Recent content by martymr

You're in good company here, so know you're not alone. Stress and anxiety stemming from trading is extremely common. In fact, one of trading colleagues had to take a year off because the emotional stress of going through a substantial drawdown forced him to make irrational decisions regardling...

I encountered this very thing back in 2004 when I started a separate business venture for the first time. I didn't tell my family or friends about it in the beginning stages, simply because I didn't want any nay-sayers who couldn't relate to the entrepreneurial mindset to discourage me from...

Frank, Tom's feedback is spot on. Don't make it any more complex than it has to be. Leave that to all the vendors and gurus who make a living (and therefore the bulk of their earnings) peddling complex-sounding trading products that make it SEEM like you can't survive without their system...

This is an interesting thread to my personally, since my trading method hovers in the correlation arena. My particular approach, however, is based on the natural cyclic flow of INDIVIDUAL currencies - not pairs. My experience with my own method tells me that correlation between currency pairs...