Archive for month: January, 2007

Seminar review

27 January, 2007 (19:31) | News Trading | By: Colin McGinley

After attending the TradeTime news trading seminar held by Tom Yeomans yesterday I want to record some of my thoughts.
Listening to another trader talk through their approach and execution of an actual trade can be a great learning experience. Tom actually had two economic news releases that he was looking to trade. [...]

News trading seminar

24 January, 2007 (12:11) | Journal, News Trading | By: Colin McGinley

I’ve signed up to attend Tom Yeomans’ news trading seminar that he is hosting this Friday. From the flurry of e-mails that Tom has sent out this month it looks like he has decidedly veered towards trading the aftermath of the news release and not the news release itself. I have already detailed [...]

Trading situation report

19 January, 2007 (17:07) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

It’s been a while since I last updated on my actual trading activity. This post is my remedy for that situation.
The large fall in EUR-USD between the 3rd and 12th of this month had a full head of steam stoked up by the US dollar bulls. Price tumbled from 1.3280 all the way [...]

Do you need brains to trade?

16 January, 2007 (12:02) | Psychology | By: Colin McGinley

I watched ‘X-Men 3: The Last Stand’ last Saturday night with my wife. If you haven’t seen it already you might want to refrain from reading the first four paragraphs as I’m going to talk about one of the major plot points in the movie. Spoiler zone ahead.
I’m going to focus on the [...]

Correlations

12 January, 2007 (11:36) | Relational Analysis, Technical Analysis | By: Colin McGinley

There seems to have been a recent resurgence in the usage and discussions of correlations between forex pairs. Two currently high profile forex trading systems that seem to be primarily based on using correlations are FreedomRocks and ForexForSmarties. Tom Yeomans also seems to be on a correlations trip at the moment, although he [...]