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Why nobody should be impressed with the recent stock market improvement
I’ve been hearing a lot of talk lately of how the stock market has improved. As some of you may know there is an inverse correlation between the stock market and the value of the dollar. Which makes perfect sense if you think about it. The government prints dollars so that the dollar falls in value. More money in the system means that the prices are artificially inflated. Commodities, gold, oil, etc. they will all rise on the decreased value of the dollar because of this correlation. If you go to...
read moreThe still downward spiraling housing market
Contradictory to what some suggest the housing market is still being brutalized where I’m from. I’ve uploaded a chart from Zillow so that you can see the Arizona market specifically. If you look at this chart light blue represents AZ and dark blue represents the United States. It appears as if the US has hit a bottom or slightly starting to curve flat. I’m not here to discuss whether or not this is the bottom however. It appears to form a bottom but I’m not speculating. The reason for this blog entry is to...
read moreDrug cartel violence and the solution to the problem
Let me start by just saying we will never stop Americans’ demand for drugs, whether it’s marijuana, meth, crack, or whatever it is. The demand will always be there. Just like alchol, you could never outlaw alchol in the US again. If you did you could guarantee to boost the drug cartels cash flow. So with this being the case how do we stop all of this money flowing to deadly cartels on our southern border? The answer is so simple and right in front of our face. Legalize marijuana and make it illegal to import. Funny...
read moreNot being prudent cost me over 700 pips
So today the EURO and the AUSSIE took off after the FOMC reports release. Had my strategies been updated I would have made 700 pips today alone. Instead I made absolutely nothing. So here is a recap of what happenend. As you all know I use the COT reports for my bias. Meaning depending on what the COT report says I will only trade a currency pair short or long. Well I subscribe to the COT report so I get an email notification every Friday as soon as they are released. This way I can update my strategies bias’ based upon what...
read moreWhat happens if you don’t program your strategies correctly?
The other day I ate breakfast and jumped on my PC around 8AM. As most everyone knows everything I trade is completely automated. I do not manually place trades. So I figured I would check on my strategy to see how much money I had made/lost that night while sleeping. Much to my surprise I noticed I had open probably close to 50 USD/CHF positions. I was caught totally off guard. My account was bouncing around, with every tick in the market I would be up 5% down 5% consistently bouncing around. We’re talking 5% of my total...
read moreGoogle Latitude knows where you are…and no it doesn’t use GPS
So this is my first personal blog post. I also have a blog that is technical based, here. I’m honestly not sure how much I will update this blog as my technical one covers 99% of the things I find interesting. Ok, now onto my post. Perhaps some of you have heard of a Google program called Latitude. It is an application you can install on your Blackberry, Windows mobile phone, or laptop. This tool is simply amazing at locating you. It uses GPS(obviously), cell towers through triangulation, and Wifi through triangulation. The...
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