This is a Guest Post by AK of Fallible AK has been an analyst at long/short equity investment firms, global macro funds, and corporate economics departments. He co-founded Macro Ops and is the host of Fallible. Humans evolved over millions of years, spending a majority of their time roaming the planet as tribal hunters and […]
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This is a Guest Post by AK of Fallible AK has been an analyst at long/short equity investment firms, global macro funds, and corporate economics departments. He co-founded Macro Ops and is the host of Fallible. This episode of Real Vision’s The One Thing with AK Fallible is all about the Federal Reserve and how
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This is a guest post by Mike Semlitsch who is a trader and software developer with a proven track record of helping novice and intermediate traders succeed in trading the financial markets. Driven by a passion to help others, he takes pride in creating and providing the best trading systems and indicators possible. As the
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Markets like to price in the future, the more unknowns the more trouble a market will have trending in one direction. The greater the unresolved risk the more volatility that will occur as traders and investors work to price in the possibilities and probabilities of event risk. Here are the headlines in the fourth quarter
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This is a Guest Post by: Troy Bombardia @bullmarketsco his website is BullMarkets.co. As I explained in today’s special report, our Macro Investing Index has been deteriorating since August/September 2018. This stands in sharp contrast with the 10% correction from this January – February 2018, when the U.S. macro economy was healthy. This is typical
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Chart courtesy of StockCharts.com Last week the China Tariff news event was another sell the news event. This is the second sale the news event, the first was the mid term election relief rally was also sold into. The chart is currently in a huge trading range inside a correction. The 100 day SMA
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In trading there are two sides of the game, how much you can make when a trade is a winner and also how much you can lose when a trade does not work out. It is like in sports where you have to play both offense and defense, there are two sides of a game,
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Here are 10 things that new traders can do that doom them to be unprofitable. The quicker a new trader can change these behaviors the quicker they can get on the right path to be profitable when the market is conducive to their trading method. Not doing any homework before putting real money at risk
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Here is an interview I did with @CaseyStubbs for the Finance and Markets Podcast.
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Did you know that the forex market is the largest market in the world? In fact, the foreign exchange market is so big that no other market can even dream about competing with it. Most people assume that the stock market is the largest market in the world since it’s the one that you hear
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This is a Guest Post by AK of Fallible AK has been an analyst at long/short equity investment firms, global macro funds, and corporate economics departments. He co-founded Macro Ops and is the host of Fallible. What the heck is going on with oil??? Why have prices crashed over 30% in the last few months?
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This is a Guest Post by: Troy Bombardia @bullmarketsco his website is BullMarkets.co. Market outlook: bull market tops are a process The U.S. stock market rallied last week and was sitting just under its 200 day moving average. Source: Investing.com The economy’s fundamentals determine the stock market’s medium-long term outlook. Technicals determine the stock market’s
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Chart Courtesy of StockCharts.com $SPY set off bullish reversal signals by closing over the 50 day, 200 day, and 250 day moving averages on Friday. The Fed chairman’s dovish comments lead the markets to believe that they could be more accommodative on monetary policy than previously thought. $SPY finished higher than the previous close
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“I will be first to admit that charts do NOT forecast price – they show path of least resistance and provide an excellent risk management tool” – Peter L. Brandt Boolean logic reacts off how the pattern plays out. It is just probabilities not predictions. Boolean logic is named after a nineteenth-century mathematician, George Boole.
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This is a Guest Post by AK of Fallible AK has been an analyst at long/short equity investment firms, global macro funds, and corporate economics departments. He co-founded Macro Ops and is the host of Fallible. What could Rick Rubin, legendary music producer, know about trading? Well, that’s what we’re going to find out
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The ego is a person’s sense of self-esteem or self-importance. The ego is a mental construct that can be both on a conscious and unconscious level. An ego is the self concept that a person tries to protect and keep safe from pain and destruction. A trader has to trade the math and their own
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This is a Guest Post by AK of Fallible AK has been an analyst at long/short equity investment firms, global macro funds, and corporate economics departments. He co-founded Macro Ops and is the host of Fallible. In this video we’re going to talk about the dangers of algorithmic trading in the stock market. Cathy O’Neil
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This is a Guest Post by: Colibri Trader @priceinaction. This article is used here with permission and originally appeared here on ColibriTrader.com. Dear traders, This last week I had a couple of trading ideas that initially looked great on the chart, but then failed. So, why did they not work out? First Failed
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This is a Guest Post by: Troy Bombardia @bullmarketsco his website is BullMarkets.co. Market outlook: most market’s around the world are falling. What’s next The U.S. stock market has made a 61.8% bounce and now retested its lows, which is the standard pattern for these fast 10%+ corrections. “Drop, pop, and slop” Source: Investing.com Now
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After being asked several times what the best order to read my books in I decided to write this post as a go to place to direct people interested in learning about trading by reading my books through in order to best serve them in their journey. Investing Habits is the book to read if
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