I’ll still be throwing up charts here and at Chart.ly, but check out my new blog on minimalism in trading at http://www.passagesthrough.wordpress.com

This blog is a necropolis of dead, decaying, defunct chart patterns from months and years gone by. Why the morbid analogy, you say? Because when the Drop D-tuning doom metal you’re rocking whilst writing inane trading blog scree just isn’t low enough, you do what you can to compensate by dropping vague reference evocative of [...]

Well, me I meant. Still around; still trading (you don’t think I’d miss the opportunity to make a mockery of my self-acclaimed technical prowess with such schizophrenic price action, do you?); just not finding the writing of blog posts my primary or favored mode of expression (and by that I mean nothing artistic) lately. Instead, [...]

I just stumbled upon something notable: the Market Technicians Association maintains a study/examination program for certification as a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). Interestingly enough, this isn’t pure fluff (my initial suspicion, anyway), and while the MTA no doubt derives some monetary benefit from the typically exorbitant examination fees and all the ancillaries (flash cards, test [...]

So you’re making great strides in maturation as a forex trader, demonstrated nowhere more clearly than the handsome profits you’ve booked in your brokerage account over the past year. Congratulations – that’s a whole lotta scrilla you banked there, pipster. Or, maybe your strides were interrupted by a loose shoelace around mid-May or whenever – [...]

Rather than make several dozen abortive attempts to blog consistently, I skipped over the inevitable fits and starts the events of the last year would have – and did – exert by writing nothing here. The routinized convulsive (regular irregularity, like flailing seizures set off perfunctorily, as if by stopwatch) rhythm of tidily drawn up [...]