→ September 28, 2009
To succeed in trading and in every other aspect of our life we have to learn to deal with failure. Here are some of my favourite quotes on this matter of failure: “I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot… when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.” Michael [...]
→ July 15, 2009
Wells Fargo sues itself. Don’t shoot the speculator. A tale of two bailouts. Forecasters Overpredict GDP and Employment. The social life of financial bubbles. Catching false breakouts. Largest Sovereign Wealth Funds. Company Seeks Return of Seized Poker Winnings. 15 rites of passage from around the world. Why creating jobs is so hard. Cats do control humans. Would you trust a scientist. Pictures of the year.
→ July 14, 2009
Most retail investors trading plans don’t have contingencies in place for failures. With the low cost of hardware and wireless connectivity there is no reason retail traders cannot build a redundant trading system. One failure in the middle of a trading session can be very costly. Possible Failures Note: We will ignore server or broker side [...]
→ July 13, 2009
If you have been an internet user for as long as I have been I am sure you will have came across plenty of scams and blatant get rich quick frauds. My default action is to trust nothing I read on the internet unless it has the following five components: The claim fact or statement is [...]
→ June 20, 2009
The Links Buisness week article learning and profiting from online friends. Google squares an interesting new offering from Google. Yaro from Entrepreneurs Journey looks at what motivates a purchase. Life hacker comments on The BRW Rich 200 On How Not To Lose Your Money. Problogger gives us 13 Tips for Marketing Your Business With Your Blog. The EMH a dead parrot? Monty [...]
→ June 19, 2009
After reformatting my hard drive and reinstalling Windows Vista Business Edition I have been left with a clean slate. I am left looking at a blank desktop it is not until I start trying to work on a project that I realise how many third party applications I have come to rely on so in [...]
→ April 12, 2009
I hope everyone is enjoying the long weekend. It is a sunny 26 C here or 77 F for my non metric system readers. I will just post a few interesting links as it is to nice a day to be inside. Below are some pictures taken at Port Noarlunga beach yesterday (I am lucky [...]
→ April 10, 2009
At first glance you may think that trading and poker are poles apart however after you dig under the surface you quickly realise how similar they are. If you are not familiar with the game of poker I suggest you have a read of this site. The basic rules of poker are very simple to [...]
→ April 6, 2009
I received an email today from a reader wanting to know if there was an expert advisor available that would export data to a csv file. although I have not myself seen an EA that does this it is a trivial matter to code such an EA shown below: int handlFile; handlFile = FileOpen(”symbol.csv”, FILE_CSV | FILE_WRITE [...]
→ February 5, 2009
It has taken me far to long to get around to reviewing Timothy Sykes PennyStocking DVD part II. With a run time of approximately six hours there is a huge amount of content to get through. The second DVD series picks up where the first PennyStocking DVD left off. This series looks at 2007 and 2008 [...]
