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Here Are Some Fun Links for Your Weekend Reading
Election years are interesting. Many believe that the Presidential Election Cycle affects the stock market. Perhaps there is an easier explanation … Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting. Lighter Links: Rocks In Their Heads? Deep-Pockets Dreamers Pursue Asteroid Mining. (TheDaily) What Is Strategy?
Should You Sell in May and Go Away?
What you choose to look at … matters. Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. ~ Albert Einstein A close look at trading in May shows a pretty clear negative bias. Here is a 10-minute bar chart of what's happened since May 1st on the S&P 500
Putting Things in Perspective: Visualization Shows Scale of the Universe
As a trader, I'm surprised by how different the market can look on different time-frames. Getting a sense of scale is important. Sometimes the difference is bigger than you think. Click the picture to launch a fascinating data visualisation created by Michael and Cary Huang. It is an interactive virtual scale of our universe that
Who's Going to the Trader Expo in Dallas?
Join David Stendahl, portfolio manager at Capitalogix, at the Traders Expo in Dallas Texas June 6 – 8. David will be talking about effective way to build diversified futures portfolios. Click here for more information. I'll be there too. Let me know if you're going … looking forward to seeing you at the
Michael Covel's Trend Commandments
Michael Covel was the keynote speaker at this year's Market Technicians Association Annual Symposium. Covel has made a name for himself as a chronicler of the Turtle Trading experiment and an outspoken proponent of trend following. Here is a photo of him and me at the Symposium. Truth be told, I often sit
Sector Rotation Shows Defensive Posture - Even Though Earnings Are Strong
One of the ways to measure the mood of the stock market is to see what sector rotations are taking place beneath the surface. This chart shows that sector rotations over the past month reflect a market mood that is turning more defensive. John Murphy explains: The four sector lines are plotted "relative"