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By Art Collins |
November 1, 2010
Identifying a market anomaly that gives you an edge seems exciting, but it is only a baby step in a long process of defining and exploiting that edge. Next you have to build a trading system to use it
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By Art Collins |
June 24, 2010
Review of "The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich"
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By Art Collins |
April 1, 2010
"The New Commodity Trading Guide" illustrates a trader's mindset.
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By Art Collins |
February 19, 2010
A review of a beginner's guide to short-term trading.
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By Art Collins |
September 1, 2009
Book review of technical trading manual.
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By Art Collins |
March 12, 2009
“The Heretics of Finance” is a compilation of interviews with technical trading experts done in a question-and-answer format reminiscent of Jack Schwager’s “Market Wizards.” Each individual is
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By Art Collins |
February 11, 2009
“I. O. U. S. A.” is most famously a 2008 cautionary movie á la Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth.” As with “Truth,” I. O. U. S. A. has broadened its scope to become a multi-media crusade. The title
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By Art Collins |
November 17, 2008
In mechanical trading research, more corroboration is always better than less. Something that produces spectacular results in five years of data can be good; if it also holds up even marginally in
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By Art Collins |
August 12, 2008
Among the conclusions: we humans impose order on random events; we get more fixated on the size of a reward, such as a lottery, than on the improbable odds of hitting it. The anticipation of a score
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By Art Collins |
June 16, 2008
Bennett A. McDowell asserts that most indicators are derived from either price or volume. They are like diluted second-generation copies of the real thing, and as such, they can lose effectiveness,
