Here is a snapshot of one of our bread and butter intraday trading techniques: the “Snapping Turtle” technique which in Coca Cola (symbol: KO) turned in another reliable trade as the market melted up today. Chart 1 reflects the situation at the moment of entry. Our analysis suggested that if price were to move thru […]
Tag: psychology
Profitable ETF Trading techniques: Finding a quality Mastermind Trading Group
Finding a mastermind that’s right for you. In a previous article I described some of the ideal qualities of a Mastermind for traders and the reasons why the social connections and personal support are so important fr the lonely profession of trading. Maintaining emotional balance and energy are so important in this career. How […]
Profitable ETF Trading Techniques; 10 qualities of a good Mastermind group
What can a mastermind do for you? Why should this be part of your trading practice? What are the qualities of a good mastermind? Trading can be a very lonely profession particularly with online trading through a deep discount broker. At the same time trading places tremendous psychological pressures on you to win or at […]
A thought experiment in leadership and identity
Here is a thought experiment to get your mental juices flowing Who am I? a multi-billion dollar enterprise with a long and distinguished history, filled with notable achievements, and some dismal failures have for held a position of international leadership for decades associated with a core function of any modern nation and economy provides products […]
I am hopeful we can change from tax cheats to violators of privacy
Now this is the kind of change we can all hope for: President Obama’s nominee for secretary of theNavy was involved in a divorce that drew national attention for his secret taping of a conversation between his wife and his family priest that he used against her in court proceedings. Did Team Obama runout of tax […]
Reflective learning and Self Talk
At our trading workshop this weekend, wr reviewed a numbver of what I consider to be milion dollar ideas: ideaswhich, over the course of a lifetime should produce a net value add greater than a million dollars in trading performance. While we were doing that in the middle of our assembled traders and institutional money […]
Leadership in Complex Adaptive Systems
Team Obama is placing their bets on the idea of Leadership being responsible for results. The latest manifestation of this is in the call for the resignation of the CEO of GM, Rick Wagoner. The proposition is that Obama, from his vantage point of President, USA (CEO, USA?) is in a position to determine that […]
Reflections on Validity in qualitative research
Was working on my final draft for my research proposal and had the following reflection about the issue of Validity in qualitative research. Since I am aiming for transformational changes in our strong military culture, and am using individual Voice (narratives, stories , interviews etc) as the basis for describing the current situation and […]
Reflections on Qualitative Research techniques: interviewing
Wow 1: Lofland and Lofland p.37. “…It is precisely the “spy quality” of covert research in closed settings that raises questions about it propriety in social science” It strikes me that even if you take care to protect individuals by withholding their names, your results may end up introducing harm if the organization you are […]
Force Generation curriculum project update
In one of our top level curriculum review meetings yesterday, our Deputy Commandant mentioned in his concluding remarks that there was a real “buzz” in the Army among the senior leaders concerning “Force Generation”, and he attributed it to the initiative I have been describing here which is holding out a lot of promise for […]