Tag Archives: Greed

A great piece on how to understand the predicament of Ireland and the economic system in general.

November 26, 2010

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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 […]

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Tuesday 16/03/10 3 x Trades for +45

March 16, 2010

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Last week was a successful week for me financially in the markets and so after a long weekend away in Edinburgh watching the rugby I was ready to ease myself back into the markets this morning. Yesterday looked like it was a cracking day on the Forex markets selling Sterling.  I hope readers helped themselves to some […]

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Monday 8/3/10 – Fighting Back on the EURJPY – +17

March 8, 2010

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Overall last week was a positive one….though I’m starting to investigate my reasons for trading the first week of the month.  More on that another time.  This morning has been an interesting one.  I started with some standard early morning breakouts on Cable and EURJPY, both went long and  both went positive…..before falling back and […]

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What Type of Trader are you? Greed Based Traders vs Fear Based Traders.

December 7, 2009

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There are plenty of ways to define what type of trader you are but lets start with a simple yet immensely effective exercise. Fear & Greed are the dominant emotions expressed in the markets on a day-to day basis (we can go deeper than this however for the sake of his article we’ll keep it nice and […]

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