Posted in MOMO1, MR1, Strategy Update, TREND1 on November 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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Despite my best efforts to kill the patient (aka my accounts), I think he/she/it is still alive – finally, I’ve got some better movement in the systems area. Nothing that makes me want to run out and throw all my money at them, but hey, it’s a start.
November has finished [...]
Posted in Humor, tagged ISTJ on November 21, 2008 | 8 Comments »
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I’ve been playing around with a website called Typealyzer this morning for fun as I have no trades on or to be done. Basically, the software analyzes a website and then decides on the “personality” of the writing of the website. So, for fun, I’d run all my favorite trading blogs through them [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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Ok, so in my prior post I said the market hadn’t chosen a direction. My mistake. It has. And it is straight down.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bloomberg, Bloomberg L.P., CNBC on November 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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As expected, yesterday the Skills Index closed below its moving average.
So, what this means is that I’ll be looking on the short side rather than the long side for opportunities. Meanwhile today, the market seems to be having trouble deciding which way to go.
I’ve come to the obvious conclusion that all bets are [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »
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A few weeks back, I was emailing with Woodshedder about the problem of volatility targeting in tradings systems. This cause him to write this better sumary of my point in this post:
Finally, Damian from over at Skill Analytics reminded me that traders can get hit with larger than expected losses when [...]
Posted in Strategy ideas, tagged Yield curve on November 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Bespoke has note up this morning about the Yield curve (the separation between the 10y yield and the 3m yield). So I realized that I hadn’t really looked at it in a while, and pulled it up.
While we’ve reached an interesting upside point on the curve, it is important to notice that even having reached [...]
Posted in Strategy ideas on November 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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I wanted to follow-up on a post over at Big Picture that had to deal with momentum tops and bottoms. Looking over the post, I don’t quite have the programming skill to look at exactly what is being discussed, but I did think it would be interesting to take a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 2, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Woodshedder, over at iBankCoin, has posted some interesting trades as well – I’m part of the group that worked on, as he calls it, the “Power Double Dip” system. As a result, and because of the double confirmation in the trades, I’ll be taking those trades tomorrow.
Posted in Uncategorized on November 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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Not sure if there is even any point in posting results for October, but hey, that’s what I signed up for, so that’s what I’m going to do. Once again, I haven’t been trading these systems in October because the master signal is off. Now, at the end of the [...]
