Trader Mike

Unfortunately I haven’t had a chance to read my review copy of Timothy Sykes‘ new book ‘An American Hedge Fund: How I Made $2 Million as a Stock Operator & Created a Hedge Fund’. But since you all read financial blogs I’m sure you’ve seen at least one of the many rave reviews across […]

I’m really looking forward to reading Kedrick Brown’s book, Trend Trading: Timing Market Tides. It’s been near the top of my reading list for several weeks now. (I really need to carve out more reading time!). I’ve only skimmed through it thus far but it looks like a very good read. Kedrick […]

Somehow, between writing for his own site, his TraderFeed Blog, TradingMarkets.com and various presentaions Dr. Steenbarger found the time to write a new book, Enhancing Trader Performance. I just got my hands on a copy and am looking forward to reading it. Dr. Brett wrote a little bit about the book yesterday […]

Michelle B submits: A daytrader I knew who had a very high-percentage win rate, around ninety-five percent, when faced with a loss, would let it run. He was capitalized enough to do what he called “pouring on the gasoline.” This activity of his would involve “lining up cans of gasoline as far […]

Michelle B submits: The Disciplined Trader by Mark Douglas sits near my trading turret in a place of honor. Following rules is very problematical for traders. Having rules, and some traders have many, is not the same as being disciplined. A disciplined trader follows his rules, while a trader who […]

After reading some of John Carter’s articles in Stocks, Futures and Options Magazine I was looking forward to reading his then upcoming book “Mastering the Trade: Proven Techniques for Profiting from Intraday and Swing Trading Setups“. It was obvious from his articles that John had some good insights into how the markets work […]

Here’s a book that fans of “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator” should enjoy: “Fifty Years in Wall Street” by Henry Clews. I saw this book in the bookstore this morning. It has an interesting, er, story — it’s been out of print forever but Victor Niederhoffer had a copy of the older […]

Earlier today I was in a bookstore flipping through the new, expanded version of Trend Following to see what was in the new edition. (Here’s my review of the original edition.) I almost fell over when I saw my name in the acknowledgments. Thanks for the shout out Michael! Now I […]

In writing How Markets Really Work: A Quantitative Guide to Stock Market Behavior (buy from Amazon.com) Larry Connors and Conor Sen (son of fellow blogger Ron Sen, MD) set out to do for the stock market what Moneyball did for baseball — debunk conventional wisdom trough the use of statistical analysis. This quote […]

I’ve gotten some comments from people who have read that ‘Stikky Stock Charts’ book so I’m glad that my quick analysis of that book seems to be on point. ‘Doink’ left this comment today:

I read “Getting Started in Technical Analysis” first, got confused, then found Stikky Stock Charts. Great beginners book, took me […]