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Market Wizards’ Schwager Video

January 23rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Off-track

I really enjoyed reading Jack Schwager books (Market Wizards and New Market Wizards) where he interviews top traders. So, I was pretty pleased when I found this presentation video where Schwager goes over his findings on what makes great traders. Entertaining and worth a watch at the weekend…
His material is not directly linked to automated [...]

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Joyeux Noel and Happy New Year!

December 22nd, 2009 · 2 Comments · Blog, Books, Off-track

Wishing you all a fantastic time off for this end of year!
Be it with friends, family, or any way you will spend it….
The Au.Tra.Sy blog will be no exception and go into a short “hibernation period”.
I certainly seem to have hit a (small) motivation “roadblock” and slowed down in my research/development of a trading system [...]

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Turkey or Black Swan for Thanksgiving?

November 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Off-track

Although I am based in London, most readers of the blog are from the States – and everybody around the world probably knows it is a very important day for Americans: Thanksgiving!

Traditionally, it is a time to express gratitude and I’d like to express a big thank you to all the readers of the blog. [...]

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Snow White looking over your trading system?

October 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Off-track

Introducing a new Category, Friday Funny: Every now and then, I come across something interesting or funny, not directly related to the topic of this blog. If I find them good enough and interesting for the target audience of this blog, I’ll post them here (in “off-track” category) – on a Friday, to end the [...]

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What can the Whipsaw Song by Ed Seykota teach you?

October 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Off-track, Trend Following

Ed Seykota is a hugely succesful trend follower. He also keeps a very low-profile. You will not see him on CNBC, so any sort of public appearance where he can distil some of his wisdom is a rare “gift”.
The main message of the song is to “stick to the rules” – which is a fundamental [...]

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