Frontrunning.
The days, weeks, and maybe months ahead will reveal bits and pieces of last week’s attempted trading coup, filling gaps in our collective understanding of what took place, in just one more crazy story of a bizarre year. At present, the press and pundits have…
The market continues to rise and volatility continues to fall — somewhat. Although the relationship between market…
Near misses really sting, but they are inevitable if unpredictable. Sometimes the best laid plans fall to pieces due to a mis-timing error — even one as little as fifteen seconds, or however long it took me to walk from my office to my kitchen. When the market…
Somewhere in middle school, American students learn about the nature of negative numbers. Through intuition or a quick logical stroll, the keener young mathematicians know that the subtraction of a negative number resulted in a more positive difference. And so it is with…
Few things frustrate as much as the “near miss.” Couple a “near miss” with a “patient plan unrealized,” and you’ve got yourself the ultimate in angry vexation.
That’s my self-analysis on why my trading performance yesterday left me in a…
…and the bottom.
I can’t pick market tops and bottoms. Anyone who tells you that they can is a liar, and those that can aren’t going to tell you.
Online brokerage firms love to tout their magical software that enables hapless…