Archive for category: Books


Currency Secrets review of BWILC

9 May, 2007 (11:20) | Books | By: Colin McGinley

Ryan Sheehy at Currency Secrets has posted a review of Bird Watching In Lion Country.
He highlights the positives and negatives that he got out of reading the book, which fall broadly in line with his more technical orientated trading background. The ambiguity that Ryan describes is totally understandable when first coming to grips [...]

Feeling lucky?

6 May, 2007 (09:05) | Books, Journal, Trading Plan | By: Colin McGinley

My foretelling of the US non-farm payroll unfolded broadly in line with what I thought might happen. Was my correct prediction just pure luck or a sign of some masterful trading skill?
Before I tackle that question I’d like to quickly recap how I handled the events of Friday’s NFP release.
Price didn’t make it into [...]

Review of Bird Watching In Lion Country

1 January, 2007 (18:30) | Books | By: Colin McGinley

There are plenty of reviews of ‘Bird Watching in Lion Country’ by Dirk du Toit already out there on the net. Most of the reviewers seem to have liked the book, but that’s almost always the way with online reviews isn’t it? If you’re indifferent or negative about something why would you want [...]

Short and sharp

22 October, 2006 (14:37) | Books, News Trading, Psychology | By: Colin McGinley

One of the main reasons that I looked into news trading (apart from to see if it would complement my regular more long term trading approach) is a comment made by Richard McCall in his book ‘The Way of the Warrior-Trader’. Throughout the book McCall applies the wisdom of the ancient samurai way of [...]

Forex fundamentals

21 September, 2006 (22:16) | Books, Journal, News Trading | By: Colin McGinley

Last weekend I purchased Tom Yeomans new ebook entitled ‘Fundamental Forex Boot Camp Papers’. It can be purchased from his website at http://fundamentalforex.com/. My initial feeling, after having read his blog and the first few chapters of the book, is that his approach to trading news releases compliments very nicely with the 4×1 [...]