Archive for month: May, 2009

Whithering shoots

15 May, 2009 (16:06) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

I know that I’m only perpetuating the problem, but I don’t think I’ve yet to see a metaphor as overused as ‘green shoots’ in recent times. It even seems as if the news articles that track how often the phrase ‘green shoots’ is being used are multiplying like weeds in a garden. [...]

Freedom Rocking?

15 May, 2009 (13:33) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

One of my more widely read posts way back in early 2007 dealt with correlations amongst forex pairs. This spark of interest was generally tied to the rise of FreedomRocks, a money-making bonanza that was as much forex trading as it was multi-level marketing.
I guess I must still be in their e-mail database somewhere [...]

Trading truths

11 May, 2009 (15:56) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

About six weeks ago I jotted down a few notes that I’m going to now list here. At the time I was mentally comparing and contrasting the long and short term methods of trading that I’ve been experimenting with.
At the time I deemed these notes to be my trading truths:

I suck at timing [...]