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Mark D. Cook’s Trading Strategy Explained
Mark D. Cook was a legendary investor featured in Jack Schwager’s Stock Market Wizards. Originally a farm boy from Ohio, Cook made millions in the market and also won the 1992 U.S. Investment Championship with an astounding 563.8% return. He specialized in technical analysis, options trading, and pattern recognition. The following is a breakdown of…
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Mastering Global Macro Strategy: Unveiling the Key Principles and Tactics for Success
Navigating the world of finance can often feel like traversing a maze, with twists and turns at every corner. Global macro investing is a compass that guides investors through the complexities of macroeconomic trends. Global macro strategy is an investment approach that capitalizes on macroeconomic trends and geopolitical events by trading various financial instruments across…
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A GBP Of Flesh… [Dirty Dozen]
This dead weight of conventional wisdoms encourages the idea that the currencies are complex and sophisticated. But once you strip away all the rationalizations and conventions that have no basis in reality, you discover the truth: which is that the currency markets are simple. And, so far from being highly sophisticated, they are, as I…
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Oil About To Clean Up… [Dirty Dozen]
Remember that big stack poker is a game of patience. You don’t have to make a big play in every marginal situation that comes along, just as a good hitter in baseball doesn’t have to swing at balls outside the strike zone. Wait for good solid situations before making big plays. ~ Dan Harrington In…
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Monroe Trout’s Trading Strategy Explained
Monroe Trout is one of the successful hedge fund managers interviewed in Jack Schwager’s The New Market Wizards. With an average return of 67 percent over five years and a maximum drawdown of just over 8 percent, Trout’s track record surpasses his peers in terms of his return-to-risk ratio. He started his career at Victor…
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A Monthly Market Review… [Dirty Dozen]
The concept that a market’s discounting mechanism is based on speculator participation, not price, is the most important thing that I know. ~ Jason Shapiro, “Unknown Market Wizards” In this week’s Dirty Dozen [CHART PACK] we update the end-of-month technical, sentiment & positioning, and macro outlook for the broader US market (hint: odds still favor…
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The Russian Coup & Democracy’s Shield
I’ve received too many DMs, emails, and texts over the weekend to not talk about the… I don’t even know what to call it… temporary insurrection? Got cold feet attempted coup? “I’m going to overthrow the power structures within Russia, J/K, I’ll see myself out now mkay, bye” Kabuki theater performed by Prioghzin? But before…
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Has The Market Entered An Expansion Regime? [Dirty Dozen]
If I had to reduce all the components of my methods to a single phrase, it would be thinking in essentials. ~ Victor Sperandeo In this week’s Dirty Dozen [CHART PACK], we talk bullish monthly moves, even more bullish volatility compression breakouts, tempered by short-term pullback expectations, then discuss the outperforming Greeks, some big moves…
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Whales Are Dumping Megacaps… [Dirty Dozen]
There is a very important difference between being a theoretical contrarian and dealing with it in practical terms. In order to win as a contrarian, you need the right timing and you have to put on a position in the appropriate size. If you do it too small, it’s not meaningful; if you do it…
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Randy McKay’s Trading Strategy Explained
Randy McKay is a legendary investor who began trading currency futures in 1970 while working as a runner on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange floor. He eventually took over his brother’s seat on the exchange with $2,000 in his account and within seven months, turned that amount into $70,000. He went on to pull hundreds of…