BarroMetrics Views: The Forgotten Index
It is difficult for those living in Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong and China to comprehend impact the ‘Sub-Prime’ crisis had on the US and European economies, especially in relation to jobs. As a friend said to me the other day: “Recession, what recession? I’d call that the “Phony Recession”. (He was […]

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BarroMetrics Views: A Personal Journey to Gold-Medal Trading; Values (3)
So far we have looked at the values of  honesty, integrity and accountability. The final values I want to consider are commitment, perseverance & resiliency.
Commitment to our vision, and the ability bounce back from setbacks, are absolutely necessary if we are to succeed. Without commitment […]

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BarroMetrics Views: A Personal Journey to Gold-Medal Trading; Values (2)
The second value, integrity is a close kin to honesty.
Integrity for me has a number of meanings:

Living one’s life according to one’s professed moral code - walking our talk.
Keeping one’s word to others.
Keeping one’s promises to oneself.

While the three are similar, they are also different. In […]

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It has been a hectic few weeks: partially because I have been implementing the steps to creating a new educational process; partially because I was moving from the Icon to Richmond Park.
As with all things some aspects went without a hitch and with some aspects whatever could go wrong did go wrong.
But that is all […]

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Ray Barros, CEO of Ray Barros Trading Group charts GE, Dow, FTSE, Jakarta Composite and more. He shares his technical analysis with CNBC’s Oriel Morrison.
We are bullish on RHG, Auto Holdings and Paperlinx, says Geoff Wilson,
portfolio manager of Wilson Asset Management. He speaks to Ray Barros,
CEO of Ray […]

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BarroMetrics Views: A Personal Journey to Gold-Medal Trading
Over the next few weeks, I’ll be using the articles here as the framework for a new book I’ll be writing. It will be the story of a journey - from lawyer to novice trader to master. Along the way, I hope to be able to share some […]

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BarroMetrics Views: The Impact of Change on NOT
Given the exchange I had with Baz yesterday, I felt an example of what I meant was in order. I said that the NOT’s expectancy return had not changed: they are what they have always been. I took Baz’s comments to mean that NOT probabilities for success had […]

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BarroMetrics Views: Success and Trading; Reply to Questions
Next week and over the following month, or two or three, this blog will form the foundation of a new book I have decided to write. It’s about:

the lessons I learnt since I placed my first trade in 1969
what it has taken for me to get to […]

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BarroMetrics Views:  Change in Methodology (II)
Our trading methodology needs to fit our personality. That being the case, my search for a new approach meant that I would need need to look for an answer among indicators and moving averages. My personality looks for ‘price structure alone’ rather than ‘price structure as moderated by some indicator’.
I […]

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BarroMetrics Views:  Change in Methodology
Two readers have raised important questions about the change in methodology and timeframe.
The questions will take up a couple of blogs.
I’ll take Joe’s question because that will also answer Peter’s. Joe asks: “I assume that you are now trading with much shorter time frames with more frequent entries and exit( hence […]

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