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Learning to ask the right questions about your trading
I had the following note come in over the weekend. Not only does it say nice things about my book but is also addresses some very important points. Hi John, I bought your book because I’ve recently...
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Book Review: Bond Girl
Got an interest in Wall Street and want some fairly light-weight fiction to read? If so, Bond Girl by Erin Duffy, may fit the bill. It is, in short, the narrative of a young woman’s experience working...
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Ideas for your 2013 trader reading list
Happy New Year and welcome to 2013. Since I know many of you probably have gift cards for Amazon and the like burning a hole in your pocket, I thought I would help you spend that money by offering a up...
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Most Popular Essentials of Trading Pages in 2012
Every year I like to look back and see which blog posts got the most readership. Here is the overall list, which includes a number of oldie-but-goodie entries. An Introduction to the Fixed Income...
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More evidence of wrong-way retail
At the request of my PhD supervisor, I’ve been working on a document that will no doubt be part of my overall dissertation. It’s meant to explain retail spot forex in an academic manner (meaning...
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Starting to detail forex profitability data
Each quarter US forex brokers are required to report customer account profitability figures, a requirement which went in to force in 2010 (with data back to 2009). As of this writing, the most recent...
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Forex broker profitability figures likely overstate trader performance
A couple weeks ago I began a discussion of retail forex trader profitability with my post Starting to detail forex profitability data, which generated some meaningful exchanges in places like...
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Forex Trading – Volatility, Regulation, and Survivorship
There’s been considerable talk over the last few years about whether US regulators are killing (intentionally or otherwise) the retail forex business in the States. The latest round comes on the heels...
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Credit card bans and the future of US retail forex
Last week I brought up the subject of a prospective new NFA ban on the use of credit cards to fund accounts in retail forex. There has been considerable discussion about this, as tends to be the case...
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I am desperate, says a trader
I received the following note the other day with the subject “I am desperate”: Dear John. Thank you very much for your services, – you are doing a great job! The reason that I am writing you right now...
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Book Review: The Secrets of Economic Indicators by Bernard Baumohl
It’s taken me about a year, but I’ve finally gotten around to having a look through the 3rd edition of Bernard Baumohl’s book The Secrets of Economic Indicators. Now that I’ve done so, I really which...
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Book Review: Beating the Indexes by Bill Feingold
A book about convertible bonds may not strike one as being particularly related to trading. There are aspects to it, though, which definitely fit. That’s why I decided to have a look at Beating the...
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Expectancy vs. MAR
I had this question come in recently: Strategy A has better risk-adjusted returns (measured by Annual returns/Max Drawdown, aka the MAR ratio), but lower expectancy than strategy B. It manages to...
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Making use of seasonal patterns in forex
As those who have followed my work over the last several years are aware, I have done some research into so-called “seasonal” patterns in the foreign exchange market. This was motivated by observing a...
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As good as a coach on call 24/7
Had an email come in the other day from a book reader named Patrick. He said: “John, I reviewed your book. My honest impression is that it is the most practical book on trading I ever came across. I’ve...
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2015, a new beginning
Happy New Year! Been a while since my last blog post, but I’ve not been completely out of touch. For most of the year I was writing weekly pieces of the Currensee blog, which I’d been doing for a...
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What are your trader performance questions?
For about as long as I’ve been involved in trading, the question of the profitability of traders has been an open one. There have been all kinds of numbers thrown out, like 95% of traders fail. About...
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Tips for someone with no experience
The other day I had a note come in from a young prospective trader: Hi John, I have just ordered your book The Essentials of Trading and I look forward to it. I am an 18 year old from London who has...
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And the brokers go BOOM!
The dust seems to be settling now, but once more we’ve seen how one event can create market mayhem with massive fallout. I am, of course, talking about the Swiss National Bank (SNB) removing the 1.20...
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The death of the flow trader
I was in London recently talking a bit of shop with some guys in the professional market analysis business. The conversation got on to the subject of information sharing the financial markets....
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