Published in June 18th, 2009
BarroMetrics View: S&P 2009-06-18
I have received a couple of queries of what to expect from the new Video/Twitter Forum page. Today’s blog will be an example except that the forum will probably be in bullet point rather than in full sentences. Also, it’s worth mentioning that while I call it a forum page, the communication […]
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Published in June 17th, 2009
BarroMetrics Views: It’s Your Money, Husband It! II
There has been a twist to this story but for the sake of continuity let me tell it the wa I would have yesterday.
My propective new broker answered my query about security of my funds by ‘providing a bank guarantee’. I asked for more details, and he scheduled […]
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Published in June 17th, 2009
The trial of the service designed to assist NOT purchasers has served its purpose. It’s clear that apart from the weekly video and ‘twitter updates’, a interim, bullet-point type written update was required to achieve what I wanted.
I am in the process of setting up a forum for the’Video/Twitter Service’ and expect the forum to […]
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Published in June 16th, 2009
BarroMetrics Views: It’s Your Money, Husband It!
This blog focuses on highlighting the risks traders face when choosing brokers.
A little context: I view brokers as being in a fiduciary relationship and as owing a fiduciary duty to their clients. Ray, what in heavens name do you mean? It sounds like legal-eagle double talk!
Think of it in […]
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Published in June 15th, 2009
BarrosMetrics Views: Does God Play Dice With the Universe
The more I learn about human nature, the more I doubt the veracity of Einstein’s oft repeated statement: “God does not play dice with the Universe”.
Here’s why I say that in relation to our behaviour around trading.
We are born ‘tabula rasa’ and in the process of ‘growing […]
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Published in June 12th, 2009
BarroMetrics View:Pattern Recognition in Trading
It’s quite rightly said that for the most part trading technically boils down to pattern recognition; but since the days of Richard Wyckoff and perhaps prior to that, technical analysis has split into two camps:
Those who follow Wyckoff’s dictum that understanding the principles behind a pattern and the context in which […]
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Published in June 12th, 2009
Following on from the earlier announcement: here are my plans.
I want to create a backup for those that have bought the Nature of Trends. Hence I started the video service, I am adding a new wrinkle to make it more useful.
For a time, I’ll be offering a video analysis supplemented by Twitter updates. I am […]
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Published in June 11th, 2009
BarroMetrics View: “I Thought I Had Seen it All” Revisited
In ‘I Thought I Had Seen It All!, I wrote about offers that seemed to be too good to be true. Today I want to speak a reported outright fraud.
The Forex Peace Army is a site that rates forex brokers and reports on scams perpetuated on […]
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Published in June 10th, 2009
BarroMetrics Views: ‘Worthwhile Sites and Courses’
It’s time for a review. I have added and subtracted from my list of worthwhile commercial and free sites. in this list below, the letter ‘F’ stands for ‘free’ and ‘C’ stands for ‘commercial’. Some sites have both a commercial and free service.
Courses
Pride Educators (www.tradewithpride.com) [C]: at the top […]
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Published in June 9th, 2009
Hi All
I have been unhappy with the delivery of the video content. The idea was to provide a means to allow Nature of Trend (NOT) readers to see the Barros Swings in action. I don’t think that has been happening in an organised manner.
So I will be announcing some changes on Friday - changes which […]
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