Chris Perruna made me one of his Weekend Must Read Links 3-21-08, and I got a lot of hits off of it. Thanks! There’s a few other good articles on that list, so it’s worth visiting in its own right …
Brett Steenbarger with Control Your Brain by Controlling Your Risk. I suggest that one way to minimize the emotional impact of, and perception of, altered risk levels is to trade a mechanical system.
Richard at Move The Markets is working on some functions and indicators, when he’s not exploring the mysteries of the Tarot. If you’re into day- and short-term trading, follow the first link; if you’re into the Tarot, follow the second.
David Merkel’s friends, who “don’t follow the economy or the markets that closely,” were asking him if they should be worried about the economy. I say this is just the “flip side” of the shoe-shine boy giving you stock tips, but curiously, David answers it with not a hint of contrarianism.
Derail any thoughts you may have had about going long FreightCar America, Inc. (RAIL) according to the 10Q Detective. Good, well-structured fundamental stock analysis that doesn’t get enough attention.
AI Quant suggests Visualizing Price Data as a Complex Phasor. Perhaps I’m odd, but I find this type of information far more intriguing and potentially useful than trying to make inferences about “inflation” or “consumer spending” from some blogger’s wife’s trip to the grocery or mall.
Speaking about the stupid practice of drawing macro inferences from one trip to the store, Mark Thornton does a perfect reductio ad absurdum with the deflationary crash in “corn skewer” prices. Priceless.
Tim Plaehn contemplates the unthinkable! What if the Mortgage Resets are at LOWER Rates?
IIO is having a rough year so far. I’m rooting for him, and I’m confident he’ll recover in the long run, because his system is well-founded on known market anomalies.
