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Post by Entendance on Aug 31, 2015 3:38:56 GMT -5
"If everything in life either provides you with blessings or lessons, you will always profit, even when you lose money. Viewing life through the lens of blessings and lessons means that you approach the world with a sense of gratitude. There are a number of emotional and health benefits associated with gratitude, but perhaps the greatest benefit is that it promotes resilience. It is through adversity that we stretch our boundaries and discover hidden reserves and talents. As long as we take risks prudently, whether in romance or in markets, losses can become gifts once we seek and uncover their educational value. Perhaps we don't suffer because of losses; perhaps suffering results from an absence of gratitude. It's the lessons that ultimately bring the blessings." -Brett Steenbarger, Ph.D.
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Post by Entendance on Sept 2, 2015 4:12:21 GMT -5
“Every day I assume every position I have is wrong.” -Paul Tudor Jones
Πάντα χωρεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει καὶ δὶς ἐς τὸν αὐτὸν ποταμὸν οὐκ ἂν ἐμβαίης. -Ἡράκλειτος ὁ Ἐφέσιος Everything changes and nothing remains still; you can’t step twice into the same stream. -Heraclitus of Ephesus Tutto cambia e nulla rimane; Non si può fare un passo due volte nello stesso corso d'acqua. -Eraclito Alles ändert sich und nichts bleibt still;man kann nicht zweimal in denselben Fluss steigen.-Heraklit von Ephesus
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Post by Entendance on Sept 13, 2015 2:32:12 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Sept 14, 2015 5:26:41 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Sept 16, 2015 2:28:04 GMT -5
"The Fed has given bulls everything they want with low-zero interest rates. This has permitted massive stock buybacks and M&A given cheap financing to do so. But the stock market is not the economy. For a rally to continue from here it won’t be supported by fundamental economic data or even good earnings for that matter. Tuesday given the worse than weak economic data (Retail Sales, Empire State Mfg Survey, Industrial Production & Business Inventories) the “bad news is good” pimps rushed to seize the tape believing the Fed won’t be raising interest rates any time soon—perhaps not in my lifetime. Technical analysis I provided subscribers with Sunday indicated via our proprietary weekly HILO readings, a rally could happen this week—and so it’s begun. Is this time different historically? It could be since I’m not aware of any historical period where there’s been 7 consecutive years of nearly uninterrupted returns. Even the dotcom period lasted just 6 years by my reckoning. And of course we’ve not seen this type of central bank manipulation ever..." -DAVE'S DAILY
World markets at a glance NOW Updated Strategy &Trading VIDEOS Le funiculaire de Capri est une ligne de funiculaire de l'île de Capri reliant la station piazza Umberto I à la station Marina Grande sans arrêt intermédiaire. Il a été construit en 1907 afin de relier et d'améliorer l'accès au centre ville depuis le port. Le service connait alors un grand succès.
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Post by Entendance on Sept 22, 2015 3:53:09 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Sept 25, 2015 7:49:31 GMT -5
"There is NO such thing as passive investing. There are only varying degrees of active investing." More here
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Post by Entendance on Sept 26, 2015 3:25:02 GMT -5
How do I know which way to go? Sometimes we're faced with several options, and we don't know which way to go. In Psalm 25, David asked God for guidance. Perhaps he remembered when, as a shepherd boy, he had to show the right path to his sheep who were wandering away. Just as he knew which path would lead to safety for his sheep, God knew the path that would lead to everlasting life. Just as those sheep that looked to him for direction were in the least danger, so David knew he needed to look to God for direction. Today, God still leads us by his truth — his written Word and his Spirit, which helps us to understand it. Let's pray as David did and read what God has already said in his written Word. He will show us the right road to follow.
Show me the path where I should walk, O Lord; point out the right road for me to follow. Lead me by your truth and teach me, for you are the God who saves me. All day long I put my hope in you. Psalm 25:4-5
"Pay attention and grow wise, for I am giving you good guidance. Don't turn away from my teaching." Proverbs 4:1-2
"I will teach you wisdom's ways and lead you in straight paths. If you live a life guided by wisdom, you won't limp or stumble as you run." Proverbs 4:11-12
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Post by Entendance on Sept 27, 2015 6:19:44 GMT -5
The world economy as we know it is about to be turned on its head More here
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Post by Entendance on Oct 5, 2015 5:57:18 GMT -5
UMBRA TRANSIT, LUX MANET. (The Shadow Passes, The Light Remains)
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Post by Entendance on Oct 8, 2015 4:33:08 GMT -5
"You rescue those who are humble, but you humiliate the proud." -Psalm 18:27
EU? €? There will be blood.
