Stocktickr Interview

I had the pleasure of doing an interview for Stocktickr in which I tell a bit about myself and how I trade. You’re welcome to leave comments / questions and I’ll try to answer them.

Pavlov

I had internet installed, thankfully prior to the Easter/Passover holiday, and even dug out my xbox and cables from the boxes. I’ve not played my xbox for quite some time as my xbox got ’stuck’ in Singapore for a while but now I’ve got it hooked up. Anyway I put in my favourite first-person-shooter game […]

Back to Zen

I was reading one of my favourite non-trading trading books this weekend and here are a couple of interesting quotes, from Zen and the Art of Poker:
You will hit, simply by accident, after ten thousand tries at something, a rythm that you could never have hit on purpose after only a few tries. Long time […]

A lesson worth learning

TaylorTree wrote an excellent post on getting on to the ‘next level’. This is a short excerpt.
Curly: “I’ll tell you the secret to life. This one thing. Just this one thing. You stick to that and everything else don’t mean sh*t.”
Billy: “What’s the one thing?”
Curly: “That’s what you’ve got to figure out.”
City Slickers, the movie
… […]

Several trades

Market looked gree in the morning so I was looking long. My watchlist had: ATYT, VPHM, AVII and PTEN. I took three trades
PTEN - broke my entry rules on this one and paid the price of -1R
ATYT - didn’t go anywhere and ended as BE
AVII - closed at end of day for +2.1R
Total for the […]

Green in envy

Some people can write really well, and of that I’m envious, I admit. One of them is long-overdue-for-a-post Frank from West Main Street. The other is Trading Thoughts which has just published another rare gem of a post. I could just sit back and ponder on his posts for a while and enjoy the process. […]

Improving your trading, golf and other efforts

I’ve been using a new method for improving my trading over the last couple of weeks. It’s not a new indicator or a new system, it’s a simple method for improving the mental part of your trading. I borrowed it from a non-trading related book which actually focuses on golf called: Zen Golf: Mastering the […]

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