Bitcoin: The Wild West of Trading A short-term Bitcoin trader who goes by the alias ‘BTCVIX’ in featured in this episode. . This isn’t a usual topic discussed on this podcast, but all traders will find some good takeaways from…
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Trading Places, a movie about a commodities trader and a homeless man switching places, was one of the first VHS tapes that I personally owned (says a lot about me I’m sure) and had a major impact on my formative…
Cut Out the Noise! While trading indicators can be useful, they are by no means a Holy Grail. In fact, traders will often rely on indicators too much. “Indicator overload” can lead to poor results, lack of decision making and…
“Ever wonder why fund managers can’t beat the S&P 500? ’Cause they’re sheep, and sheep get slaughtered.” –Gordon Gekko The “herd-mentality” has been studied throughout human history and is an all-too-common phenomena in modern financial markets. The majority of retail…
Creating Quant Strategies and Scrutinizing the Market With Ernie Chan Dr. Ernie Chan is a trader from Toronto, Canada. This week I had the great pleasure of speaking with Dr Ernest Chan, from Toronto (Canada). He’s well known to quantitative…
Gold has been under pressure for some time now. As the first interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve is upon us; the gold market may potentially carve out another low before finding more solid footing. The notion of the…
The daily deluge in earnings season can be overwhelming and truthfully there are only a few data points that are important and worthy of your time… The Heartbeat of Earnings and Revenue Data Each quarter the earnings and revenue data…
Like New York is the global focus for the stock market, Chicago is the center of the commodities world. Legends and lore need to be passed on as the new generation of electronic traders so they do not lose sight…
