Tag: market psychology
Investors: Beware The Certainty Trap
Data availability is something of a double-edged sword in today’s financial markets. On the one hand, we now have a nearly unlimited supply of...
The Art Of Trading And The Illusion Of Control
I’ve written and said many times before that simplicity is a good thing—if you have a trading methodology that is overly complex, there’s a...
NASDAQ 5000: A Look At The 2000 Market Top vs 2015
If we turn back the clock to the year 2000, investors were frothing over fruitless tech companies with outsized price to earnings ratios (P/Es). I...
All Time Highs Are Bullish For Stocks. So Why Are These...
All time highs are bullish almost all the time; and with 41 of them in the 221 trading days year-to-date (18.6% of the time),...
Trading Wisdom from the Desert – I: Process Over Outcome
Expect only what happens in the fight. That way you’ll never be surprised.
— recollected from Duncan Idaho, the Swordsmaster of the Ginaz, by Paul
Before...
The Doom of Markets
It is the doom of men that they forget.
-- Merlin
Beginning late last Summer, catastrophic market sell off analogs regained their seasonal popularity. Then, out...
Bitcoin: 12 Hours of Pillage, Murder and Exhilaration
Bitcoin's last 12 hours have been a psych ward of paranoid price schizophrenia.
For anyone who walked away after yesterday's Senate Department of Homeland Security...
The Second Bitcoin Blow Off
Yesterday, we commemorated (if it can be called that) Bitcoin's first break above $450 with a post over on Tumblr drawing comparison between its...