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I have just finished ‘The Heretics of Finance“. It has struck me that there are so many approaches to making money in this trading game. Even among technicians the difference of opinion is rampant:

Astrology doesn’t work - Yes it does!
I wouldn’t pay a penny for Gann (Elliott) - I didn’t make money until I […]

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Guys and Gals, be warned, this blog is going to be a rant.
One thing that has the power of getting under my skin is when I see products and services promising the world with no effort. There are two industries in which these types of offers abound: the world of Internet marketing and in […]

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An event that seems to have escaped the main stream press is Moody’s rating in February that although the US was still triple-A, it was no longer rated among the safest triple-A.
‘Sorry Ray, I thought that triple-A meant “risk free”?’
Not any longer - at least not in respect to sovereign bonds. There are now […]

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Here is the next video. We’ll be tracking the S&P because that instrument is the one most readers favour.
The video will outline:

Why I believe the current rally will stall,
What my favoured setups are
 How I propose to take advantage of the sell setups should they appear.

Refer this blog post to a friend or colleague… […]

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A recent story in Bloomberg (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=avuSh1tOi.Wg&refer=home) reveals that MF Global (London) was ordered to pay a day trader around US$30M. The judge ruled that the former MF Global account manager had intentionally deceived the day trader, Raj Gill by telling Raj he was making money whereas in fact, he was losing money - to […]

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In her magnum opus, Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand coined the phrase, the ‘aristocracy of pull’. By that she meant a structure where economic success depended not on how well I exchanged the best of my efforts for the best of yours but on how well connected I was to rulers of the day.
In modern […]

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Cross ref:
http://awanginvest.com/?p=1242
Ray Barros has been invited by ET NOW for a telephone interview on:
Tuesday, May 12 2009 @ 1150am HK time, for the first time!
Anchor : Andy Mukherjee for Mumbai
Topics:

Theory of new lows being tested.

Levels of Indian Indices-Sensex and Nifty

Nikkei in the bear market

Commodities

Dollar is […]

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Hi All
Judging by the number of e-mails I have received, the monthly videos appear to be a hit. Certainly true, judging by the requests for a new video.
Be patient Guys and Gals. I am not a day-trader. As soon as a trade sets up and I enter the market, I’ll put the video up. […]

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An attendee to my webinar sent me Jermey Bentham’s lastest report (GMO). It’s free to those that register at the site. My response to James turned into a Ben Hur; a response I felt was worth posting. So here it is:
Hi James
Thanks for the pdf’s heads up.
Jeremy came at the conclusion via a […]

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The attached piece by Rochdale Research is timely. I was going to write a piece on the Law of Unintended Consequences and Richard Bove writes an excellent article on the topic’s application to the ’stress tests’ for banks.
Bove’s article highlights the dangers of the Government becoming involved in business decisions - from Chrysler to ’stress’ […]

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