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But Wal Mart wound up engineering the American public to frenzy lunatic fringe style leading up to and then on the day after Thanksgiving. Pulling us about by our opioid receptors until we found ourselves waking up at 1130pm (a half an hour before we went to sleep) to stand in line so that…
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Yesterday, I spent some time with my pal Vic Scherer discussing his path to becoming a successful trader and also the market statistics and persistence lists he compiles on his Daytrend Blog.
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On last night’s program, I discussed the psychological components of the recent sell off, highlighting those that are most telling including: 1. Blow off technical patterns among market leaders such as $LVS. 2. Rally in speculative names. 3. Extreme bullish shorter term sentiment readings. 4. Poor guidance from a tech bellweather – $CSCO. Alone,…
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Last night on StockTwits.TV’s Market Shrinkology Program, I went into much more depth regarding the Mean Reversion Heuristic that I blogged about yesterday. If you found that post interesting, I think you will enjoy the program as I go much deeper into the evolutionary basis of this tendency as well as answer questions from…
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Last week, I had the privilege of joining Marc Pearlman (no relation) on the You Money Matters Radio Program. This was a special treat as Marc is very knowledgeable in the areas of market psychology and behavioral finance and so he asked a bunch of great questions and just the right challenging ones.
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Yesterday, my wife and I spent a couple hours with friends at California WineWorks in Mahwah, NJ. If you are a foodie and/or enjoy wines as well, this place is a must try. The concept at the wineworks is simple and brilliant. You gather up a group of friends and make a bunch of…
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On this episode of Market Shrinkology, I go into the details of a psychological model for assessing markets. This 3 pronged model examines technicals, sentiment and fundamentals and constructs a profile based on this integration of these three factors.
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Last night, SMB Capital aired a presentation on their StockTwitsTV program that I gave to their traders last week which focused on using guided visualization and relaxation to improve trading performance.
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At this moment, hedge funds are pouring over the Twitter (and StockTwits) API and they are testing their models against the market directly. Distinct from their distant cousins at the universities, they are not sharing their results (you will not hear much about this) and the veracity of their methodologies are not subject to…