Archive for Video Post
The Weekend Trader – Cause & Effect: Stopping the MF Global Spin Machine
Posted by: | CommentsToday’s post implores the CME & CFTC to stop the current MF Global Spin Machine and heal the industry.
Telling it like it is … as always.
The Weekend Trader Returns: Special Video on MF Global Perspectives
Posted by: | CommentsToday I return to the video to supplement the last seven weeks of blogging and customer advocacy as it relates to the MF Global scandal.
The Weekend Trader – Everything is NOT a Nail!
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This week’s video edition of The Weekend Trader focuses on the importance of ADAPTING to various market cycles and rhythms to be successful on a daily basis, and helps explain why the S&P Trader “Jellie” term that we coined a few years ago has resulted in commonplace use in the trading industry.
Said another way, many industry “experts” (I thought long and hard about using that term) and vendors choose to have you focus on a single market cycle, rhythm, or dynamic … which we’ll call a “nail” … and which is naturally because they’re typically really good at hammering, or they’re trying to sell you a hammer. So everything looks like a nail.
Well, here’s a news flash. Everything is NOT a nail, and learning which market cycle or channel is in play during any given 5-minute interval, hour, or day, will keep you profitable in ALL markets.
As noted in Wikepedia, Abraham Kaplan is often credited with creating this “law of the instrument”, when he stated: “Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.”
All I’ll say is isn’t it time we separated the trading men (and women) from the boys (and girls)??
Then again as I state in the video, that would take … um, work? And we wonder why the losing traders so outnumber the constant minority who adapt and succeed!
I also discuss the current PivotPoint Advisors trade sequences in progress given current longer-term market dynmaics, as well as deciding to retain the $250 Jellie S&P Trading Webinar discount for just a bit longer to try to continue to “pound” (pun intended) the point home.
Just email me at don@donmillereducation.com if interested and I’ll email a discounted invoice.
Have a wonderful weekend and trading week.
The Weekend Trader Part 2 – Video is Back!
Posted by: | CommentsAfter two and a half long months, we’re back with video!
Today’s video addresses the weekly PivotPoint Briefing, various personal updates, and also makes available an opportunity for a trader to partner in shared trading capital using the proven Jellie methods and techniques.
So let’s get right to the video …
The Weekend Trader – Continuing the Journey
Posted by: | CommentsThis weekend’s video covers a number of topics including the May 10 PivotPoint sequence, re-reading the hundreds of prior posts for reinforcement, the upcoming Jellie Training Session, my recent Walk to Emmaus, and some life and blog “adjustments” as a result of the Walk.
Have a great weekend … I love you all!
The Weekend Trader – Awaken the Sleeper!
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Did you know that only 4% of elements in this universe can be seen by the human eye?
Or that science and faith are inseparable?
Or that we’re not only given the ability to create the seen from the unseen, but the OBLIGATION?
Why is it that some people seem to be able to “predict” future events … including trading outcomes?
Yet too many continue to deny themselves — and in return, the world — such possibility by playing victim.
Today’s video responds to the enormous mailbag to last week’s post of my upcoming Emmaus talk by continuing to emphasize why faith and trading (and everything else in life) must remain forever linked, and why it’s flat-out wrong to try to compartmentalize them.
Links to references in the video include Nick Castellano’s book, “Awaken the Sleeper” (Nick was a featured speaker at this year’s Kingdom Economic Summit), and the comments section of my January 16th post which discussed the topic of Christians as traders.
The Weekend Trader Part 2 – Short vs. Long-Term Trading
Posted by: | CommentsToday’s video makes some comparisons between our longstanding short-term trading principles – as is currently being reinforced by our Trading After Dark efforts – and longer-term timeframes which are currently in play.
I also continue to thank those who have purchased TAD caps and shirts in support of our fun, charitable effort.
Special Post – My Challenge to “Watson”
Posted by: | CommentsNote: Please turn UP your audio volume for the start of the video below so you can hear the referenced clip.
Tonight, I was “floored” by a few excerpts from the recent production “Floored” addressing the inability for human traders to compete against computers and alogorithms.
As I’ve stated throughout the last decade – and proven through actual long-term performance, countless live trading efforts, and now - the Trading After Dark effort (including Episode 3 released yesterday) – such a perspective is beyond lame and is simply DEAD WRONG.
And so, like a few years ago, I’ve put yet another industry challenge out there to dispel this notion.
Yet unlike the recent Watson vs. human Jeopardy challenge, I don’t expect to lose.
Seems to me we’ve been down this road before (see paragraph 5 of the attached).
