Archive for month: January, 2009

Reading material

27 January, 2009 (14:32) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

Here’s a few articles I’ve found interesting recently:
Stock-Surfing the Tsunami – The outraged and vitriolic comments of those who seem to be tilted at windmills are particularly entertaining.
FX Trading Grows 250% as Investors Look For Alternative to Hedge Fund Trading – Somehow I doubt the whole forex retail industry grew by 250% in 2008
Japanese [...]

26 January 2009

26 January, 2009 (17:24) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

I feel that I have learnt enough from my experimenting with the fti approach for it to be worthwhile returning to my scalping approach. I had originally anticipated that it might take me till the end of February to reach this point but after some reflection over the weekend I felt that the last [...]

The edge is me

19 January, 2009 (15:07) | Psychology | By: Colin McGinley

Having a quiet two weeks of trading to start the year might not seem like the greatest thing in the world. On the face it isn’t really. What I am most content about is the mental attitude during that time frame.
I think the core tenant in this slight shift of thought and outlook [...]

Twist

6 January, 2009 (17:08) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

My trading for the year is starting out in a slightly more rag tag fashion than I envisioned before the Xmas holiday break.
I feel that I made decent progress on the modest goals I had set myself for over the holiday period. This mainly involved working on some mental deficiencies and developing a stronger [...]