We all spend our time with The Angel and The Devil on our shoulders, vacillating between what we should do and what we want to do.  Those little imps travel with us everywhere we go. They invade the inner sanctum of our minds at every decision we face in the day.  “I really should fix [...]

I have a list of all different kinds of profound ideas for sharing with my lovely subscribers and yet, this morning … I found myself just kind of goofing off.  A friend of mine sent me a link to Allie Brosh’s blog called Hyperbole and a Half telling me how funny she is.  I could [...]

I saw this video on Seth Godin’s Blog called “What Teachers Make.”  The speaker, Taylor Mali, author of the book What Learning Leaves recites his anecdotal poem about the true gifts that a teacher leaves in their wake.  Among other things he says he makes kids “…wonder, question, and criticize.”  It made me think to [...]

I know what I need in order to trade well for the week.  For my trading style I need: 1)   the market to have some kind of bandwagon it is willing to jump onto;             that could be in the form of a singular outlook for the upcoming economic news releases             that could also [...]

Monday, during the Watchlist Webinar for my blog subscribers, the webinar software lost audio and I had to interrupt the class to try varying solutions – all of which felt like a lot of wasted and lost time. Tuesday, for seemingly no reason at all, my computer kept dumping my internet connection and kept me [...]

A lot of people ask me how I feel about automated trading programs.  These are the little bots in your system that look for a certain set of conditions and then execute a trade based on those parameters.  It sounds good in theory, right?  A program isn’t going to get fearful of initiating a trade [...]