January 24th 2007 08:08 pm
About Me
Hi! My name is Jonathan and I have been trading stocks and futures for over 13 years. I guess I got bored writing my trading journal to myself so I thought it would be cool to post daily excerpts to a blog. I use a simple methodology that has so far stood the test of time, 13 years anyway.
If I’m not trading, I’m feeding and watering the children. They keep me busy. Hope this blog is useful to you.
Regards,
Jonathan
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9 Comments »
Ben Bittrolff on 21 Sep 2007 at 3:29 pm #
Hi Jonathon,
As you’ve noticed, I do indeed consider Bernanke’s rate cuts a mistake. He could have accomplished his goal of re-starting the debt markets with a 50 basis point cut in the discount rate alone. Instead he pulled off a double whammy, cutting both the discount rate and the Fed funds rate. In response, the dollar dropped, commodities rallied (think Crude Oil, Gold in partiuclar) and rates actually increased. Yeah, thats right, post cut, rates actually increased. Since most mortgage rates use the 10 year Treasury rate as a benchmark, mortgage rates have actually climbed for many mortgages post cut. I make my case and present some of the evidence in todays post The Bond Vigilantes Are Back (http://benbittrolff.blogspot.com/2007/09/bond-vigilantes-are-back.html).
Love the blog BTW. Keep up the posts and happy trading.
Michael on 23 Nov 2007 at 10:25 am #
Jonathan,
I really enjoy your blog. Everything is clear, concise and practical! Thank you!
I’m not a full time day trader but I’d love to acquire enough experience and knowledge for it. I’ve looked at tons of books and they all seem to give the same partial information about technical analysis. Basically, just giving the basics but no usable specifics.
What literature would you recommend? May be something that helped you?
Michael
Jonathan on 23 Nov 2007 at 2:50 pm #
Hi Michael,
Thanks for stopping by. It depends on what you’re looking for in terms of literature. I think William O’Neil’s How to Make Money in Stocks, provides a consistent, repeatable methodology.
There are a ton of good blogs with solid information. If you’re looking to day trade, read through tradermike.net.
One book I consider to be a must read is Way of The Turtle by Curtis Faith. I would read this before anything else.
Hope this helps. Keep in touch.
Jonathan
james on 12 Dec 2007 at 2:49 pm #
Hi, was wondering if you knew of a free site that shows at the end of the day a stock’s trades -the individual price and volume of each trade that took place on a particular day. what i am looking for is to see the size of the bigger trades.
thanks so much enjoy your blog.
jim
Jonathan on 12 Dec 2007 at 7:13 pm #
Hi Jim,
Sounds like you’re looking for time and sales data. I don’t know of any free resources with that data. If I find anything, I’ll let you know.
Jonathan
Alan Lee on 01 Jan 2008 at 5:27 am #
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I’m at www.makemesomemoney.co.uk
Happy new Year!
Thanks
Alan
Bull rally on 03 Apr 2008 at 10:12 pm #
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Jonathan on 07 Apr 2008 at 2:31 am #
Done.
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