How and why we were short GGAL, a major Argentinian bank
I have a confession to make: I’m trying to learn to do better marketing. I’m not the kind of person to brag about success—one of the reasons for that is…
Reader question: How do I measure liquidity?
A reader, Mohammad asks: I see you mentioning liquidity or a market being too thin to trade. I’m not sure what this means or how to measure liquidity. Please help.…
Trade management lessons from a nasty reversal
I want to share a trade with you that I recent published in my Talon research report. There are a few lessons here: first, the enduring lesson of trading pullbacks…
Chartschool: FOMO and breakouts in the USDCHF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd4Xgq7IFiU
The dirty dozen: my beliefs about the market and trading
I thought it might be interesting to put together a list that summarizes my experiences, successes, failures, and the beliefs that grew out of that work. It's not a simple…
Trading for a living: real talk
Trading for a living—this is why many of us come into the market in the first place. It's the fuel that drives a lot of marketing, good and bad, and…
Do you have a pre-trade checklist?
Consistency in trading results requires consistency of process. If you are doing something different every time you trade, it’s hard to evaluate your results. A simple pre-trade checklist can help…
Trading is Hard
Trading is ugly. Many of us, when we first get into the business, have the idea that the market will eventually be an ATM machine—you can sit down at the…
Shifting price dynamics in the AUDUSD: what shadows can tell us
Sometimes, reading market action is about putting the pieces together... building a big picture from the composite of small bits of information that might not seem terribly meaningful by themselves.…
Do interest rates scare you?
Interest rates are constantly in the headlines. When I talk to traders and investors, interest rates are one of the topics that always come up. There's a great deal of…