MarketLife Ep 28 – So you want to be a trader? Here’s what you can do next.
This week's podcast picks up where we left off last week, and looks at how to apply the lessons and ideas to your own development as a trader. These two…
MarketLife Ep 27 – So you want to be a trader?
For the beginning trader, here are some thoughts and ideas for the first steps of your journey. For a developing trader, or for the successful trader, here is an invitation…
MarketLife Ep 26 – Taming the bear: managing market declines
Markets have been a bit volatile over the past few weeks, and the future is uncertain. For many investors, these moves can be troubling because it's been many years since…
MarketLife Ep 25 – Spaced Repetition System: Learn perfectly and never forget
Today, a few thoughts on how your memory works and how it is structured. I spend some time talking about a system called Anki in this episode. I know many…
MarketLife Ep 24 – Using memory pegs to remember anything and everything
This episode picks up where we left off last week, and I share a technique for learning remembering anything you want to learn with nearly perfect recall. One thing is…
MarketLife Ep 23 – Becoming a superlearner
Over the course of the next two or three podcasts, I want to share some tools and techniques I've been using to supercharge my learning. In my case, I've focused…
MarketLife Ep 22 – Acts of God: managing market extremes
This podcast episode looks at trading around market extremes, Acts of God, and very large market moves. From market history, some examples might be 9/11, 1987, Fukushima, Katrina, etc. Today,…
MarketLife Ep 21 – Pulling the trigger: where, how, and why?
A look at how to execute trades: where they set up, and how, when, where, and why to pull the trigger--to make the decision to get into or out of…
MarketLife Ep 20 – Market cycles and regimes
A_Joe sent me a question on market cycles: You wrote a post (here) that talked about market cycles. I request that you share some more information on market regimes and…
MarketLife Ep 19 – Short term trading: what works for me
This episode continues my look at short term (intraday and daytrading) systems and ideas. Here are the episode notes: What’s really happening intraday Academic studies of market behavior show departures…
MarketLife Ep 18 – Short term trading
Short term trading, intraday trading, daytrading--call it what you will, these styles of trading bring some unique challenges. Tools and approaches that work in other timeframes also work intraday, but…
MarketLife Ep 17 – The one about coffee
Off topic warning! If you are only interested in finance and trading, this podcast is not for you. :) This episode is 100%, completely about coffee: how different varieties taste,…
Marketlife Ep 16 – Trading around macro events
Every day, we are hit with economic reports, earnings for stocks, speculation, opinion, and a flood of other information. Some of these events move markets; some are non-events. How can…
MarketLife Ep 15 – Dealing with strings of wins and losses
Three more reader questions this week: how do we deal with runs of wins and losses? What about applying technicals to non-linear (or derived time series), and how do we…
MarketLife Ep 14 – Reader questions: risk, randomness, music, and coffee
I answer three reader questions here, and stretch the boundaries of this podcast just a little bit. Igor asks: "We know that the smaller the timeframe(TF), the more random the…
MarketLife Ep 13 – My macro process
Process--it doesn't sound exciting, but it's maybe the most important part of what we do. In fact, it's the Holy Grail in trading: having something you can replicate year after…