Archive for month: July, 2007

Eggs

27 July, 2007 (14:08) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

There was a certain element of serendipity in play for me yesterday evening.
After having just written about value investing in my last post, it was perhaps unsurprising that the guest writer in yesterday’s Daily Reckoning newsletter wrote about Philip Fisher, one of the originators of value investing.
While the article was more to do with [...]

Heads I win

26 July, 2007 (17:12) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

One other input into my recent evaluation of my trading goals and appetite for risk comes from having read The Dhandho Investor by Mohnish Pabrai earlier this month.
I normally don’t buy trading or investment books that involve stock trading as that’s not something that I actively do. In this case the book was loaned [...]

Risk on my mind

24 July, 2007 (17:00) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

After reading the full Jacko’s Forex House of Pleasure and Pain thread on Forex Factory over the weekend I have some serious pondering to do.
Before I divulge what is preying on my mind, let’s take a quick review of Jacko’s trading method:
He trades the long-term trend in only one currency, which is currently EUR-USD. [...]

Pleasure and pain

21 July, 2007 (10:53) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

Ben Bernanke’s two days of talking this week didn’t have much impact on the currency markets. Wednesday’s US CPI and housing numbers were ho-hum while Thursday’s US Leading Indicators saw a drop into negative territory to -0.3%, blamed on the housing slump. No surprises there.
EUR-USD price continued to hover all week around the [...]

Testing the waters

20 July, 2007 (13:16) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

I’ve long thought about whether I should offer a forex training course. I get asked a lot questions by the savvy and smart readers of this blog. I enjoy answering these queries and hope that my replies help that person move towards success on their forex trading journey. Helping other people achieve [...]