Archive for Boris Schlossberg

Tweet on This!

The other day Hedgefund girl sent me an article by some guy named Peter Brandt who supposedly has been trading for 20 million years that was ominously titled “Warning: Tweeting can be harmful to a trader’s financial health.” In his little missive Mr. Brandt states that, “Getting drawn into the emotions of minute to minute, [...]

Piping Ain’t Money

One of the most popular videos I’ve ever recorded for Youtube is called how to Scalp for 10 pips a day. My friend Rob Booker has an e-book on Amazon called Strategy 10 which is one of the all time best selling FX titles ever published that addresses some of the same issues. Both [...]

Better Trading Through Feedback

The other day a Wired magazine article caught my eye. It discussed a common problem facing many American municipalities. “In 2003, officials in Garden Grove, California, a community of 170,000 people wedged amid the suburban sprawl of Orange County, set out to confront a problem that afflicts most every town in America: drivers speeding through [...]

You Feeling Me?

One of my guilty pleasures this summer is to watch Royal Pains - a TV show set in the Hamptons about a “concierge” doctor to the rich that is really more about the beauty of the place than the drama of medicine. The show is basically a lighthearted play on social manners that always features [...]

Take Your Lumps

One of the maddening things about trading is that it resists any and all attempts to turn it into a regular business activity. For most of us our greatest desire as traders is to achieve steady, positive returns that compound on a daily basis. But trading is not and will never be a job [...]

Know Your Flow

Those of you who follow me on twitter every day know that I am big proponent of trading flow - that is trading in the direction of the immediate trend which has proven to be profitable strategy in the FX market, especially over the past several months. Indeed, it is only when I stubbornly fade [...]

Distraction Destruction

This week Kathy and I wanted to trade the MPC meeting notes in our private BK signal service. Normally we do not trade central bank meetings because they can be notoriously difficult to predict. However, this time we were pretty confident that the tone of the MPC minutes would be dovish especially since uber hawk [...]

Trade Like a Professional Gambler

One of the greatest comedic bits ever written is a discourse by George Carlin in which he takes on the hypocrisy of the English language, especially as it relates to war. Carlin notes that in World War I the words for the stress of combat were “Shell Shock”. In WWII the term was changed to [...]

Touch Trading

Old time chartists used to lament the onset of computer generated graphs noting that there was just no substitute for manually marking every price movement on a piece of paper. Although modern day traders dismissed those observations as grumbles from the dinosaur age, now comes a New York Times article that substantiates much of [...]

Game, Set, Match

RT @LeadToday The best leaders don’t focus on what has happened, they focus on what’s going to happen.

When I was flying back from Dubai last week I had chance to watch one of the greatest tennis matches ever played. The in-plane entertainment system had the McEnroe v. Borg Wimbledon final from 1981 and I was [...]