BarroMetrics Views: The Traders Round Table
Often I am asked: “Why do you teach?”
Sometimes I sense that the motivation behind the question is genuine curiosity; sometimes I sense that the motivation is: “you can’t be making as much money as they say - if you were that good, you wouldn’t be teaching”.
Both enquirers assume that […]

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BarroMetrics Views: Stock Market Cycles 2
Kress has 12 cycles, “2, 4, 6, 8. 10, 12, 20, 24, 20, 40 and 60″, all of which are related to the Fibonacci sequence in one way or another. The most important are the “2, 6, 10 and 30″.
CHIEF CHARACTERISTICS
Two Year: The ‘rule of alternation’ - an up year […]

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BarrosViews: The Nature of Price Action
I was listening to an interview of S James Gates Jr. During the interview he said (more or less): “Many believe science is about truth; that is a misconception. Science is about providing the best possible explanation of what we observe”. The assumption is the explanation is based on the […]

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BarroMetrics Views: A Day at InvestFair
Boy did I boo-boo!
We (my partners and I) took a booth at InvestFair. As part of the parcel, we were given a 30-minute presentation slot. I chose to give a talk that I had given to a major prop trading house not a week earlier. The talk had gone over […]

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Michael’s presentation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLqcmTJxams
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbevrrDzyxw
Ray’s half hour presentation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObAdWMH03vM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwXrHxC5TxI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eINpY6XOLeI
All taken with my iPhone.
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BarroMetrics Views: Stock Market Cycles
This will be a short blog. I have just stepped off a plane and have to rush to a meeting. You could say that today  my schedule has caught up with me.
I am fascinated by time. Yet in my search for  a theory that suits me,  I have yet to find […]

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BarroMetrics Views: Adieu Stanley Druckenmiller
Stanley Drukenmiller, seven years younger, and with 9.5 Billion Dollars more under management than I, has shocked the hedge fund industry by announcing his retirement.
Drukenmiller is an exceptional trader achieving around 25% for the last 10-year period (see Forex Traders). He is reported to be retiring because he is frustrated with […]

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BarroMetrics Views: Market Profile Principles
I am sometimes asked why I give Market Profile such a rap since I use ideas from the spectrum of technical analysis. The answer is Market Profile was the first discipline that explained how markets work. While I clearly could not Blog the entire gamut of Profile history, I can give […]

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BarroMetrics Views:  A Tale of Two Countries
Last week, we saw the GDP results from Germany; today we saw results from China. Both seemed strong but below the hood, there are clear differences.
FIGURE 1 shows the German growth and that of some of the major European members of the EURO bloc. Figure 1 shows that if […]

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BarroMetrics Views: The EURUSD 2010-08-11 II
Opps! The market beat me to the punch: I thought we’d see another day of sideways activity before seeing a sell-off.  So for today, rather than look for a place to enter, let’s assume, I missed yesterday’s move and I am now faced with the following:

Spit chips, whine and do […]

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