It was roughly ten years ago when I saw this “pay to prop trade” business model for the first time. Since then, many, many copycats have popped up and it's easy to see why: this is not the most challenging business to get going, and the money (seems to be) pretty good. It really [...]

It was my 10th grade English teacher who introduced me to a slew of famous social experiments, most of which are centric on obedience, authority, and conformity. Stanley Milgrim, Asch, the Stanford Prison Experiment, etc., are all extremely well-known but seem to have done nothing to change [...]

While  it's obvious I have lost most of the blogging bug over time, I still enjoy getting things up here every rare once and a while. And while there are innumerable topics to discuss in this business, the more compelling ones tend to stem from a broader understanding of what we're interacting [...]

I rarely do any kind of recent market commentary these days because I would never be able to keep up with it. I've been in this business for a good amount of time now. I was active during the last recession and I'll be blunt: that is the last time I have seen trading like […]

I feel as though I can never take in enough when it comes to execution. Had I known years ago what I know now, I would have made this a much higher priority in my early days. There is a bit of a problem with this, however, as most of what we know nowadays was […]

I have a ton of posts on my backburner here and just wanted to do some spring winter cleaning and push some of them out. As many of you know by now I'm a user of volume-based profile, which stems from the original works of market profile (which uses time, not volumes, as a constant). […]

I have known the founder of FinancialJuice.com for many years now and just a couple months ago, he contacted me seeking feedback for a squawk service he launched a while back. Even with people have known for a long time (you too, FJ 🙂 ), I evaluate everything that hits this site anymore. I have [...]

I haven't been nearly as active on this blog as I would like to be in the past few years, and so please consider this post more a framework so some of you can better understand my own interpretations of volume profile, as I receive a decent number of questions about it. This is less […]

Like anything else, trading has its fair share of fads. They come and (generally) have a much harder time disappearing vs. something like fanny packs. People are drawn to novelties and things perceived as “easy”. Whether it be a new diet, kitchen gadget or anything else out there, [...]