Monday 6 October 2014

Gold contrarian indicator

With Gold approaching multi year lows, these sort of headlines are normally seen around swing bottoms. 

Thursday 8 May 2014

Ray Dalio "wisdom"

Some quotes from Ray Dalio of Bridgewater Associates


Nice video courtesy of trading wisdoms.

Tuesday 6 May 2014

4 years on - May 6th

Anyone else remember what they were doing around this time 4 years ago.


A reminder that things can change pretty quick.

Wednesday 30 April 2014

NY Fed POMO

So the FED today tapered by another 10 million.  Below is the May POMO schedule.

 

Friday 17 January 2014

Ray Dalio - Economic Machine

This video offers brilliant insight into Ray Dalio's interpretation of how the economy works, and more importantly, where we are in the current cycle.


Highly recommended for a fundamental view of where we are.  A beautiful deleveraging??

Thursday 16 January 2014

George Soros latest - Reflexivity

Some new insight from George Soros on reflexivity, fallibility and uncertainty.

He says ...................

"Of course I did not discover reflexivity. Earlier observers recognized it, or at least aspects of it, often under a different name. Knight  explored the difference between risk and uncertainty. Keynes compared financial markets to a beauty contest where the participants had to guess who would be the most popular choice. The sociologist Merton about self-fulfilling prophecies, unintended consequences, and the bandwagon effect. Popper spoke of the ‘Oedipus effect’ in the Poverty of Historicism.

A fascinating read.  For the full article please see this link.

Wednesday 15 January 2014

2013 Trade Review

2013 was another successful year for the eminiglobex trading system. Here is a screenshot of the equity curve from collective2.com.  



Due to unusual market action, the system has been trading very tight, with 12 trades. Details of the trades can be seen below. 



The system returned $1,227 in profit (trading 1 contract) after commission and slippage and did not have a losing trade. 

The system is currently trading over 200 live contracts per trade. 

The system is currently at equity highs and is on a run of 36 consecutive winning trades.