http://community.tradeking.com/blogs 2009-03-31T05:21:09Z TradeKing Trader Network tag:community.tradeking.com,2009-03-31:Blog/21390 2009-03-31T05:21:09Z 2009-03-31T05:21:09Z mpc220

The old joke is that it's a recession when your friends lose their jobs, and it's a depression when you lose yours.For me, it turned into a depression about two weeks ago, when I lost my legal job ...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2008-10-04:Blog/12666 2008-10-04T12:45:58Z 2008-10-04T12:45:58Z mpc220

What a week!  It's pretty obvious from that user pic to the left that I tend toward the short side of things, and from that perspective I'm a very happy man.  This was the most profitable...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2008-09-18:Blog/12189 2008-09-19T13:49:55Z 2008-09-18T17:22:59Z mpc220

You can write this day down, because September 18, 2008 will be the day the United States has given up its status as having some of the freest capital markets in the world.http://online.wsj.com/art...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2008-03-19:Blog/6585 2008-05-01T01:49:29Z 2008-03-19T18:51:44Z mpc220

Locogmac's recent post and the ensuing discussion got me thinking about stop losses.  I have a few short comments and an example from my own crappy trading.  Long story short, I thin...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2008-03-17:Blog/6487 2008-04-30T18:47:32Z 2008-03-17T21:15:07Z mpc220

I mentioned yesterday that Ben Bernanke was something like an old Greek hero, one who has lived his entire life to solve a particular problem by avoiding the mistakes of the past but who unwittingl...

tag:community.tradeking.com,2008-03-16:Blog/6423 2008-05-01T10:22:05Z 2008-03-16T20:02:36Z mpc220

A lot of people here don't like Ben Bernanke.  There are plenty of criticisms to go around: he's too eager to bail out the undeserving; he's too willing to throw money at our problems, driving...