Chris Tate, Author at Trading Game

Its not the economy stupid….its price

Trading ResourcesBy Chris Tate February 21, 2011 2 Comments

I am regularly send odds and sods by various peanuts (usually economists) telling me what the market should and shouldn’t be doing. Unfortunately, they are making a fundamental flaw – the stockmarket is not the economy. The stockmarket is a pricing mechanism based upon the aspirations and perceptions of populations and these populations are not…

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I love a good currency punch up

Trading ResourcesBy Chris Tate February 21, 2011

This is a list of the currency currency conflicts floating around the international markets compiled by Paul Mason of the BBC. China versus the USA: in which the US wants China to allow the RMB to rise against the dollar, weakening China’s competitiveness by raising the price of Chinese exports. There is the USA versus…

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SAC Capital

Trading ResourcesBy Chris Tate February 20, 2011

Interview with Steve Cohen of SAC Capital. Since inception in 1992 SAC has only had one down year and averages 27.1% return.

I love a good visual

Trading ResourcesBy Chris Tate February 18, 2011

Egypts 2000 years of growth compared to China.

Jesse Livermores Seven Trading Rules

Trading ResourcesBy Chris Tate February 17, 2011

Within the mentor program Reminiscences of a Stock Operator is compulsory reading. I have the newer annotated version on my desk where it lives. One fot he things that reading older books a bout trading highlights is that there is nothing new under the sun. I know everyone likes to think they have discovered something…

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Madoff Interview

Trading ResourcesBy Chris Tate February 17, 2011

The notion of a fraud as large as that perpetrated by Bernie Madoff intrigues me and offers a lesson for traders. Madoffs great sales hook was that his form offer very high returns – there is nothing unusual about this but what was unusual about Madoff is that he made this offer with a…

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What is your pain threshold?

Trading PsychologyBy Chris Tate February 16, 2011

About two years ago LB and I received an email from someone who had read our books. In this letter the trading describes how after reading our books he had turned $100,000 into $11,000,000 – I stopped reading at this point and wandered off thinking off course you had, you read my book. All would…

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And knowing this helps how?

Trading ResourcesBy Chris Tate February 16, 2011

I have attached a chart below that I grabbed off the web from a finance site. This chart comes courtesy of The Chart Store and it combines two of my least favourite implied TA concepts – the notion of overbought/oversold and the prediction that this implies. I agree that crowds fatigue, this is simply a…

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Mexican Wrestling

Trading ResourcesBy Chris Tate February 14, 2011

I probably could have generated any number of reasons as to why I would post this. Its a metaphor for trading, small players always get hurt, expect the unexpected blah blah blah. But the reason is its Monday and Mexican wrestling has a wonderful demented quality so why not –

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