Dear everybody (or nobody and all of the crickets chirping in the background),
After many months of care-free and random posts, I have finally been persuaded to bifurcate my content.
Here is why: My family and friends don’t care for the professional perspectives and my peers in the industry don’t care for the “daddy blogs.” Oh, and [...]
Category Archives: Trading
GOOD NEWS! NO MORE MARKET TALK!
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
NASDAQ Market Replay is HOT!
Friday, August 8, 2008
If you ever wanted to really see WHO moves (or moved) the market, this is the application that shows you everything. This is especially helpful for those paranoid types who think that the market maker is targeting their stop-loss just to screw them. Now you have proof that it is just supply and demand.
Covestor or myTRADE?
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
http://www.covestor.com/mbr/1modelcitizen
For greatest credibility (verifies risk assumptions and real money returns) - Hands down, it is COVESTOR.
For greatest all-around information feeds, qualified traders, and entertainment, my hat is off to myTRADE.
https://www.mytrade.com/BrianKeithAnderson
If you are considering trading - both are free, and are my top two picks for investing social sites above ALL OTHERS. p.s. (as always, click the images to see full-sized [...]
Regulators Shut Down Two More Big Banks
Friday, July 25, 2008
Who needs all of those tellers anyways? Fact of the matter is that THE ONLY WAY for the Federal Reserve to avoid a run on banks is to close ALL banks and replace them with ATMs. Most of the industry is sustained by electronic tickers, timers and tapes, so why continue with the expense of [...]
IndyMac or Indian-head Money?
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Don’t say I didn’t warn you about this. If I lived in Cali, I’d be camping on the front porch of my bank this weekend the same way I would to get a U2 concert ticket. Remember, first come, first served. You can cancel your electronic payments later. It’s not “All about the Benjamins” anymore, it’s back to [...]
Not a Real Bull Market
Thursday, July 10, 2008
The bullish prices recently should not be confused with a bull market. I’m convinced that, like the guy pulling the rope to control the ride and influence the rider’s reaction in the photo above, we are just getting jerked around. Until total transparency exists in the market, democratization (or equal chances of success) is impossible.
For [...]
My Tribute to John Templeton (RIP)
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
His views on the economy were published in Forbes yesterday and his obit is in BusinessWeek today. To me, he was the embodiment of a contrarian extraordinaire. It takes nerves of steel to buy into a panic, but it also takes considerable judgement to call the bottom on the price. In essence, he believed that Wall Street was [...]
U.S. Farmers Make Billions Overseas, then lose it.
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
A few months back, my older brother called to pat me on the back (he’s always good like that). He had just watched a very positive segment on CNN about farmers making bank locally and abroad. Knowing that I was in negotiations for a big dirt patch, he was happy for me.
He then related a [...]
Wikinancial is sloppy and will be shut down soon because…
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Yeah, yeah, I know, who am I to criticize their spelling and inability to keep track of time when I can’t even get this image to load without it blurring. Sorry to wear out your clicker fingers, but to see this image, please click it.
Umair Haque
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
“It’s a betrayal as deep, perhaps, as that of Wall Street.” is the statement that caught my interest. It made me wonder, when was Silicon Valley ever not Wall Street? Which intellectual or physical property was ever created in Silicon Valley and not “monetized?”
Okay, even though there are several flaws in this man’s assumptions (click here to [...]
Starvation is a Great Motivator
Monday, April 21, 2008
The International Monetary Fund recently declared that the US has not seen times like this since the 1930’s. Well, the above photo was taken in that time frame. So who cares about financial markets, right?
Well, after money fails, food is next. Here are two articles, one regarding domestic subsistence conditions, the other regarding International subsistence [...]
Liked it then, like it now.
Friday, April 4, 2008
The new Grid Charts make me happy, like a trip down memory lane with ABBA. Click the image and enjoy the flashback.
Silver Dollars in the Eyes of a Dead Economy
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
The phrase, “wait till you see the whites of their eyes boys” is rendered by economists as: “wait till you see the silver in their eyes boys.” Always remember that the death of any fiat currency has a silver lining (or gold, or diamond, etc.).
Some bugs survive ice ages - they are called Gold Bugs
Friday, February 15, 2008
Have you seen the U.S. currency lately? It is cheap tin. Any model citizen could get more precious metal from the lid off a Copenhagen can. At least the Mexicans and Canadians and Tobacco companies have fairly good art on their coins. Were it not for these equally worthless and ugly fiat currencies that the [...]
mytrade user agreement, the secret is in the sauce
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Click to read the fine print…
