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Given its insane movements, who knows where $BTC will be by the time you read this, but as I’m typing this on Saturday evening, the cryptocurrency has lost a full 25% of its value in the span of just a few days. I remain slack-jawed they are rolling out derivative trading instruments on this thing. I mean, look, I don’t have a dog in this fight, but what if $17,300 was the peak, and this thing just craps itself back down to $1,000? The hype will vanish.
I’ll just put this sentence here so that this one post doesn’t eat up the entire blog: (more…)
I tend to think in metaphors (to a fault, probably), so I’m surprised it took me this long to figure out the state of our equity markets. In one picture:
There are few experiences in this life that will more fully expose your strengths and weaknesses like trading the markets… Mentally, emotionally, spiritually, even physically.
Before we move forward, let’s take a look back. Do you remember where you were in Oct/Nov 2014, and what was happening in the markets? The market was doing something that it had never done before. It was making a record number of daily advances. Day after day, after day…like the market had never before seen in recorded history. It was also the time when ATR-based trading was birthed out of the pain of my unseen bias. My trading moved from fundamental, to technical, and then to unbiased trading based on ATR. (more…)
I’ve been online for over a third of a century, starting with a 300 baud modem and a BBS. During the latter portion of that timespan, the age of the Internet, I’ve been exposed to countless thousands of ads, increasingly customized to my habits, purchases, search engine requests, and whatever else can be ascertained about me by my online activity.
Starting a couple of years ago, I started noticing something odd about the web sites I visited. And here she is:
