Readers who know me well will know that other than Trading & Financial Markets one of my many other interests is Military Aviation in particular Air-To-Air Combat with a special emphasis on the Battle of Britain. As 3rd generation Royal Air Force that shouldn’t come as much of a surprise. On the 24th March of [...]

Fellow Traders, For those of you who maybe attending the London World Money Show on Saturday 12/11/2011 you maybe interested to watch yours truly in action! I’m taking part in a panel discussions entitled ‘The Good, The Bad & The Ugly: Lessons Learned’ which is about our experiences of 2011.  We’re on between 1630 & [...]

Ladies & Gentlemen, “They asked for an article and for my sins I gave them one. And after this article they’ll never want another.” (With apologies to Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now!) I was asked to write an article for Traders’ Magazine and decided to try to write something a bit different from the normal [...]

“Private traders have one advantage over professionals – the ability to stay OUT of the market, yet they squander this advantage time and time again by trading when they shouldn’t” - Dr. Alexander Elder Wise words indeed by Dr. Elder and a principle I’ve followed in these last 48 hours where I’ve taken a hiatus from trading [...]

This post is courtesy John C.Lee’s Charts gone wild blog which I read on Stocktwits today.  John provides a good article about Jesse Livermore and his exploits on what would have been his birthday. It’s worth reading to learn more about Jesse Livermore and also to read some of his famous (and still relevant) quotes. Enjoy http://chartsgonewild.com/2011/07/26/happy-birthday-jesse-livermore/

Hello all, I’ ll post some of my trades  over the weekend.  However before that I thought I’d better draw your attention to an opportunity to see me speak at the Traders & Investors Forum at The International Traders’ Expo on Saturday 9th April. Regardless of whether you wish to listen to my dulcet tones or [...]

I’ve often mentioned about traders working with scared money and the negative influence it can have on performance.  I was going to write my own specific piece on this however as luck would have it I found a better option by Chicago Sean.  I couldn’t explain it any better than he does in his piece.  [...]

After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting. – Jesse Livermore

Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face. — Mike Tyson

I can claim no credit for this piece but it’s a great way for traders and non-finance types to understand the predicament of Ireland and the economic system in general.  This was attached to the comments on Robert Peston’s latest post on his BBC blog. The piece itself was shamelessly lifted from ZeroHedge. Enjoy. Mary is the [...]