Rogue Traderette

I admit it – I’m jealous. Right now, I want to be American.  I want to buy cheap houses and eat mega-huge fast food. But most of all, I want a stock market that goes up. Ours appears to have forgotten how.  In fact it’s almost as though it’s pulled the doona* over its head and decided never to g...

Recently I got a little surprise jolt of happiness. It happens occasionally when some of my favourite things are combined – like coffee, Bailey’s and ice-cream; or suncream, salt water and sand. My happy combo today was diamonds, ETF’s and Tadas Viskanta. Mr. Viskanta kindly shared this link on...

It’s quite funny, really, the extent people go to to make themselves feel certain and ‘safe’ in the market environment – an environment that is characterised by uncertainty and risk. It’s not only private traders like myself, either; this desire to create certainty extends to money managers and ...

I don’t like being wrong. I especially don’t like being wrong when it involves money. When I see a sea of red on my screen, it makes me just the teensiest bit tetchy.  I’ve gotten a whole lot better – it used to make me nauseous. And when I’m wrong, I beat myself up. Horrible, bitchy alter-ego Je...

Trading a small account can suck. As you’ll already know if you’re a regular reader of my blog, I spent a good amount of time last year ‘testing’ a system I devised, and as luck would have it, it performed brilliantly.  In percentage terms, it was pretty incredible.  Unfortunately in real dollar...

Last week in trading blog-world I stumbled across something truly frightening. I know that sounds very dramatic, and you may think there is nothing all that frightening about trading – it’s just trading after all – but let me explain. One of my recent followers on Twitter has a neat little trading ...