Archive for category: Journal

Fun at the Factory

18 August, 2010 (20:24) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

домейнI’ve been following two threads on Forex Factory for the past week, which is a rather rare occurrence these days. Both are fascinating, but for different reasons.
The first is Jacko’s House of Pleasure and Pain, a thread which I have referenced quite a few times in the past, as I attempted to replicate [...]

Mish mash

29 April, 2010 (09:56) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

I haven’t had anything really pressing to talk about in the last few weeks, so this update is just a mish mash of various thoughts and observations.
I’m still on the price action trading path. All trade entry, exits and market musings are still being recorded. I’m not spending as much time as I [...]

Bar by Bar

16 March, 2010 (14:58) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

Pretty much all my trading time so far this year has been spent reading, digesting and applying price action that I have gleaned from Price Charts Bar by Bar: The Technical Analysis of Price Action for the Serious Trader by Al Brooks.
This has to be the most densely packed trading book that I’ve ever read. [...]

Performance analysis

8 February, 2010 (16:43) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

Over the Christmas holidays I read Enhancing Trader Performance by Brett Steenbarger. This is definitely one of the better trading books I’ve read over the years. One of the key concepts of the book is that reviewing your trading performance is a vital steps in becoming a better trader.
During the years that I [...]

Seppuku

15 January, 2010 (14:19) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

Over the holidays I found out that Richard McCall had been charged and convicted of fraud by the CFTC back in 2006/7.
I had always thought highly of Richard McCall after reading his Way of the Warrior-Trader book and watching his educational videos. He always struck me as more of a teacher or coach than [...]