July 2012

When Good Traders do Stupid Things. Top Ten List

          One of the ways I coach myself each day before trading begins is to say to myself “Don’t do anything stupid”. When I quit doing stupid things that is when I started being consistently profitable year after year.  You can do all your homework for trading, you can write your

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Ed Seykota: Greatest Trader of All Time?

          “Mr. Seykota himself has put together a money management track record with returns of roughly +60% net of fees over the three-decade span of his trading career…” -Futures Magazine Ed Seykota, first featured in the book  Market Wizards has one of the best records of all time for any trader.

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earnings

How To Play Earnings?> Don’t. Here are Ten Reasons Why

          What a week we have had with earnings, many plunges. Even for the markets beloved Apple. When talking heads on CNBC straight talking about “buying opportunities” and “investors” start trying to put an earnings miss into “perspective” we are generally in trouble. What many of the big call option bettors

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