Blog Profile / Mercenary Trader
| URL : | http://www.mercenarytrader.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Business & Finance / Investing | |
| Posts on Regator: | 778 | |
| Posts / Week: | 5.3 | |
| Archived Since: | August 23, 2010 | |
Blog Post Archive
The Benefits of Written Expression
Trading Wisdom 58: "In a series of important experiments from the 1980s to the 2000s, scientists showed that writing about trauma produced clear immune benefits."
Precarious Spot for the Majors
The major indices look vulnerable here, especially from a weekly perspective...
Conditioning Abnormal Responses
Trading Wisdom 57: "Normal human tendencies are traits that cause you to do poorly. Therefore, to be successful as a trader you need to condition abnormal responses..."
The Trading-Writing Connection
Trading Wisdom 56: "Trading, like writing, is a comparable voyage of discovery, with deeper level attractions for he (or she) who wishes to explore...."
Gold Whackage Perpetrator – Deviously Cunning or Total Idiot?
Whoever whacked the gold market Tuesday night is either deviously cunning or a complete idiot...
Putting Maker to the Test
We recently put Maker to the tournament test, and it passed... plus, meetup in Atlantic City December 6th - 10th!
Dominating a “Simple” Game
Trading Wisdom 55: "The remarkable thing here is not the practice effort Tinsley put in -- though that is remarkable in itself -- but the fact a game as basic as checkers can yield such a dominant competitive edge..."
Transaction Tax Update: Slow Traction in Europe, Unlikely in US
MM comment: The following is courtesy of our legal counsel, Cott Law Group, P.C. If you have further questions about the JOBS Act or any other legal counsel needs, feel free to contact them directly: Kevin Cott Cott Law Group, P.C.Show More Summary
Gold Looks Great… Gold Stocks Look Terrible
Gold and silver look excellent here... but the actual metal miners look like crap. An exploration as to possible reasons why...
Debt Doomers and Deficit Deniers
In the long run we suspect Bass (the debt doomer) is closer to the mark. But in the long run we are all dead, as Keynes once said...
Form as Freedom
Trading Wisdom 54: "Far from wishing to waken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft...."
Requiem for a Twinkie
R.I.P. Twinkie Market: March 2009 - Nov 2012???
Technical Analysis Fact and Fiction
Trading Wisdom 53: "Technical analysis, I think, has a great deal that is right and a great deal that is mumbo jumbo..."
The Four Horsemen Ride Again
When you see all four of these rise at the same time, the underlying message is very, very ominous...
Not the Tools Themselves
Trading Wisdom 52: "Society, technology and the times change so fast that any fact, process or algorithm we learn at school is by definition not going to be useful for any length of time..."
Obama Pocket Kings, Romney Pocket Queens?
So Tuesday is the Presidential election. What does this mean for markets?
Corleone Market
Call it a Corleone market. Just when you think you're out, the bulls pull you back in...
Vegas Reconnaissance, Plus, Looking for a Few Good Mercenaries
As you have likely guessed, poker has been very good to us. But poker's potential remains barely tapped...
JOBS Act Update: Senator Levin Throws a Curve
MM comment: The following is courtesy of our legal counsel, Cott Law Group, P.C. If you have further questions about the JOBS Act or any other legal counsel needs, feel free to contact them directly: Kevin Cott Cott Law Group, P.C.Show More Summary
Taking Beatings and Investing in Loss
Trading Wisdom 51: "Tai Chi Chuan master William C.C. Chen refers to this process as "investing in loss," which means shedding one's ego... showing a willingness to seek out and experience defeats... and then making a concerted effort to learn and grow from those defeats."