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Monday, December 15, 2008

Beyond Subprime: Alt-A, Option ARMs, and Weak Financial Stocks

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Back in August, Calculated Risk pointed out some good news/bad news: subprime delinquencies had peaked, but the Alt-A rate resets don'...

Indicator Update for December 15th

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Last week's indicator review concluded that the ball was in the bull's court, as we stood at the upper end of a trading range betwe...
Sunday, December 14, 2008

Money Flow Update for December 14th

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Recall that money flow takes the dollar volume of each stock transaction and adds it to a cumulative total if that transaction occurred on a...

Why the Municipal Bond Market is in Decline

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Something interesting has been going on since the latter part of November: investment grade corporate bonds (LQD; blue line) have dramatica...
Saturday, December 13, 2008

Sector Update for December 13th

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Last week's sector update found most of the eight S&P 500 sectors that I track for Technical Strength in relatively neutral modes. ...

Trading Perspectives for a Saturday

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* A Look at Trading Screens - My recent post noted what I look at when I'm trading; thanks to several blogger/traders for sharing the...
Friday, December 12, 2008

Interlude at Week's End

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THE UNDISCOVERED LAND Edenbridge BY A LONG WAY WE CAME THERE AND WE KEPT OUR EYES PEELED WE BELIEVED IN OUR BLUEPRINT DRAWN BY THE SLIPSTR...

Trading Screens and Trading Decisions: Finding What Works for You

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A reader recently asked me to show a composite picture of my trading screens to illustrate what I watch when I'm trading. This is a ver...
Thursday, December 11, 2008

Making the Breakout Trade: Co-ordinating Time Frames

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Selling the S&P futures this afternoon was the kind of trade that can make your week; so far, it's helped mine. If you click on th...

Competitive Devaluation of the U.S. Dollar on the Way?

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The U.S. dollar has moved to multi-week lows vs. the euro (top chart) and is challenging longer-term lows vs. the yen (middle chart). Meanw...
Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Midweek Site Seeing Excursion

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* Self-Coaching : A few good reads on developing yourself as a trader; * Trading Patterns: Kevin looks at using non-confirmations in t...

Turning Goals Into Consistent Habit Patterns

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My recent post took a look at setting effective trading goals. Properly formulated, these goals focus our development , bridging our real ...
Tuesday, December 09, 2008

Credit Markets: Quality Still Counts

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We're seeing a nice contrast in performance between investment grade corporate bonds (LQD; top chart) and high yield corporates (HYG; bo...

Money Flow Lagging the Stock Market Rally

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Above we see that cumulative money flow for the Dow Industrial stocks (top chart; pink line) has not been making new highs, even as the Dow ...
Monday, December 08, 2008

Interesting Looking International ETFs

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China's ETF (FXI; top chart) has vaulted impressively above its November lows, now leading most world indexes in intermediate-term relat...

Indicator Review for December 8th

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Last week's indicator review noted, "If we cannot sustain new 20-day highs exceeding new lows in the coming week, I will expect a ...
Sunday, December 07, 2008

Setting Effective Trading Goals

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In my recent post , I described goals as bridges from the real self to our ideals. Research in psychology suggests that goals serve as tool...

Warnings for Investment Advice

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It would be nice if investment advice came with warnings like pharmaceuticals. After all, the malpractice of advisers is every bit as dange...
Saturday, December 06, 2008

Advance-Decline Line Strength and a Look at Technical Strength

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A nod to Decision Point , which tracks the advance-decline lines specific to various sectors and indexes. What we see is that, despite very...
Friday, December 05, 2008

Help Myke Find A Home for Storm

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Myke Hideous of the legendary Empire Hideous band is actually far more benign than his picture might suggest. After all, not many people ...
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Brett Steenbarger, Ph.D.
Author of The Psychology of Trading (Wiley, 2003), Enhancing Trader Performance (Wiley, 2006), The Daily Trading Coach (Wiley, 2009), Trading Psychology 2.0 (Wiley, 2015), The Art and Science of Brief Psychotherapies (APPI, 2018) and Radical Renewal (2019) with an interest in using historical patterns in markets to find a trading edge. Currently writing a book on performance psychology and spirituality. As a performance coach for portfolio managers and traders at financial organizations, I am also interested in performance enhancement among traders, drawing upon research from expert performers in various fields. I took a leave from blogging starting May, 2010 due to my role at a global macro hedge fund. Blogging resumed in February, 2014.
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