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The Gold Market Fights Back

Funny that its only defined as market manipulation if you are on the wrong side of the trade. Quite a long winded article for basically just saying you are a gold bull and talking your book.

The Age of Turbulence: Preparing for the Crash

Article usefulness inverse to the word count or put more eloquently about as useful as an ashtray on a motorcycle

Updated Case-Shiller 100 Year Real Estate Chart

Projection implies prediction and sadly the general public often takes it as gospel. Throwing in a 'might' is a lame way of hedging your projection may prove to be inaccurate and save face if that is the case. It might be sunny tomorrow or then it might not. Having said that I still find the chart fascinating despite the dotted red line.

Updated Case-Shiller 100 Year Real Estate Chart

Thanks for the chart. The dotted red-line projection is about as useful as an ashtray on a motorcycle given that nobody can predict the future.

Barron’s Confidence Index Indicates Bottoming for Equities

PdP...surely you can do better than that. The market should go up, but it might also go down. Save some ink next time and cut your words of wisdom short.

What's Behind This Bear Market Rally

GS don't have to pay the money back because AIG had a contractual obligation to cough up additional colateral on their derivative bets that went sour. Last I checked contract law was still valid in the USA despite the current administration removing officers of public companies in the name of greater good for the country.

What's Behind This Bear Market Rally

As I take advantage of the recent rally (call it whatever you want) I love the people who are flat or short whose protests keep getting louder.

Bespoke Reader Poll: Dow 5,000 It Is

there were no votes for higher year end levels? contrarians pee in their pants over data like this

Shorting the Four Horsemen as Market Grinds Lower?

If you are shorting the QQQQ rather than executing a more cost effective way through a long QID position my guess is you also spend more time writing blog entries than actually trading.

How Will Temporary Decline in Oil Prices Impact Energy Sector?

bottom pickers get smelly fingers Luke Booktalker

World Currencies Play 'Meet Me at the Bottom'

Sounds like the author should be renamed 'Luke Booktalker' and belongs in the same category as a famous Texan proclaiming crude will not fall below 100 while long up to the eyeballs in the stuff (just before the next leg to sub 60 got underway)

12 Thoughts on Trading Stress and Emotion

Your 12 point list directly addresses the point that MSmailbox seems to be missing. 'Becoming a very poor trader' is not something like catching a cold. I believe one is either improving through accurate record keeping and learning from mistakes or alternatively relying on the 'hope and pray method'. Unfortunately in my experience turning toward a higher divine power does little in bringing a losing position back to break even or goes back and executes a mental stop or cancelled hard stop. Of course this person could be trading Olive Oil futures and I may be completely wrong.