Sometime every January I make a list of recurrent themes that emerged in the previous year I’d like to carry into the next. The list is not a “checklist” (the trading community is replete with those anyway), not mechanical or one of rote pragmatism; just simple aphoristic lines that I keep on an e-sticky on [...]

Another week of scant posting: tax season is killing me already, and there’s still six hellish weeks left! Been making the rounds this evening to catch up on all I missed while discussing the market all day (funny thing, that), I came across a reference from Barry Ritholtz over at TBP to Dennis Gartman’s Not-So-Simple [...]

Well, nothing so dramatic as that really. Sometime yesterday andrewunknown.com went on the blink and blog ceased redirecting, but with some techkering around the problem seems to be resolved. This is one of those mysterious occasions where something technological is inexplicably reconfigured without any human activity or intervention. No expirations, no changes, no hardware issues, [...]

No time to update on this week’s trades thus far at this point; suffice it to say it’s been a lackluster start beginning with some…well, they were patently idiotic decisions in SA1 on the Kiwi and Aussie shorts mentioned a few posts previous. Were all (or even a sufficient number of) method criteria satisfied on [...]

Rob Booker over at Piptopia published a new mini-e-book a few days ago about working through the reflexive desire to immediately compensate for, misgivings about one’s capabilities as a trader as a result of and other excruciating mental challenges that accompany a losing streak. Rob is an excellent writer because of – among other things [...]

Price action is the single inherent function of the marketplace: fractal in scope, present at all times in the tension between divergent perceptions of value and the streaming drama of supply and demand. Each trader is a free agent acting within a seamlessly fluid environment where mass alignment and antagonism coalesce out of the limitless, [...]