In this post we discuss why we have entered a long position in gold. We have been bullish precious metals for some time and recently were able to initiate a long position. So why did we enter? What makes gold attractive? How do we manage risk? This post is a good overview of what we do and how we do it. If you are interested in trading

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In this post we attempt to explain how we go about finding investment themes and how we go about investing in them. For instance what types of research we use, what do we use for risk management, how does it make it into the portfolio?

Basically what is our thought process as we go about out daily business of trading and writing a newsl

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If you are looking for good places to focus your investment research you should read this. In it TheMacroTrader.com discusses some of the current themes that it is tracking and trading and explains some of the reasons that they are bulls or bears. They even give you a look albeit a small one into their current portfolio. Using their models

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Victor Niederhoffer is one of the most interesting people in the market. Or maybe he is just one of the most insightful. Heck maybe he is both. Either way he writes a lot of interesting and insightful posts regarding life, the markets, and several other topics. To top it off he has a bunch of really smart people that contribute to his blo

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This post at TheMacroTrader.com gives an overview of some of their screening criteria for global equities and then covers what is currently passing and what they are looking at. They aren't necessarily buying these right now but they are following

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As the title suggest there is a reason to be short investment banks and its not just because the bonus pool at Goldman Sachs is bigger than the market cap at Bear Stearns. No the reason is in regards to the blog that Blograters highlighted today.

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In this article TheMacroTrader.com highlights its use of a Junk Bond or High Yield Bond trading model against its benchmark. What they are able to do is outperform the underlying fund on an absolute and risk adjusted basis. In fact on a risk adjus

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Dr Brett nails what hampers so many of us from becoming as successful at anything. We have a lot of self inhibiting habits that over time make it harder for us to achieve our goals. Here he is talking directly at traders but these same things hamp

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This is a great article discussing why we have so many people that have started multiple successful business and just keep doing it. Many people have some misconceived notion that they just want more money and while that may play a small part of it

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Dr. Brett is hilarious and spot on with this post about the three varieties of market idiots you are bound to come across in your trading career. I relate a lot to this. In the financial services industry I have come across countless examples of e

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Its a good thing his baseball team is doing well because his hedge fund/CTA products are sucking bad. This looks like it will be the fourth year in a row that John Henrys funds will be down. Basically if you invested with John Henry after reading

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Barry Ritholtz over at thebigpicture.com is great. Here is a post from today explaining how even though rates were lowered yesterday the market is down today on inflation fears. In Barrys typical fashion he lays out several reasons and warning sig

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Systematic Investing and Trading is a great article explaining why you should incorporate both discretion and systems in your trading. By doing so you can capture more returns and be in the best risk to reward opportunities.

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Real Memes is a great site that really opened my eyes as to some other uses of the internet and how to quantify things that I had missed before. Take a look it is worth it.

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Great review of Greg Mankiw's blog on economics. A lot easier to understand and more pertinent to our everyday lives than most people think.

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