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So You Want To Be A Trader

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The typical evolution of a trader goes something like this. You have read a few magazines  perhaps bought a few shares you may even have seen Wall Street on video. You go to bed Sunday night, wake up Monday morning and decide that you are a stock market trader. Not too implausible you think, after…

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Chart Of The Day

For some reason these drop into an email account I keep for getting rubbish. These are the guys who have the tendency to do odd things such as measure the current P/E of the S&P500 in turnips and then try and make some prognostication about the number of turnips now versus 16,000 years ago. I…

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There Are Good Rules And There Are Bad Rules

Whilst having breakfast I came across this blurb from an individual who is wanting to move from the sell side of the industry to the advisory/money management. These are his rules for investing – Industries are under-analyzed, relative to the market on the whole, and relative to individual companies. Spend time trying to find good…

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Persistence

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Our current mentor program is one week as of today and before the program began we had a number of people literally begging us to let them in early so they wouldn’t miss out on a place when bookings opened. Here is the interesting thing – the people we have had ask for a refund…

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How Do You Know?

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Someone bounced me the following quote from a newsletter by Richard Russell who is regarded in the US as somewhat of a doyen of predictive technical analysis. The worst kind of market is a market that goes down on good news. As I write, optimism is in the air, and the Dow is down 95…

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The Year So Far

An interesting year so far with all the usual suspects popping up. The one that interests me is Lumber since it can be viewed as a leading indicator in terms of economic recovery if you are into that sort of thing. You can see from the chart below that lumber collapsed before the US housing…

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Gilligan

I recently notice some rubbish in my spam folder that purported to link the Mayan calendar and the current state of the market. Apparently since the Mayan calendar runs out in 2012 we should prepare for the mother of all crashes. And dont get me started on the Elliot Wave theorists who still seem to…

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The Most Generous Rich People You’ve Never Heard Of

Found this in the WSJ over the weekend. Love the conclusion – I wish we heard more about the Dornsifes, Jacobson’s and Morks and less about the Trumps, Adelsons and Soros’s of the world. Perhaps then, America would have a more reality-based view of how the wealthy make and give away their money. Amen to…

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