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Book Review: Beating the Indexes by Bill Feingold 23 Jul 2013 | 07:16 pm
A book about convertible bonds may not strike one as being particularly related to trading. There are aspects to it, though, which definitely fit. That’s why I decided to have a look at Beating the In...
Book Review: The Secrets of Economic Indicators by Bernard Baumohl 22 Jul 2013 | 04:59 pm
It’s taken me about a year, but I’ve finally gotten around to having a look through the 3rd edition of Bernard Baumohl’s book The Secrets of Economic Indicators. Now that I’ve done so, I really which ...
I am desperate, says a trader 25 Feb 2013 | 07:30 pm
I received the following note the other day with the subject “I am desperate”: Dear John. Thank you very much for your services, – you are doing a great job! The reason that I am writing you right no...
Credit card bans and the future of US retail forex 4 Feb 2013 | 05:05 pm
Last week I brought up the subject of a prospective new NFA ban on the use of credit cards to fund accounts in retail forex. There has been considerable discussion about this, as tends to be the case ...
Forex Trading – Volatility, Regulation, and Survivorship 28 Jan 2013 | 05:00 pm
There’s been considerable talk over the last few years about whether US regulators are killing (intentionally or otherwise) the retail forex business in the States. The latest round comes on the heels...
Forex broker profitability figures likely overstate trader performance 21 Jan 2013 | 04:01 pm
A couple weeks ago I began a discussion of retail forex trader profitability with my post Starting to detail forex profitability data, which generated some meaningful exchanges in places like (Trade2W...
Starting to detail forex profitability data 8 Jan 2013 | 05:00 pm
Each quarter US forex brokers are required to report customer account profitability figures, a requirement which went in to force in 2010 (with data back to 2009). As of this writing, the most recent ...
More evidence of wrong-way retail 3 Jan 2013 | 05:00 pm
At the request of my PhD supervisor, I’ve been working on a document that will no doubt be part of my overall dissertation. It’s meant to explain retail spot forex in an academic manner (meaning multi...
Most Popular Essentials of Trading Pages in 2012 2 Jan 2013 | 05:00 pm
Every year I like to look back and see which blog posts got the most readership. Here is the overall list, which includes a number of oldie-but-goodie entries. An Introduction to the Fixed Income Mar...
Ideas for your 2013 trader reading list 1 Jan 2013 | 05:00 pm
Happy New Year and welcome to 2013. Since I know many of you probably have gift cards for Amazon and the like burning a hole in your pocket, I thought I would help you spend that money by offering a u...
