traderfeed.blogspot.com - 2/23/2009
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A frustrated reader asks: How do you handle getting scared out of a position only to be wrong and as the days and weeks go on you keep counting how much money you could have made had you not panicked? I guess the question is how do you let go of a mistake? I had a bearish put spread on the ...
Mistakes Beget Greater Mistakes
hf-implode.com 3/23/2009 — And while on the topic of mortgage finance, the Fed’s prodding has borrowing costs back below 5%. This cost of finance also grossly under-prices Credit and other risks.
I would argue that market pricing for government and mortgage finance remains highly distorted – a pricing system maligned ...
Profiting off the Liquidity Preference
crossingwallstreet.com 12/1/2008 — One aspect of this market that I find fascinating is the dramatic yield spreads between short-term Treasury yields ( ^IRX ) and just about everything else. Short-term Treasuries have one major benefit over all other securities and that is their ...
Six Financial Mistakes You'll Soon Regret
freemoneyfinance.com 10/4/2008 — Dumb Little Man lists six financial mistakes you'll soon regret as follows:
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7 mistakes not to make in a crisis
bripblap.com 10/11/2008 — If this is your first visit to brip blap , you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed and visit my about page. Watching the market these days you can be forgiven for a case of the heebie-jeebies. I’ve got them. You have two choices in dealing with ...
Profiting Over Lunch
alephblog.com 10/6/2009 — If I can pull this off, I’ll pay for lunch on this one.
I admire two organizations: the Hussman Funds and CrossingWallStreet.com. Both live near me. They have different views on whether the market is overvalued or undervalued.
Take these two posts:
The first was Eddy’s post ...
Profiting From Oil â Peak or Not
investmentu.com 9/21/2009 — Tony Daltorio , The Investment U Research Team It seems like the only times that the financial media talks about oil is when they mention either demand destruction in the United States or an inventory buildup of fuel, etc. in the United States. The ...
Top 5 mistakes in starting investing (and a business)
thickenmywallet.com 11/21/2008 — In a previous life, I use to meet a lot of people with start-up businesses. They are absolutely great people to meet because they possess so much energy and passion. It is like having a bolt of energy walk into your office. But, alas, you also ...
Repeat After Me: We Are Responsible for Our Own Mistakes
capitalgainsandgames.com 12/27/2008 — Mark Landler makes a number of good points in his New York Times article , "Chinese Helped Inflate American Bubble," but he leaves out the most important one. The U.S. government, on behalf of U.S. citizens, decided to run budget deficits during a ...
Trading Scared is Trading Scarred
traderfeed.blogspot.com 4/8/2009 — A trader dropped me an email today to explain that he was "trading scared": missing out on opportunities because he was overly risk averse. As luck (or Freudian psychology) would have it, he spelled "scared" as "scarred". That little slip revealed ...
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