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Saturday, September 30, 2017
4 Trading Articles to Help You Improve
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Some educational reading for all you aspiring traders out there. Here is a short reading list of some things to be aware of, and tools you can use, it you want to be a trader or a day trader.
Quit Your Job to Day Trade? Steps and Expectations – I break down what it really takes, and what to expect, if you want to make a living off the markets.
Use Fibonacci Retracements to Find…
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Should You Be Investing In Marijuana
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In April the world's first Marijuana Exchange Traded Fund, Horizon Medical Marijuana Life Sciences ETF (TSE:HMMJ) hit the public markets. The ETF went public at $10 per share and popped during its first few days of trading. When HMMJ hit the public markets, investors were craving exposure to marijuana stocks as new laws and regulations […]
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Friday, September 29, 2017
Like satellite images of human skin.
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A video artist spent months pouring metallic and fluorescent paint over his hands, nipples, and lips. This is the result.
So-so article, interesting concept: that women need to be “on” while men need to be congratulated for being “on.”
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Even having a conversation about the imbalance of emotional labor becomes emotional labor.
↩︎ Harper's Bazaar
Forget Mexican standoff; this is a Shanghai tollbooth.
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A driver and attendant were locked in prideful stillness for over a minute as both refused to reach any further for the driver's payment. The attendant eventually called for backup; apparently, the driver had been teasing her by yanking the card away whenever she reached for it, leading to the filmed absurdity.
Well, that's a good title.
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In case you, like us, are a fan of Dr. Bronner's products and you enjoyed the documentary about the crazy man himself, here's the trailer for the director Sara Lamm's latest film, Thank You for Coming.
As an adult, documentary filmmaker Sara Lamm discovered that she was conceived via sperm donor. She’s spent years trying to track down her biological dad, using her skills as an investigator to dig ever deeper to uncover where half of her DNA comes from. It’s a fraught premise — and one that threatens to upset her seemingly very happy and loving family.
“Tibetan Teen Getting Into Western Philosophy,” an oldie but goodie.
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It's so exotic and exciting, not like all that Buddhist 'being is desire and desire is suffering' shit my parents have been cramming down my throat all my life.
↩︎ The Onion
Tensions Rise on the Korean Peninsula
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The world is watching the Korean peninsula. The situation between North and South Korea has been tense for a long time, but it has been escalating amid increasingly bold rhetoric and threats from the leaders of North Korea and the United States. When North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, threatened a missile attack on the island
Investment Adventures in Emerging Markets - Notes from Mark Mobius
Mark Mobius, Ph.D., executive chairman of Templeton Emerging Markets Group, joined Templeton in 1987. Currently, he directs the Templeton research team based in 15 global emerging markets offices and manages emerging markets portfolios. As he spans the globe in search of investment opportunities, his “Investment Adventures in Emerging Markets” blog gives readers a taste for what he does, when, where, why and how. Dr. Mobius has written several books, including “Trading with China,” “The Investor’s Guide to Emerging Markets,” “Mobius on Emerging Markets,” “Passport to Profits,” “Equities—An Introduction to the Core Concepts,” “Mutual Funds—An Introduction to the Core Concepts,” ”The Little Book of Emerging Markets,” and “Mark Mobius: An Illustrated Biography."
Tensions Rise on the Korean Peninsula
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The world is watching the Korean peninsula. The situation between North and South Korea has been tense for a long time, but it has been escalating amid increasingly bold rhetoric and threats from the leaders of North Korea and the United States. When North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, threatened a missile attack on the island
Investment Adventures in Emerging Markets - Notes from Mark Mobius
Mark Mobius, Ph.D., executive chairman of Templeton Emerging Markets Group, joined Templeton in 1987. Currently, he directs the Templeton research team based in 15 global emerging markets offices and manages emerging markets portfolios. As he spans the globe in search of investment opportunities, his “Investment Adventures in Emerging Markets” blog gives readers a taste for what he does, when, where, why and how. Dr. Mobius has written several books, including “Trading with China,” “The Investor’s Guide to Emerging Markets,” “Mobius on Emerging Markets,” “Passport to Profits,” “Equities—An Introduction to the Core Concepts,” “Mutual Funds—An Introduction to the Core Concepts,” ”The Little Book of Emerging Markets,” and “Mark Mobius: An Illustrated Biography."
Market Mixed As It Wraps Up A Solid Quarter Of Gains
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Hello traders everywhere. As we come to the end of the third quarter in 2017, let's take a look at where the markets stand heading into the fourth quarter. The S&P 500 is on pace for quarterly gains of nearly 4% percent and its eighth straight quarter of gains dating back to October of 2015. […]
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Not “us”, but “them.” Nearly half of Americans don’t know that Puerto Ricans are United States citizens.
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Supporting aid packages for Houston and Florida while ignoring Puerto Rico is not, to me, defensible under any rational or ethical standard. It's just a 21st-century version of neglectful colonialism.
