With the impending announcement on Wednesday of a potential interest rate increase for the first time in over seven years, there’s a lot of talk about the effects it may have on the market. What about the central bank itself? What is it exactly? …and when did it come about? Does a country even really…
Archives for January 2017
Episode 122: The Importance of Mindset
When learning martial arts, you don’t start with training the body. You start with training the mind. A recent student of Tim’s shared this insight at one of his classes, and the insight applies just as much to trading as martial arts. You need the right mindset and and attitude or you’re setting yourself up…
Episode 120: Mentors and Mindsets
For those new to trading, the concept of a mentor can easily be dismissed. You’ve paid for classes, read the books, and watched videos on how this trading thing works. You’ve got this, and don’t need any further assistance. …do you really have trading down, though? Why is it that you’re barely breaking even? …or…
Episode 119: Jim Francis, Trading Identity, and Trading Systems
Finding your trading identity early is important as a trader. The type of trader you are determines the strategies that apply to you, when you trade, and even the securities themselves. Misapplying the wrong strategy to a situation that it doesn’t fit can lead to disastrous drawdowns and frustration as a trader. That said, there’s…
Episode 118: Fading Markets and Mid-Season NFL
To say the market’s been acting a bit strangely this year would be an understatement. Surging bulls on bad economic data, bears on improving economic data… it’s a bit crazy. Looking past the surface action, though, reveals that this year’s movements indicate a standoff of sorts between the markets and the Fed. With interest rates…
Episode 117: Time Management and Interest
Time management is increasingly important in modern society. Utilizing your time efficiently can mean the difference between having the ability to start your own business on the side and feeling like you’re always half a step behind as you watch the latest episode of a cooking reality show. Like any other skill, it can be…
Episode 115: Bear Markets and the Fed
Central banks across the world held the bear markets at bay for the past several years with quantitative easing and the printing of trillions of dollars’ worth of currency, and within the US, keeping interest rates at 0% for close to a decade. Despite talk that the rate would increase earlier in September, the can…
Episode 116: Stock Pick Fantasy League
Episode 114: Andrew Sather and removing emotion from trading
Episode 112: Caleb Light, the Fed, and Football
Caleb Light knows his stuff when it comes to finance, and he was able to show his stuff when he countered Mark Cuban’s offer on Shark Tank with an options buy-in that wouldn’t dilute his other shareholders’ position. One of the founding members of Power Practical, Caleb Light is an outdoorsman from Billings, Montana that…