The Traders JournalJuly 20, 2012 at 12:06 PM
A week doesn’t go by without some investor asking me “which one single indicator do you recommend above all others?” When I answer this question, the indicator I speak of is never the one they expect...Read More
The Traders JournalJuly 13, 2012 at 12:00 PM
Make no mistake about it: these are internet days and news circles the globe at the speed of light...Read More
The Traders JournalJuly 06, 2012 at 12:00 PM
I’ve been teaching college extension classes for over ten years, and I invariably see a disproportionate percentage of new investors being drawn to investing because they envision themselves as lone wolves and believe the markets provide an arena where they can fly solo and succe...Read More
The Traders JournalJune 29, 2012 at 12:00 PM
Ever drive a bumper car at an amusement park? Remember how the bumper car headed off in one direction until it bumped into what it deemed an immovable object and then backed off in a seemingly random direction. I’ve met investors whose methodology resembles something similar...Read More
The Traders JournalJune 22, 2012 at 12:00 PM
Most people call it Technical Analysis, but I prefer to think of it as “Visual Analysis”. Picture it as a tree with many colorful branches...Read More
The Traders JournalJune 15, 2012 at 12:00 PM
Highly educated people are, for the most part, trained to ask the question “Why?” Engineers, accountants, doctors, lawyers and the like invariably want to know all they can about why certain things happen...Read More
The Traders JournalJune 08, 2012 at 12:00 PM
When I was a graduate student in business school, I had the privilege and good fortune of watching John Elway play football as the quarterback for Stanford and seeing him around campus in a multitude of different situations...Read More
The Traders JournalJune 01, 2012 at 02:20 PM
I trust you read last week’s post, Part I on “The Art of Selling Well”. Those rules provide the foundation for what I will describe this week...Read More
The Traders JournalMay 25, 2012 at 12:00 PM
In its most elemental form, selling is an inner struggle that deals with an investor’s ability to tame two wild horses: one’s own inner fear and greed...Read More
The Traders JournalMay 18, 2012 at 12:00 PM
I’m sitting on the lanai of a condo here at the Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii watching the sun peek above the ocean horizon, and I’m digging into the question of why a disproportionate number of my winning trades have occurred on these vacations...Read More