Meanwhile...dr.Bergoglio aka JU BE LEE ( read here why) should get his own house in order before lecturing ...more here
Exposing jesuit hypocrisy More here
"I said Syrians only!!"
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Post by Entendance on Oct 9, 2015 4:17:18 GMT -5
Volatility is often the catalyst for poor decisions at inopportune times. Amidst difficult financial times, emotional instincts often drive investors to take actions that make no rational sense but make perfect emotional sense. Psychological factors such as fear often translate into poor timing of buys and sells. Discipline is paramount. To a member who sends me private messages requesting my counsel: Rule #1 Be data centric in your approach. Take the time and make the effort to understand what works and what doesn’t. Trading decisions should be objective and based upon the data. Rule #2 Be disciplined. The data should guide you in your decisions. This is the only way to navigate a potentially hostile and fearful environment. Rule #3 Be flexible. At first glance this would seem to contradict Rule #2; however, I recognize that markets change and that trading strategies cannot account for every conceivable factor. Giving yourself some wiggle room or discretion is ok, but I would not stray too far from the data or your strategies. Rule #4 Always question the prevailing dogma. The markets love dogma. “Prices are above the 50 day moving average”, “prices are breaking out”, and “don’t fight the Fed” are some of the most often heard sayings. But what do they really mean for prices? Make your own observations and define your own rules. See Rule #1. Rule #5 Understand your market edge. Rule #6 Money management. Money management. Money management. It is so important that it is worth saying three times. There are so few factors you can control in the markets, but this is one of them. Learn to exploit it. Rule #7 Time frame. Know the time frame you are operating on. Don’t let a trade turn into an investment and don’t trade yourself out of an investment. Rule #8 Confidence and conviction. Believe in your strategies and bet wisely but with conviction. There is nothing more frustrating than having a good strategy work as you expect, yet at the end of the day, you have very little winnings to show for your efforts. Rule #9 Persistence. It takes persistence to operate in the markets. Success doesn’t come easy, and if it does, then I would be careful. Even the best strategies come with losses, and they always seem to come when you get the nerve to make the big bet. Stay with your plan. If you have done your home work, the winning trades will follow. Rule #10 Passion. In the end, trading has to be about your bottom line, but you have to love what you do and no amount of money is worth it if you aren’t passionate about the process. No matter how much success you enjoy, in the markets you can never stop learning. Rule #11 Take care of yourself No amount of money is worth it if your health is failing or you have managed to alienate yourself from family and friends in the process.
Foro Romano
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Post by Entendance on Oct 13, 2015 2:31:15 GMT -5
ValueWalk Exactly what NOT to do in Investing
World markets at a glance NOW Updated Strategy &Trading VIDEOS
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Post by Entendance on Oct 16, 2015 6:04:14 GMT -5
Considerate la vostra semenza: fatti non foste a viver come bruti, ma per seguir virtute e conoscenza. - Dante Inferno Canto XXVI: Ulysses (Consider well the seed that gave you birth: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.)
"It's not what you are, but what you don't become that hurts." – Oscar Levant
Qui habet aures audiendi, audiat. Chi vuole intendere, intenda. Wer Ohren hat zum Hören, der hore. He who has ears, let him understand how to listen.
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Post by Entendance on Oct 18, 2015 5:23:37 GMT -5
"...When traders encounter problems and shift into the cognitive mode of investors, they lose touch with their implicit, pattern-recognition skills. It's not simply that they overthink. They shift to the wrong information processing mode. In a literal, cognitive sense, they are out of their right minds... ...The worse you perform, the quieter you want to become. If you're a trader, not an investor, never let your thinking interfere with your information processing..." more here
"...In short, traders lose, not because they're bad at the game, but because they are playing the wrong game." more here
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More on Mental & Spiritual Preparation More on Top Mistakes
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Post by Entendance on Oct 22, 2015 2:30:17 GMT -5
"If you think the ultimate goal of trading is to be right about a stock 100 percent of the time, think again. There's no indicator that can do that and no system that's flawless. The only sure thing in trading is that you’ll be wrong at some point." -Elliott H. Gue
The ultimate stop-loss order is zero. More here
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Post by Entendance on Oct 23, 2015 1:36:36 GMT -5
"...We live in the age of the victim, where none are to blame but others, where every injustice and misfortune is the fault of some shadowy conspiracy of patriarchs and privileges, where ones rights must be adjudicated or legislated into correction by governments and bureaucracies — staffed, ironically by privileged patriarchs. Bad news, it’s not going to happen. The world will always have its poor, its downtrodden, its pariahs and outcasts, but let’s be serious, you aren’t one of them. In fact most of those reading this today live better than the aristocracy of the last century so start enjoying the privileges and perks of your own time and realize just how lucky you are. Accept equally the social responsibility that goes with such fortune, apologize sincerely if you wrong someone, but try not to do whatever you did in the first place ever again. Watch your tone, be kind for no reason, help someone who needs help, share your new skills you’ve learned doing it yourself with your brand new healthy body you’ve been feeding and exercising and you’ll feel what real empowerment is all about. And if you do it the way your inner voice is telling you to, you’ll make the world just a little bit better today..."