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Old bells played quite fast.
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From our new favorite video series, "Music Machine Mondays," in which different old musical contraptions around the Netherlands are featured on film. (Who knew?) In this installation the host improvises on a 500-year-old carillon.
Source credit: things magazine.
Learn to Swing Trade the Stock Market – 16 Video Course
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Download the Stock Market Swing Trading Video Course. 16 videos that include stock market basics, as well as three versatile strategies so you can start swing trading the stock market, efficiently and effectively.
Created by Cory Mitchell, CMT
To read comments and testimonials, check out the Course’s permanent page. Below is the Course summary.
The Stock Market Swing Trading Video Course provides an introduction to the stock market (for if you are new to trading…
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Here's the original article by Sean Flynn that inspired October's new firefighting movie.
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In case you've seen the trailer for Only the Brave, in which Josh Brolin takes a bath and Miles Teller goes blond, here's the original story by Sean Flynn, the crisis reporter for GQ. It's a marvelous piece of reporting—up there with Flynn's tick-tock account of the Utoeya massacre—particularly once you learn the ending and realize the amount of work Flynn must have done to get all of these details right.
(It's also very serious, without room for stupid jokes about bathtubs and hair, given the horrific nature of what ultimately takes place.)
A few excerpts below. Big time spoiler alert if you don't know the story already.
Hotshots are invariably referred to as elite firefighters, which suggests years of training, high-end equipment, and a mastery of the mechanics of wildfires. But none of that is required. The entry-level qualifications are a few dozen hours of classroom instruction and a decent level of fitness, and the primary tools are chain saws and Pulaskis, a speciality tool combining an ax and an adze. Hotshots also tend to be young—the average age of the Granite Mountain crew is 27, a number skewed by Marsh, who's 43—and few of them make a long career out of it.
And:
On a big fire with hundreds of personnel, it's nearly impossible for any one person to know everything that is happening in real time. Firefighters are spread over enormous distances, and even if the radios work perfectly, they're all on different channels. Transmissions are polluted with wind and static and background noise, and broken by ridges and gullies. Everyone on Yarnell Hill knows the flames have run wild. They can see it, and on the main channels there is much concerned talk about how it's slopping over the firebreaks, spotting on the far side of Highway 89 even. But most people don't realize Granite Mountain is in trouble.
And:
McDonough knows his crew was fully qualified and properly rested on June 30, and he knows none of the Granite Mountain hotshots was reckless or foolhardy. But he does not know why those men, why his brothers, decided to hack through a canyon swamped with unburned fuel. He can't know, because he wasn't there. And what if he had been? What if another man had been posted as lookout and Donut had stayed with the crew, had hiked to the saddle in the ridge above that canyon? He'd almost certainly be dead. Had any man on that crew felt threatened, McDonough said, had one of them doubted the chosen route, he would have spoken up. “Nineteen guys made that decision and took that choice,” he said. “That's what people have to understand. You can't force someone to do that.”
Oh, and Geoff Bridges is in it, too.
Friday Headlines: The White House needs a vagus nerve stimulation.
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Worrying about IQs is silly. Researchers aren’t good at measuring them, and they’re sort of useless anyway.
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IQ is very useful and powerful for research purposes. It’s not nearly as interesting for you personally.
↩︎ LessWrong
A poem for your weekend where the title says it all: “The Bachelor Watches The Bachelor,” by Jacob Saenz.
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In real life, my dates consist of dinner / at Burger King where we dine on chicken / fries & don paper crowns for a royal feel.
↩︎ Poetry Magazine
Pre-hedging debate at centre of Johnson trial
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Integral introduces flat fees on OCX
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ACI joins voices calling for changes to Principle 17
Home http://ift.tt/2ybRc3x ACI finds “no firm evidence or specific situations” where there is any likely benefit to clients from trading in the last look window
FXSpotStream hires San Pietro; adds State Street
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Thursday, September 28, 2017
Irma changed Houston, but Mimi Swartz wonders whether her city can accept this new reality.
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Houston’s can-do spirit saw all those people powering rescue boats and wielding crowbars. But the cockeyed optimism we’re so proud of has something in common with denial: things were good, so why mess with infrastructure improvements and the taxes needed to pay for them?
↩︎ Texas Monthly
A must-read by Nicole Chung on what it means to be an Asian-American adoptee in a white, pro-Trump family.
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I must convince them to acknowledge my racial reality in the first place, a task with which my white relatives have always struggled. Then I need them to recognize that my race does have an impact on how I’m perceived, how others speak to me, how I experience the world.
↩︎ Longreads
When John Cage made music with Marcel Duchamp.
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John Cage is famous for his aleatoric music, but the first composer to leave something to chance might actually have been the artist Marcel Duchamp, who published "Erratum Musical" in 1913. Later in life, Duchamp collaborated with Cage on a chess-based composition, the playing of which involved the covering or uncovering of the chessboard's 64 photoresistors.
