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Author: Michael Covel
- May 23, 2010Financial Literacy: Not on the Horizon
Just saw this headline and article from Associated Press: New financial rules might not prevent next crisis. Sweeping financial overhaul will change many rules, but loopholes could allow another crisis. When you…
- May 22, 2010Mikhail Prokhorov on too Much Information and Why Snowflakes Have No Relevance to Trading Succes
Feedback in: “Hi Michael, do you think that hidden divergence is a good indicator of trend continuation after a retracement? Thanks in advance.” Regards, Jeff Jeff, exact definitions of ‘hidden divergence’, ‘trend…
- May 10, 2010The Markets as ‘The Truman Show’
An excerpt I like: “The Truman Show is a 1998 American comedy-drama…The film chronicles the life of a man who discovers he is living in a constructed reality soap opera, televised 24/7…
- April 26, 2010The Magazine Indicator
In the last few weeks the media has gone ‘all in’ on recovery. All is rosy. The Dow is up. Good times are back! And when the media goes all in many…
- April 23, 2010“Speculation is Evil… You Greedy Bastard Covel!”
Alexander Ineichen writes: “The financial crisis was not ’caused’ by a single event or a single group of investors. More likely, a series of conditions needed to be met for the dominos…
- April 19, 2010What is StockTwits: It it of Use or Just a Bunch of Twits?
Howard Lindzon has said some very nice things about my books. Now that the disclaimer is out of the way: what in the world is the purpose of StockTwits? For example, from…
- April 7, 2010Why You Should be a Systematic Trend Follower
Want to be a millionaire? Start thinking and acting like one! That means joining the minority who make sound moneymaking decisions every day. How? First, understand that there are no free lunches.…