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December 5, 2017 By Joe Marwood Leave a Comment

How Market Wizard Blair Hull Times The Market

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30-years ago it was considered irresponsible to use a market timing strategy to try and outperform the S&P 500. In recent years as investors have started to gain increased levels of access to historical data and the tools to develop effective trading models, it might now be considered irresponsible to not use a market timing […]

Filed Under: Legends, Stocks, Strategies/ Systems Tagged With: market-timing, strategies

July 18, 2017 By Joe Marwood Leave a Comment

How Blair Hull Beats The Market With 12 Indicators

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Blair Hull is a legend of Wall Street and a former professional blackjack player. He was named by Worth magazine as one of Wall Street’s 25 smartest players and by Forbes magazine as one of the most successful traders of the last 40 years. Today, Hull operates a number of ventures including an ETF that attempts […]

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March 22, 2017 By Joe Marwood Leave a Comment

Is This The Best Trading Book Ever?

An excerpt from Man For All Markets By Ed Thorp: Occam's Razor

I recently finished reading the book A Man For All Markets by Ed Thorp. I have to say that I think this could be one of the best trading books ever written! Why? Simply because Ed Thorp is a true trading legend and in this book he details how he went about beating not just the […]

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March 7, 2017 By Joe Marwood 2 Comments

Timeless Investing Advice From Peter Lynch

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In this article I take a look at some timeless investing advice from Peter Lynch. Lynch is an American investor who ran the Magellan Fund at Fidelity Investments between 1977 and 1990. He’s one of the most successful fund managers of all time averaging an annual return for Magellan of 29.2%.

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March 8, 2016 By Joe Marwood Leave a Comment

Do Major Hedge Funds Use Technical Analysis?

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Technical analysis refers to the study of past price action to predict future market moves. It makes use of charts, trading volume, and other statistical or mathematical indicators to gauge how the market might behave, based on the concept that the fundamentals of an asset are reflected in its historical price action.

Filed Under: Legends, Opinion, Technical Analysis, Trading Tagged With: hedge funds, technical analysis

November 18, 2015 By Joe Marwood 9 Comments

25 Jesse Livermore Trading Rules : Ultimate Guide To The Boy Plunger

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In this post I take a look at one of the greatest traders of all time, Jesse Livermore. Jesse was famously profiled in the classic investing tome Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, a book that has been called the best trading book every written. This is a long piece, clocking in at around 9,000 words and it covers […]

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August 19, 2015 By Joe Marwood 12 Comments

How to Pyramid Like Jesse Livermore – The Boy Plunger Extraordinaire

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In the classic trading book, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, Jesse Livermore spoke a little bit about a professional gambler called Pat Hearne. Pat would treat the markets like a casino game (such as roulette, faro or blackjack) and his strategy was to make a series of calculated bets, always looking for small, sure wins.

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October 28, 2014 By Joe Marwood 1 Comment

Following Warren Buffett Will Make You Poor

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Warren Buffett is one of the richest men in the world and it is not hard to argue him being the greatest investor the world has ever seen. Sure, there are money managers who have produced greater yearly returns over the course of 10 or 20 years but none have been able to compound wealth so well […]

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June 13, 2014 By Joe Marwood 2 Comments

24 Best Jesse Livermore Trading Rules & Quotes

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Jesse Livermore, aka the Boy Plunger, aka the Great Bear of Wall Street, is one of the great American stock traders. He made (and lost) several million dollar fortunes buying and short selling stocks in the early 20th century and traded through the great Wall Street crashes of 1907 and 1929. His book ‘Reminiscences of […]

Filed Under: Legends, Lists, Stocks Tagged With: jesse livermore, share market, stock market, stocks, trading

June 6, 2014 By Joe Marwood Leave a Comment

How to play China like Jim Rogers

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If you want to be successful at investing or trading you need to find your own way. I don’t see much point subscribing to any of these stock picking services or ‘Guru’ picks. (Unless of course they are used to educate yourself as to how to find good trades.) That being said, one of my […]

Filed Under: How to, Legends Tagged With: china, investing, investment, jim rogers, Picks, share market, shares, stock market, stocks

March 26, 2014 By Joe Marwood 1 Comment

Jim Rogers Investor Profile

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– Jim Rogers investor profile and brief background – Summary of Jim Rogers current investments based on public appearances – Brief description of Jim Rogers’ best books, some quotes and videos Jim Rogers Investor Profile: Background Jim Rogers the investor is famous for setting up the Quantum Fund in partnership with George Soros, one of […]

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