CFPB Stays, But Cordray Goes
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The worst-kept secret in Washington is that Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray may be running for governor of Ohio. Whether that satisfies his political ambitions or not is unclear, given that if he wins he would have to answer to someone other than himself – the state’s taxpayers – a position he doesn’t […]
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A minimalist approach to synesthesia.
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A minimalist approach to synesthesia.
This enveloping, synesthetic experience is animated by Hagai Azaz with music by Michal Levy, playing Bach's "Prelude in C Major" from The Well Tempered Clavier.
Khot in the hot seat as defence cross-examination continues
Home http://ift.tt/2k7Dl86 Dipak Khot, who is testifying for the prosecution against Mark Johnson, undergoes six hours of questioning
Late to this, but time may not exist in Twin Peaks: Sarah Nicole Prickett’s full TP season three recaps.
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Imagine having been a child in the jaundiced dawn of the Atomic Age, anticipating the death of all you’d known, the reality at Hiroshima and Nagasaki transposed on your Manhattan, or your Missoula, Montana.
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Market Will Make A New High Next Week - Buy Calls
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Market Will Make A New High Next Week - Buy Calls
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Deutsche Bank's global head of FX forwards exits
Home http://ift.tt/2hAoxhu Mark Lewis leaves after spending 12 years at the German bank
Rollover in the Forex Market and Finding the Best Rates
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Each currency has an interest rate attached to it, and the difference in interest rates for each currency pair you hold could result in a debit or credit being applied to your account each night. Rollover (or swap) is a way to increase profits or reduce losses, or being on the wrong side of it can cut into profits or add to losses.
What Is Forex Rollover or Swap
Retail forex brokers apply something called…
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Wednesday, September 27, 2017
A lullaby for any babies who like Thom Yorke's warbling.
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To send you into your evening: Scenes and a new track for the BBC's Blue Planet II, scored by Hans Zimmer and Radiohead.
Yellen States Gradual Hikes Should Continue
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Hello Traders everywhere. The U.S. dollar rose to a one-month high as Republicans rolled out their U.S. tax reform plan and after Yellen's speech on Tuesday. Despite slowing inflation, Fed Chair Janet Yellen stated on Tuesday that she believes that the Federal Reserve needs to continue gradual rate hikes. Yellen delivered a speech in Cleveland […]
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A smart op-ed from David Brooks: Trump is doing exactly what he was elected to do—destroy post-Protestant America.
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America is seeing nearly as much cultural conflict as it did in the late 1960s. It’s quite possible that after four years of this Trump will have effectively destroyed the prevailing culture.
↩︎ The New York Times
John Lanchester gets to the heart of what Facebook is and what it does.
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On Facebook, the most common terms associated with the phrase ‘my husband is …’ are ‘the best’, ‘my best friend’, ‘amazing’, ‘the greatest’ and ‘so cute’. On Google, the top five are ‘amazing’, ‘a jerk’, ‘annoying’, ‘gay’ and ‘mean’. It would be interesting to know if there’s a husband out there who achieves the full Google set and is an amazing annoying mean gay jerk.
↩︎ The London Review of Books
Wednesday Headlines: Nobody loves Big Brother more than me, OK?
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Nex Markets launches new analytics tool
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How to overstuff a Young American.
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For no good reason whatsoever—except maybe to freshen up your hump day?—here's Cher and David Bowie, live on Cher's variety show in 1975, singing what appears to be a nearly endless medley of pop songs, bookended by Bowie's hot new release "Young Americans."
FX Tape free until volumes hit $1 billion a day, Galinov says
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Market Ready To Run - We Bought Calls Yesterday - Ride Them
One Option Trading Blog http://ift.tt/2hzDL2D Posted 9:30 AM - The market continues to look for a catalyst and earnings season will provide the fuel we need to breakout. Tech stocks have pulled back and they have excellent upside. The QQQ bounced off of the 100-day MA Monday. Yesterday I suggested buying calls in the tech sector. Today we are seeing follow-through buying and these positions perform well. Trump will reveal his tax plan and that should set a positive tone for the market. The healthcare bill is dead, the debt ceiling has been extended and the focus will shift to cutting taxes. Any rumors of a …
Market Ready To Run - We Bought Calls Yesterday - Ride Them
One Option Trading Blog http://ift.tt/2hzDL2D Posted 9:30 AM - The market continues to look for a catalyst and earnings season will provide the fuel we need to breakout. Tech stocks have pulled back and they have excellent upside. The QQQ bounced off of the 100-day MA Monday. Yesterday I suggested buying calls in the tech sector. Today we are seeing follow-through buying and these positions perform well. Trump will reveal his tax plan and that should set a positive tone for the market. The healthcare bill is dead, the debt ceiling has been extended and the focus will shift to cutting taxes. Any rumors of a …
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