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Post by Entendance on Oct 24, 2015 3:51:05 GMT -5
"Some basic rules of history; ***The majority always provides consent to the minority. The minority always determines the direction the majority follows (agenda) The majority always pays the price The majority owns the outcome, good or bad. By providing consent, the majority are always responsible for their own fate." -Warren Pollock
Dum vitant stulti vitia, in contraria currunt. -Quintus Horatius Flaccus Satires, Book 1,Poem 2, 24 When fools try to avoid errors, they run into the opposite errors. En voulant éviter un défaut, les sots se jettent dans le défaut contraire. Wenn die Toren die Fehler vermeiden wollen, verfallen sie ins Gegenteil. Gli stolti, per evitare gli errori, cadono proprio nell'errore contrario.
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Post by Entendance on Oct 26, 2015 16:14:52 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Nov 1, 2015 6:00:48 GMT -5
"I consider my worst enemies and my worst sufferings to be my greatest Teachers." -Steven Seagal
I met mr.Hamilton many times over the 80's while I was also a jazz concert promoter. A stylish and classy man, a great musician.
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Post by Entendance on Nov 9, 2015 4:20:18 GMT -5
"Oh, the joys of those who do not follow the advice of the wicked, or stand around with sinners, or join in with scoffers." -Psalm 1:1
Blessings have to do with both giving and receiving. It was a vital part of life in Bible times. To bless someone meant many things…to praise them, pray for them, and commit them to God's care. It also meant to dedicate and challenge them to live forever committed to God, to keep hold of sp iritual things. It was a call for abundance and prosperity for another. And it was also a way of officially passing on the family inheritance to the oldest son. Wishes for a rich and abundant life were inherent in a blessing, although not always in a material sense. God was recognized as the ultimate source of the blessing. The person blessed would walk with the Lord and receive his benefits. To receive God's blessing meant not only to enjoy innumerable tangible gifts but in a much deeper way to be welcomed into a special relationship with him, a relationship to be affirmed and practiced. Part of this, in turn, means being a blessing to others, a way of saying we have been a godly help for others.
Men and Women for Others, the struggle never ends: here
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Post by Entendance on Dec 17, 2015 6:32:20 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Dec 28, 2015 4:07:25 GMT -5
"Returns in financial markets ultimately derive from several overarching factors, such as momentum (persistence of directional movement); value (tendency of price to oscillate above and below one or more value criteria); volatility (absolute price movement); and carry (returns derived from holding the asset, as in the case of dividends or roll-down). What makes asset managers different from traders is that asset managers are attempting to garner returns from all factors. They are not necessarily attempting to predict which factor will provide the best returns over the next time period. Rather, they will construct a portfolio that will achieve favorable returns across a variety of possible factor-based scenarios. Central to asset management is the idea of portfolio rebalancing. If you don't rebalance a portfolio, you will be top heavy with respect to whatever factor has most recently performed well and underweight factors that have not recently performed. This leaves a manager vulnerable when patterns of dominance among factors shift.
The trader tends to focus on one factor and one factor only. Perhaps the trader is a trend/momentum trader; perhaps the trader relies on patterns of mean reversion; or builds a dividend portfolio. Invariably--and this is especially true of short-term traders--the trader attempts to reduce returns to a preferred factor. In that sense, the trader is a bit like the blind men trying to describe an elephant. One focuses on the tail, another on the leg, yet another on the trunk. No one truly captures the look of the elephant. When a trader declares that he or she is, say, a momentum (momo) trader, the odds are good they'll make money when momentum is a dominant factor and lose money when value and other factors dominate. It will have nothing to do with psychology, though the losses may bring all sorts of psychological consequences as well as monetary ones. The trader will lose for the same reason that the blind man will get the elephant wrong: simplicity has veered into oversimplication. Once a trader declares that he or she is an X trader, where X is a stand-in for a factor exposure, the die is cast. There will be winning and losing and uneven performance. Just as the trading is going well and risk-taking increases, factor dominance will shift and losses will mount. When trading is going poorly and the trader finally takes a new approach, the old style will return to favor. All of these generate frustrations and losses. The core problem, however, is the need to fit markets into a style of trading rather than finding ways to trade that fit with market behavior.
No amount of discipline, mindfulness, positive self-talk, emotional control methods, or goal-setting will make a bit of difference if you're taking one feel of an elephant and trying to figure out the Whole. During 2015, the greatest change in my own trading has been the adoption of a cycle-based framework for thinking about markets. In some phases of market cycles, momentum/trend dominate. In some phases, we see mean-reversion/value. Some phases of cycles display higher volatility and correlation; other phases exhibit lower volatility and correlation. Knowing where we're at in a cycle determines whether the trading will trade price movement or fade it; whether regimes are continuing or shifting. Cycles don't give us an infallible picture, but they do allow us to move around and feel around before we guess what the elephant looks like. We experience emotional disruption when we try to force markets into a rigid framework. A flexible framework allows us to not get bent out of shape, as we adapt to market cycles rather than expect markets to conform to our trading preferences." -Brett Steenbarger, Ph.D.
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Post by Entendance on Dec 29, 2015 18:34:56 GMT -5
Where do we stand now, economically? Well, we are right back at it: trying to stimulate growth through easy money. It hasn’t worked, but it’s the only tool the Fed’s got. Meanwhile, the Fed’s policies widen the wealth gap, which feeds political extremism, forcing gridlock in Washington. It seems the world is headed toward negative real interest rates on a global scale. This is toxic. Interest rates are used to price risk, and so in the current environment, the risk-pricing mechanism is broken. That is not healthy for an economy. We are building up terrific stresses in the system, and any fault lines there will certainly harm the outlook.
What makes you most nervous about the future? Debt. The idea that growth will remedy our debts is so addictive for politicians, but the citizens end up paying the price. The public sector has really stepped up as a consumer of debt. The Federal Reserve’s balance sheet is leveraged 77:1. Like I said, the absurdity, it just befuddles me. -Michael Burry
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Post by Entendance on Jan 11, 2016 3:45:54 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Jan 15, 2016 6:35:28 GMT -5
20 Terrible Ways to Trade Good trading is very basic; it’s trading with an edge to capture a trend in your own time frame, while managing your risk exposure carefully with the right position sizing and stop loss. There are endless ways to trade badly. You can change these if you make an effort and become self-aware. Be on the lookout for these pitfalls. Here are the top 20
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Post by Entendance on Jan 19, 2016 17:47:46 GMT -5
"As it was in the days of Noah...They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all." -Luke 17
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"...Building and operating a business is not easy. I believe it gets harder, not easier, as the years pile up. That is where tenacity and believing in yourself and your team and your business is required. The leaders who exhibit that have a special place in my heart and my head..." More here WHEN MEN WERE MEN
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Post by Entendance on Jan 22, 2016 6:14:59 GMT -5
Help, O Lord, for the godly are fast disappearing! The faithful have vanished from the earth! Neighbors lie to each other, speaking with flattering lips and insincere hearts. May the Lord bring their flattery to an end and silence their proud tongues… Lord, we know you will protect the oppressed, preserving them forever from this lying generation, even though the wicked strut about, and even is praised throughout the land. Psalm 12:1-3, 7-8
Why is it that those who get ahead always seem to be the ones who lie, cheat, and steal? They not only get away with their evil deeds, but their actions are admired and paraded around the world. Daydreaming about wicked people getting their just desserts may bring a smile to your face, but thinking about revenge isn't healthy for your soul. Instead, we should commit the wicked and the evil they do to God in prayer. We can't stop others from speaking lies or taking advantage of us, but we can and should cry out to the Lord who watches over his people. God knows the truth about all people, and he hears and responds to the cry of his people. This truth can give us peace amidst all the evil of those around us.
Dear Lord, thank you for watching over me as those around me plot evil.
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Post by Entendance on Jan 23, 2016 8:47:47 GMT -5
If you trade with size that does not interfere with your emotions then you can not only survive but see the forest through the trees
What is this? I told you I no longer accept euros!
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Post by Entendance on Feb 5, 2016 17:22:15 GMT -5
Ubi maior, minor cessat [The weak (minor) capitulates before the strong (major)]
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EU? €? There will be blood.
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