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For months I have been discussing on Market Shrinkology and messaging on StockTwits about the high level of sentiment volaitility and how it is a critical compnent of the landscape across equity, options and commodities markets. It is the reason why Steven Place’s blog post this morning on the coming vol break on $BIDU…
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Sun Tzu wrote The Art of War more than 2500 years ago and it remains a basic text for those studying military history and strategy. Its also a great read for traders because it captures the required mindset of a warrior when the game is zero sum. Specific quotes may resonate with a trader…
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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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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,…