Many of you will have heard me evangelise (or maybe drone on, depending upon your view-point) about the work of Atul Gawande for 18 months or so.  In particular his book the Checklist Manifesto is an excellent read and is immensely relevant to traders.  I think its a fascinating book and I suggest it to all my clients to [...]

Hello there traders, sorry its been a while. Some of you may or may not be aware of the present correlation between the AUDJPY and the S&P 500.  There are people far smarter than I who can explain the full range and reasons  for this correlation. As a trader I just want to find good [...]

I’ve mentioned Peter Brandt’s writings before here on my blog.  Whilst I don’t trade like him there’s always some excellent advice & anecdotes on his blog that are suitable for traders regardless of their experience. In this post Peter talks about how his firm keep excellent records (a personal hobby-horse of mine as regular readers [...]

Here’s a blog post written by Tom Willard about Maxwell Maltz, Psycho-Cybernetics and trading. For those who’ve never heard of Maxwell Maltz and psycho-cybernetics I would heartily recommend all traders take the time to read and digest the book. (You can pick up a copy of the book here should you wish to read more.) [...]

For those of you who missed it, here’s my first 2-part article that I was asked to write for Traders Magazine entitled “What Traders Can Learn From Battle Managers”: Part 1 is here: TradersMagArticle29092011. Part 2 can be found here: Trading Is War – Part 2

Here’s my weekly FX strength analysis for the week beginning 25/09/2011 Weekly: 1. JPY 2.CHF 3.AUD 4.USD 5.EUR 6.GBP Ok so by my scale thats the first period for over 9 months, since the CHF was not the strongest currency(since 19/12/2010 to be exact) . Admittedly it’s only dropped to 2nd but when we look [...]

This is another great blog post by Peter Brandt.  I would heartily recommend you read and take action accordingly. Enjoy   Get ready for a big surprise! If you are a successful day trader, this post does not apply to you. However, if you are unsuccessful as a day trader, then this post might be [...]

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/

Just a quick note to say thanks to Kevin, Teresa and the gang at the Traders & Investors Club for organising the event last night and letting me speak.  It was great to get the chance to speak to so many new people and I thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to blather on about trading.  No-one [...]

Hello traders, Just a note to provide some updates.  The blog posts have been a little thin on the ground the last month or so partly due to work commitments but mostly due to Sony having my main laptop for the last month whilst they repair it.  I now have the laptop back in my [...]