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• Starting 2010 with the truth about trading
  Anne-Marie's Trading Blog, Anne-Marie | January 3rd, 2010 at 1:06 pm

  

  The stock market is possibly the greatest competition in existence. Every dollar is in a contest where there is aways a winner and always a loser. A giant game with trillions in currency floating as zeros and ones staged in a virtual playground filled with some of the most calculating, intelligent minds in the world. Exactly who is our competition in this tournament we’re drawn to by independence, the allure of riches and self-indulgences beyond our imaginations? Many of us fail to consider this as we are pulled to this sport like moths to a flame.

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• Sniper Trade of the Day 12-23-09
  Anne-Marie's Trading Blog, Anne-Marie | December 23rd, 2009 at 8:17 am

  

  Click more for a video synopsis of why GAP might be an interesting company to watch over the coming days. Quite a bit of short interest and earnings on the way…

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• On Demand – Understanding Candlesticks
  Anne-Marie's Trading Blog, Anne-Marie | December 22nd, 2009 at 8:00 am

  

  We know there are far fewer successful traders than unsuccessful ones. When I began trading, I was dreadfully unsuccessful, and I do believe – based on the feedback I often get from students of mine, we all suffered from the same disease; we were marketblind.

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• Sniper Trade of the Day 12-18-09
  Anne-Marie's Trading Blog, Anne-Marie | December 18th, 2009 at 7:18 am

  

  The markets have been quite interesting and for many of us, they have been frustrating. We here at www.annemarietrades.com have been on target for 5 straight days running as to general market movement and overall direction.

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• Today’s Sniper Trade 12-14-09
  Anne-Marie's Trading Blog, Anne-Marie | December 14th, 2009 at 7:02 am

  

  Today, we’ll be looking at MA. MA is near a critical price level and should eventually breach the 247ish area. In order to play this correctly, watch the behavior on a 15-30 minute chart if you are considering a swing long and remember to always consider the slope of your moving averages before considering a trade in either direction. For a daytrade, go to smaller 2-5minute timeframe charts before considering your moves.

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• Doubt-the Rider of the Dragon of Failure
  Anne-Marie's Trading Blog, Anne-Marie | December 4th, 2009 at 8:14 am

  

  Okay, so not a confidence building poster, but it was funny to me.

  Doubt is the bane of existence (a toxic poison with the ability to kill)…to the trader.

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• What the ice takes, the ice keeps- Sir Ernest Shackelton’s Endurance
  Anne-Marie's Trading Blog, Anne-Marie | November 9th, 2009 at 10:55 am

  

  That’s a sentence right out of one of the journals kept during this voyage as they heard the hull of the ship crushing under the compacting ice, like a piece of paper that you ball up in your fist to watch it disappear into the bottom of the bin.

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• Free webinar tonight – See the trading system for this premium service at work
  Anne-Marie's Trading Blog, Anne-Marie | November 5th, 2009 at 10:49 am

  

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• Ernest Shackelton and a example of endurance
  Anne-Marie's Trading Blog, Anne-Marie | November 4th, 2009 at 8:34 am

  

  I was pondering about what to write when the topic of endurance came to mind, as this business tends to beat you with a hammer even when you are making gains: time consuming and filled with deliberate moves and painstaking attention, there is little that can take more out of you physically and emotionally like trading.

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• When there’s no-one to talk to after a bad day
  Anne-Marie's Trading Blog, Anne-Marie | October 21st, 2009 at 2:40 pm

  

  I chuckled when I saw this cartoon...because I have been that man. Let's face it...some times the market just beats us unmercifully. The psychological blows that coming from a string of losing days, or a particularly bad day for which you were not prepared are difficult to experience.

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• Cognitive bias and the real reason I don’t watch the news when I trade
  Anne-Marie's Trading Blog, Anne-Marie | October 16th, 2009 at 8:22 am

  

  There’s a strange truth in the market and it is this. We see genius quants in great firms design incredible algorithms that trade for us…presumably to take the human element away, but at the end of the day when we’re doing it right the human still outsmarts the greatest and most powerful algorithms around…with the key phrase in there being ‘doing it right’. An amazing catch-22, no? That’s why firms are still filled with people today and not just machines.

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• Video-Looking at charts on extended time frames
  Anne-Marie's Trading Blog, Anne-Marie | October 9th, 2009 at 8:27 am

  

  Please click continue reading to view the video.

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• Act Offensively, Plan Defensively-Learning from Humint Officers
  Anne-Marie's Trading Blog, Anne-Marie | October 8th, 2009 at 8:49 am

  

  In the intelligence business, an extremely important premium is places on how quickly information is gathered, processed and acted upon. Often, it is the difference between life and death; between mission success and failure.

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• Trading for 9/25 and a weekly snapshot
  Anne-Marie's Trading Blog, Anne-Marie | September 26th, 2009 at 11:29 am

  

  Just saw an entry in the weekly success ratio that really belonged to today’s trading…scratch that 2.47/.50 number; it should be 19.64/1.16 or 16 to 1

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• Learning from Humint Officers: The Powers of Observation
  Anne-Marie's Trading Blog, Anne-Marie | September 24th, 2009 at 3:04 pm

  

  Intelligence officers hold positions that are branded as cognitively demanding and high risk. If that isn’t trading, I’m not sure what is. As ‘cognitive demand’ is a dense subject, I’ll address it in pieces: beginning with – keen powers of observation.

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