds I wasn’t planning on turning this into ‘Halloween Mutual Fund’ week, but I’ve gotten more questions since Monday about this than anything. So, let me go back to basics. In yesterday’s piece, I discussed the “why” behind the mutual fund...

TUES. OCT. 26- Answering A Question Yesterday, I made reference to the fact that almost all mutual funds end their fiscal year on October 31. But almost nobody knows why. In fact, I was very embarrassed by my ignorance when I had several people ask me yesterday why it was indeed the case...

MON. OCT. 25- Speculating on Speculation On a day like Friday when trading becomes quite slow, oftentimes one can create something out of seemingly nothing amid the environment we are in. By that, I mean that there is a degree of forth underneath the surface as some investors/funds have...

FRI. OCT. 22- Learning From History A few weeks ago, I noted that I had analyzed many trades in order to truly gather data for attempting to aid my own trading performance particularly in light of the switchover of EDGX to the Direct Edge Stock Exchange. A few people asked me about it so I...

THURS. OCT. 21- What's The Market Thinking About? Don’t worry. I won’t be graphic. I just have to describe something to make a point. It is all about childbirth. I’ve been lucky enough to witness much less play a part in the delivery of both of my beautiful little girls (Rayna and...

WED. OCT. 20- The China Syndrome A very major political event happened with an alarmingly paucity of fanfare a couple of weeks ago.. That afternoon, the House of Representatives- by an overwhelming majority of 348 to 79- passed a bill which authorized the Department of Commerce to impose...

TUES. OCT. 19- It's Insaaaaaaaane It's happened to us all. We're running slightly late for a nighttime appointment, meeting, or a party. We think we know the address of our final destination, we get there, and we see that if we're looking for "1171" and we pass "1151" to come to "1201," we...

MON. OCT. 18- The Weak Bond Auction Last week, I wrote a piece in which I discussed that in the immediate-term, the anticipated immediate-term effects of potential quantitative easing was aiding in causing the worldwide right of all asset prices from gold to oil to equities to bonds. This of...

FRI. OCT. 15- Knowing When NOT To Trade When I first learned to drive a car, I was very nervous but very excited. My father took me to the parking lot of a local school and I practiced driving around in a circle, starting/stopping, parallel parking, and so forth. The first time I drove on...

THURS. OCT. 14- Understanding True Momentum Many people describe the style of trading that I and many other day traders utilize as “momentum trading.” But what I for one do, it’s not the case whatsoever in the truest sense of the word “momentum.” The only time I truly try to...

WED. OCT. 13- "QE2' In The News A columnist at Bloomberg named Rich Yamarone recently wrote a piece about quantitative easing. For those not aware what quantitative easing is, it is ostensibly a program designed to pump money into an economy without using traditional means such as the...