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 […]

Hey traders, Most of you know that I’m primarily an FX Trader however for the last 8 months I’ve increasingly been trading the major Indices (S&P, DJ30, DAX & FTSE).  For some reason my price action strategies have been generating  nice signals, trades and results so who am I to argue? Anyway here’s a video […]

Hey Traders, Here’s my Weekly Strength Analysis for the week beginning 18/12/2011. 1. JPY. 2. CHF 3. AUD 4. USD 5. GBP 6.EUR AUD & CHF swap places but I don’t consider it to be a long-term change.  If we look at the daily strength analysis: 1. USD 2. JPY 3.GBP 4.AUD 5.CHF 6.EUR We […]

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.) […]

Hello traders, As we enter the last few weeks of 2011 and prepare for 2012 I’ve been looking at the charts and creating some snapshots of particular currencies. Last week it was the Euro and this week I’ve gone for the Aussie Dollar.   I hope you enjoy. I’ll do a few more currencies over […]

Hey traders, Here’s a blog piece by Tony Schwartz on the Harvard Business Review Blog Network on how to accomplish more by doing less. Not surprisingly if you sit at your desk from 7am till 10pm you are likely to reach a point of diminishing returns more quickly than if you work in 90 minute […]

Hello Traders, Just a quick update on my views of currency strength and weakness for the week beginning 11th Dec 2011 Weekly Strength 1. JPY 2. AUD 3. CHF 4. USD 5. GBP 6. EUR No real surprises there. JPY still the strongest and EUR the weakest.  AUD has gained in strength and CHF continues to […]

Hello fellow traders from Co Louth, Ireland where I find myself this week with my family. Its been an interesting week to hear the Irish Governments Budget and their austerity plans (and the people’s reaction) in the context of the Friday 9th Euro Summit and all that it holds.  It’s also been interesting to hear […]