Market in Bull Normal; Market is Overbought on a short term basis Equities have broken through the previous swing high, with signs of confidence in Asia less Japan and Europe emerging US Dollar plummets to its lowest point in years. Precious metals, commodities, energy of any type are dominating, especially silver (which is beginning to […]
Month: April 2011
Breakout gathers strength
SPY’s breakout adds another day of strength as technology begins to recover its strength: MSFT, CSCO, INTC all doing better than SPY today Silver showing some topping behavior today; tomorrow will text the bull committment
Market breakthrough finally
SPY finally broke thru 135 for the first time since mid-Feb. It remains to be seen if it can hold above 135, but its been knocking on the door for weeks. SLV had its first day of pullback in recent memory. All the metals futures are up and so it remains to be seen how […]
A belief mapping exercise concerning intraday trading
Stream-of-consciousness belief-mapping exercise on initial stops, moving to no lose, and intraday trade strategies Small fast losses are an expected result in my intraday trading because I am specifically looking for reversals that explode, with tight stops. Where I buy them, if they don’t reverse and pop, then normal behavior is to continue the selling […]
Silver futures weakness
uncharacteristic weakness in the silver futures overnight, stabilizing after down $2 oz; this is about a 4.5% discount; i’d be surprised if voume didnt come in to buy silver on sale and erase the deficit Related articles Silver surges to 31-year high, gold hits new record (telegraph.co.uk) Silver Flirts With $50 (online.wsj.com) The S.L.A (Silver […]
Tortoise daily trading plan review
Silver showed some topping behavior, and after an unbelievably good run its time to preserve profits in the face of intraday selling pressure. Maintain a core position in silver, and revert to tactical trading in both directions to take advantage of the uncreased liquidity Best swing trade candidates on the basis of reward:risk ratios: Google, […]
The effect of learning preference on stress management in peak performance moments
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/09/the-tight-collar-the-new-science-of-choking/ interesting use of the auditory channel to improve performance when under stress i do the same thing with the use of drum solos to help me concentrate when trading at key moments in the trading day classic chokes — appear to rise from the process known colloquially as “thinking too much” or “paralysis through […]
Educating professional practice by emphasizing worked examples
this essay discusses the challenge of educating computer science students on writing professional quality production code. It informs our own inquiry into what to teach at CGSC and how to teach it. I think it has a lot to say about what we should be emphasizing for our staff officers. One of our graduating seniors […]
The importance of being “gritty”
am collecting data now in 3 different areas to support my research into the effects of using Participatory Action Research to conduct curriculum design that focuses on the experiences of faculty and students to drive the selection of topics, and the content of lessons that are satisfying to them, as opposed to the traditional method […]
charts of interest and some visual framing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRUNSN_jGbc charts of interest from the weekend report of Apr 24, 2011 some strength in the US techs; i also like the support being found in DBA and DBC, ag and blended commodities, respectively