the silver short side trade has been a good one. but the easy money there (its never easy really) has been made I think. weakness across the board in the indices. this is the silver short side trade has been a good one. but the easy money there (its never easy really) has been made […]
Category: management
May 04, 2011: after market call
lucrative short side silver trade in ZSL continued today i hope you guys can see the value of the “Hold ‘x’ days” report in the daily as a way of calibrating the kinds of moves that can get whipped up in this ocean of a market keep your powder dry pay attention to those boundaries […]
May 03, 2011 closing call on silver
Silver shortside trade (long ZSL from 14.50, 15, and 15.25 for the record) finished its 3d excellent day, as it tests the max %loss over 5 days in the last 10 years. The rebalancing of portfolios based on margin requiremnts looks to be the main driver here, but the fundamentals of silver as a hedge, […]
Reflecting on the “Flavor of the Month” at the High Reliability interest group on LinkedIn
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Knee-jerk meets policy
this is the very definition of a knee-jerk reaction. What does our Libyan policy havein common with a knee-jerk? it’s autonomic: without conscious thought or reasoning it’s an uncontrolled spasm it could trigger an uncontrolled, uncontrollable series of equally uncomcious responses it’s unconnected to a strategy, a plan, a vision of the future it’s a […]
Reflections on food and education in geopolitical ju-jitsu
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110222/ap_on_re_us/us_wisconsin_budget_unions continuing discussions over the role of funding & negotiating teacher salaries in Wisconsin And after the quote below, one must wonder why the parents of Wisconsin school children should be so eager to get these teachers back In the National Assessment of Educational Progress tests administered by the U.S. Department of Education in 2009—the […]
The power of water, and reflections on critical thinking
Image via Wikipedia A testimony to the power of water, in recent Australian floods. www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?video_id=kYUpkPTcqPY Water level in rivers follows the Log-Pearson 3 probability distribution(see attached picture) Tightly clustered around the mean, with little variation, and a limit on how far the left hand tail can go (ie “dry”) The right hand tail though is […]