Some of you on twitter might know I have recently purchased an Kindle Wireless Reading Device (6″ Display, Global Wireless, Latest Generation)
After reading on it for the past 2 days, all I can say is , I am loving it! This is a great gadget will allow me to carry a lot of books while traveling to Asia starting next week.
Here is a snapshot of my Kindle. Guess, what am I reading now?
Btw If you are thinking of a Christmas gift for your loved ones, I thought this is a brilliant gift.
Today more and more investors are warming to the fact that psychology moves markets and therefore fundamental analysis, which fails to properly measure mass investor psychology, must be flawed.
Who can blame them? After all, fundamental analysis — based on past company earnings, rating agency projections and the like — proved to be of little value during the bust.
There is a better way.
Many investors who monitor investor sentiment readings, study Elliott wave patterns and employ other powerful technical indicators were — at very least — able to position themselves to survive the recent decline. Still others were able to turn crisis into opportunity and profit from the volatility.
How’d they do it?
Technical analysis.
You see, technical indicators remove the cloudy, bias-driven assumptions from your analysis and focus on the one thing that moves markets: investor psychology.
Past performance is not indicative of future results — and that’s where fundamental analysis goes wrong. It fails to factor in the psychology that not only moves markets up and down but also leads analysts to extrapolate the current or past trend into the future. That’s why fundamental analysts almost always miss major tops and bottoms.
Folks over at Elliott Wave International employ the largest team of technical analysts in the world. They recognize that optimism peaks before market tops and pessimism troughs before market bottoms. They use powerful and sometimes unconventional tools to help identify psychological extremes that signal high-probability turning points.
EWI’s brand-new 50-page eBook, The Ultimate Technical Analysis Handbook, will show you the various methods of technical analysis they use every day and teach you how to use these powerful tools for yourself.
If you’re a technician, this eBook is perfect for you. If you’re a fundamentals follower, it’s more important than ever that you give technical analysis a closer look. Even if you never completely abandoned your fundamental indicators, you WILL benefit from drawing on these valuable technical tools.
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I read a recent blog post on TraderFeed. This caught my attention, echoing my mind.
Traders need to develop ways of seeing markets that are unique to them, that make sense for them, that fit their risk tolerance and lifestyle, and that best make use of their skills and talents. Simply giving traders ideas could actually stunt their development, much like doing a child’s homework for them.
An important challenge in trading is that there is typically more valuable information streaming from markets than a single individual can reasonably process on their own….
That is the main reason why I hardly, or never use service like Stocktwits. OK, I am not against Stocktwits. It is a brilliant idea from some entrepreneurs. But, is it really useful for trader’s development? Well, Caveat emptor. Personally, I do not find it to be useful for my own development. To me, it is just a stream of random tweets, good or bad of so called ‘trading ideas’, valuables and junks, marketing of premium services, repeated links etc. But, this is just me. I believe, some users are finding it to be helpful to them. By all means, go for it. I’ll leave it to you to decide, and please, do not try to argue in the comment why I am wrong. I don’t care.
Instead of wasting time following somebody, I guess, it will be better off for trader to be away from social networking, and develop his own view, own way of seeing markets. With that skills, then the streams of tweets might give you some good ideas.
Here is an video produced by Adam about currencies trading and how do tools from marketclub help to analyze the trend and time the your entry. Pretty good stuff. Check it out.
When I first started looking into automated trading system development, particularly in currencies trading, Metatrader is always one of the candidates. The main problem with Metatrader , in my opinion, is without reputable broker. No, not another debate about Forex brokers. When your account grows bigger you will have more concerns over these issues.
Back to ATS, one of the reasons I like Metatrader is that there are full of free resources (craps as well) around the internet. Here are some links that I’ve found over the past weeks during my program development.
Enjoy! And Happy New Year. Here is to a prosperous 2009.
My ATS (or should I say semi-ATS) programming work continues. Expert advisor of my Really Dumb Trend Catch system has been running since early this week, well, of course, in demo account. It is doing what it is supposed to do. So, not too bad, I am happy with it. I am working on setting up email alert system now. The basic idea of my semi-automation is to run the system at home, alerts me via email, so I can enter and manage my positions from office. This is essential to me since Metatrader connection is blocked in my work place. At the same time, the system is also taken care by my private full time trader at home — my wife! 😆
Here is the work flow of my semi ATS .
Here is the example of my trading screen now:
On the side note, I have just received my executive office chair. Pretty cool and comfortable. Now, I can trade from home , in the bossy mafia style…:lol:
