Margin call - the cash trap During the last two week all major indices like S&P 500, Dow Jones, NASDAQ, DAX and others dropped by more than 10% in what is considered one of the worst weeks in trading. This [...]
Sitting on your hands More important than making money is not losing it. If you lose fifty percent of your investment money, you need to make one hundred percent profits, just to break even. This counter intuitive principle works against [...]
Expectations in check If you compare the average performance of all major hedge funds from 1994 to 2018 you will find them underperforming the S&P by more than 2 percent. These funds cut volatility risk compared to the index by [...]
Halving - Facts versus Perception Facts: Miners are getting rewarded for digital transaction verification with bitcoins. These transaction verification's are measured in blocks. After each 210,000 blocks "mined", the reward amount gets to be half than the previously set reward. [...]
Consistently extracting profits In our chartbook publication from last week we published a chart with entry levels as a guide on when to enter the market. Briefly after publication, the first low risk price level was approached. Consequently we posted [...]
The trend is your friend That might be an overused term but it is so very true! After "compound interest" (Albert Einstein: "Compound interest is the 8th wonder of the world"), a directional market is the strongest free edge one [...]
Turning point entry timing A turning point in most cases isn't evolving from a down to up price movement. There is a sideways period, an entry zone rather than a specific price. Prices meander around for a period of time. [...]
Passive income flow, the ultimate joy It is clear that the holy grail of making money is passive income flow. Making money while you sleep should be the goal of any business venture. The quality of that sleep is determined [...]
Pre holiday opportunity timing We pointed out risk, reward and psychological abnormalities of pre holiday trading in our previous chartbook. One always should reduce size for this sort of trading. Taking part if opportunity presents itself in pre holiday trading [...]
Building positions, arriving at target loaded December markets are tricky. With the closing of the year come rollovers in futures markets, tax considerations, hedge fund portfolio allocations due to accountability and much more. Markets are a reflection of human behavior [...]
