Category Archives: Trading Resources

Its Friday

Sandy-Cam

As an unabashed fan of extreme weather I bring you Sandy-Cam courtesy of a camera on the 51st floor of the New York Times building.

Punch A Hedge Fund Manager In The Head Day…..

I think a much better idea would be to allow disgruntled clients to pay to punch their hedge fund managers in the head.

Chart Of The Day

Not mine….someone else’s. The chart below dropped into one of my junk email accounts. This is a chart of the S&P500 PE ratio – I can see what people are attempting to do when they construct such charts. My interpretation is that they are looking for signs of mania – that is a distortion in…

Its Friday

Why didn’t I see this before seeing the damned film………….  

October

As we near the end of the magic month….according to some. I thought it might be interesting to see whether October is all its cracked up to be. Apparently it isn’t, below are the average monthly returns generated using as much data as I could get. Data trumps bullshit once again….

S&P 500

One of the markets I trade is the S&P 500 which has been in recovery mode since 2009. However, the action this week seems to have put the wind up a few people – the merest mention of a market going down in October seems to send everyone running for the shelters. Channel breaks are…

Dow

Not quite on the close but apparently I have been told something.