- What everybody knows is not worth knowing. Everybody is in agreement that the economy is slowing so what is the edge of making negative bets based on that fact?
- The stock market is not the economy. Yes the stock market correlates to the economy most of the time. But sometimes it leads, sometimes it lags and sometimes it does neither.
I started by taking off my long term trades when the markets reached extremes. Once I realized I was pretty good at picking out the extremes, I started placing short term trades that went against my longer term beliefs. That was my breakthrough and my profitability shot through the roof to the point that I eventually built up enough money to trade and invest full time.
2 comments:
Well put.
Equity call buying seems to be back this AM.
It is the morning after expiration so it might not be so bad. I hate to rationalize an indicator but I always do put a little less weight on readings around expiration.
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