seems to me that FOTM get their sharp edges rubbed off in practice (or subjected to pressure-thru-use at the industrial level) until what remains, if anything is a gem or simply the speck of sand that became the pearl. Every Aesop’s fable or Canterbury tale or Lao Tzu aphorism is rendering of an essential truth of […]
Category: Creativity
May 03: premarket
Silver failed to fail further in the overnight trade, leading us to hypothesize that it has found a local support level, which will lead to another round of buying once fear of a bubble collapse has subsided. This will make it easier to see this as “silver on sale!” rather than the end of a […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sharing my BrainMode power report
wanted to share out my BrainMode power (BMp) report. BRAIN MODE power for Professional Development for Ken Long Quite a few folks had expressed interest in learning more about BMp, so I thought I would share mine and how I will use it in my trading practice As/if you read further, Notice the auditory, visual, […]
Chatroom reflections on analyzing new ideas
In the chatroom, we were discussing what to do if your target symbol in the 551w system (a system we like) gapped above your mechanical entry (a price we define as an entry in the non-discretionary ruleset), which led to this stream of consciousness dialogue: As an exercise, take a sheet of paper and […]
Battle ready, brain ready: a stream of consciousness reflection
(from an e-mail conversation with a new friend, the inventor of Brainmode power), Stephen asked me to reflect upon the phrase: Battle ready, brain ready. This was my stream of consciousness: it seems to me that brain state is an integral part of every behavior or cognitive process. for instance, we use a number of […]
the high frontier of graduate education
my take on the internal/external elements of AQAL as it connects to our role in higher education, is that we have an obligation to be a critical mirror for our students we engage with them to mutually learn critical thinking skills, and we give them feedback from deep in our own experience and research. at […]
New trading technique videos
a 14 min discussion of Green Zone- Yellow Zone trading that we covered in the webinar tonight http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ex8ONxC640 a 19 min discussion of strategies for trading the “Gap fail” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKWN6CzpN8k
Reflections on risk management in organizations
Book review notes from “Surviving and thriving in uncertainty: Creating the risk intelligent enterprise” by Frederick Funston and Steven Wagner. Funston, F., & Wagner, S. (2010). Surviving and thriving in uncertainty: creating the risk intelligent enterprise. Jphn Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ. I was led to this book during our environmental scanning for higher education. […]