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mytrade™ is listening to smart people

I hear that there’s a new video that reveals how mytrade™ was hatched (yes, that’s a pun on the Swans). I hope to post it soon…
Here is the mytrade clip that I watched and wanted to share way back in February (today is June 30, 2008).
Here is another.
Why the delay?
Go ask your mother. (think Seuss)
Actually, if [...]

Yahoo Answer re: ThinkorSwim

A picture is worth a thousand words. Here is your answer, Timothy H.  (I tried to reply last night but the web was swamped!)

Linkedin (nice place)


This place is the best!


Knol

I’m a member. Trendy eh?

Need Help; Which stock to buy? Got it down to two.

Any of you folks any good at judging stock flesh? As I am new to the industry, I need all the help I can get. Please chime in. THANKS!!!

SWIMming is fun, especially if you FLY!

Me and my bro tossing goober around at what my wife calls “Mini Lake Maracaibo.” If you’ve been there (Venezuela), you know what she means.

It doesn’t take money to make money, it takes ideas.

Suggest current issue topics and “potential hits” for this audience. Find things that will connect with their demographic.

Huey Lewis and the News. Sing this to the power of love music: “The power of trading, is a furious thing. Makes one man rich, makes the other man sting.”

Identify the ten - twenty most frequently used [...]

When the perma bears cry “uncle,” I go short

With IV going nuts and prices pulling back, just I played the AMZN to the down-side. I hope to have caught the peak of panic today, but I left room to do it again tomorrow. My bear call spreads have one hitch: limited profit. Now I’ll check in on retracements in the FX market and go [...]

Not Mystified

There is no bullish conviction whatsoever in the recent trading days. Granted, the doji star I was wishing upon didn’t pan out. Forgive me for not predicting the ensuing deliberation pattern. However, that evening star is falling in the East this morning as the markets in China and Japan come back to earth. My buddy [...]

Now I know why fibs are found on price charts!

It is for the self-same reason that kaleidoscope and mandala images look similar!Sheesh, if it were a snake it would have bit me!

Intellectual Assets in Flesh and Blood

From the Economist, July 21: “the Big Four …say that people are their biggest assets. Their product is their employees’ knowledge and their distribution channels are the relationships between their staff and clients.”
This is a concise description of the reality that many companies and individuals need to grasp.

We find this truth to be self-evident in trading: PROVE IT

DD (double ‘D’ writer of Smartbomb) says a man’s credibility is only as good as his trading history. He is framing up a non-profit religion of trading aces. Anyone with C’s from high school can pass a Series 7 test. The bottom line here is to start an institution for successful traders. Designations such as [...]

110 mph, Amsterdam, Penny on a Train Track

Every day I break 100mph on the freeway. Today it was 111. Not popular, I know. Been doing it for 9 months now. Had a heliCOPter from Provo called on me once for it. Believe it or don’t. Some of my readers (imaginary audience from my teens will suffice) will despise me for this. But [...]

Small Plays - Equal Plays - Many Plays

Reminders that surround my trading computer screen:
Small plays, equal plays, many plays; 4:1 Reward to Risk; never use statistics without logic; get rich quick vs. get rich steady; the risk for incredible success is the very same risk for incredible failure; the News creates a story when there is none in order to justify its existence; [...]