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    Market Doesn't Care How Hard You Try

    The title is misleading. The market is just an exchange and not a person. It consist of crooks, manipulators, thief, snake oil sellers, speculators, investors and traders and all the above. I would believe that market experience does count. Each stock has its own peculiar behavior due to the...
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    The real reason why Bill Gates is now the US’ biggest farmland owner

    He is buying up land and return it to nature ? If that is the case, it's easy. Just make sure that the native tress grow. If it's for growing food, then that's totally different ball game. Good farm hands are hard to find as not many city slickers want to stay in the farm.
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    What do you think of moving average crossovers?

    Based on statistic, at least 60% fail(break moving average) within 20 days. It's hard to make money with such failure rate.
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    What moves the market on daily basis

    Most big corporations(AMZN, AAPL, MSFT) with good fundamental are held by big investment firms. None of these corp will be there forever, e.g. GE. Next are the growth corps where it bring in no profit but with sky high expectation... these are playground big investment firms, hedgeez, retails...
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    Semiconductor Stocks

    Semiconductor business is cyclical. When a product is on allocation, phantom order start to appear so as to boost allocation. Once supply catches up with demand, the phantom order disappear.
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    AMD

    AMD's future is very much dependent on INTC's game plan under new CEO. Another key dependency is TSMC and it's starting to show on chip supply. AMD and TSMC objectives may not be totally aligned. AAPL's ARMS chip may post a challenge to x86.
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    So the Market is Essentially a Casino, Right?

    In all casino games, the outcome is not know before the bet is placed.;) Similarly, the outcome(profit or loss) is not known when the bet is placed in the stock market. Only the market can decide in the future if the bet is in the money. :(
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    Right and wrong trading goals. What are they?

    Start with small capital and bet small. Focus on the method and as time goes by, and odds is in our favor then increase the bet gradually. If things didn't go our way, reduce bet and focus on the method again. It's a continuous cycle.
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    The best way to detect trend market/non trend market in programming?

    Often time, when the percentage of daily change increased, it's a signal of direction change. For example AAPL from April to September 2020 versus from September 2020 onward. A good measure of trend of overall market is to look at the daily change frequency distribution. A trending market tends...
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    Which way? Hydrogen / Green Energy

    Hydrogen can be produced from water using nuclear reactor. That was what had happened when Fukushima blew up. It needs a new breed of nuclear reactor to do that. Then again, is nuclear fission green ? Fusion is a few decades or centuries away.
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    How to become a successful trader?

    I asked my brother whether he still frequent the casino. He told me he had stop going and I asked him why ? He told me that the casino had up the minimum bet and he got cleaned up pretty fast. It's no more fun. The same goes for betting stock. Bet small to protect the capital and that can buy...
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    Could Apple buy Ford?

    If Apple were to buy Ford, it's bad news for US Ford factories. Apple out shut all the US factories and move all manufacturing to China just like iPhone.
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    China pushes back against US sanctions with new rules

    Nixon visited China in 1972 with the intention of containing the Soviet Union. Half a century later, there is no more Soviet Union. The relationship with China has become an economic one. China has become more assertive in term economic and territorial expansion. Maybe is imperative to disengage...
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    What else to learn in technical analysis apart from indicators ?

    Indicator is a basic tool for TA software. Most TA software can support script for screening for winning stocks. The winning stocks are in the stock market and having an effective screening script is the key to finding them. It behaves like a sieve. It is the foundation for a trading system.
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    What should a successful Trader's day/week look like?

    What should a successful Trader's day/week look like? Looks can be very deceiving. If you ask how to be a successful trader then there will be plenty of advice how to become one. Which one to choose from ? It's a long and arduous journey. If it's that simple why bother getting a job. Everyone...
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    NYSE delisting Chinese telco companies

    Isn't Jack Ma is under the cross hair of the Chinese government ? The monopoly is given to them and it's easily be taken away.
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    Do you...

    This was in the early 1980s. OSU Adaptive Suspension Vehicle - YouTube
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    Computer for college and trading

    If you intend to use charting software such as Metastock, Multicharts etc, it's best to stick to Windows system.
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    How to Make Money in Stocks by William J. O'Neil

    CANSLIM ... ya... Analyst EPS estimates are everywhere. If missed EPS numbers, sometimes the stock got slammed... hard but other times no biggie. When it's hot like China EV, batteries, Solar, work from home tools etc... they are really hot.
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    China’s Australian coal blacklist now official

    Justin should cut a deal with Scott and have Aussie drop ship to China on behalf of Canada. Canada just make the difference without doing a thing. :) Justin still to still have to deal with Xi on prisoner swap if Biden choose not to take on Huawei. I thought prisoner swap was between iron...
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