I have a new site and a new blog

Posted on April 5, 2009
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I have a new website. I hope you like it. I want this new one to be a little bit more dynamic so I can use it to communicate with you.

http://www.theparttimeinvestor.com.

It comes with a feature I can use to communicate to people so I may not actually use this blog anymore. I will leave it open for reference.

Those who subscribed to the email updates from Feedburner of my blogs will still continue receiving the updates. If you think you have stopped receiving updates from this blog, let me know. Email admin@marquezcomelab.com.

Do You Know Where The Soul Is?

Posted on March 17, 2009
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“There have been many arguments about the location of the immortal human soul. Could it be in the heart, in the head, or perhaps diffused throughout the whole body — an all-pervading spiritual quality unique to the human being? The answer, it seems to me as a zoologist, is obvious enough: a man’s soul is located in his testicles; a woman’s in her ovaries. For it is here that we find the truly immortal elements in our constitution-our genes.”

-Desmond Morris in The Human Animal (1994).

I Am Back In The Market

Posted on March 15, 2009
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I did say that I have been appointed as a member of an Executive Team for a company we are building. With me having to fly overseas, time, events and Internet access were uncertain, I decided to pause my trading. Mentally, also, I could not focus on my trading, so I thought it would be best to pause it.

In my book, The Part-Time Currency Trader (p211), I wrote about how the performance of traders are affected when they undergo exciting changes in their lives such as getting married, getting a new job, having a newborn child or buying a new house. I did advice that when such changes are affecting you that you pause your trading. In this case, I was just following my own advice.

After a couple of weeks of deliberation, I finally decided to start trading again. I have assessed the chances of my trading regimen being disturbed and I think I can trade with minimal disruptions now.

I hope your trading has gone well. I heard, and read, that the market has been very volatile. As a trader, I look forward to volatility like a surfer looks forward to riding big waves.

I just placed my order ready to go for when the market opens tomorrow. I wanted to get back into the market a couple of weeks ago but there was so much to do.

I still did not have enough time to get acquainted with how the market has been behaving in my absense but I feel it is more important for me to get back into the rhythm of things by putting my trades in. When you have money on the line, you get serious in conducting your analysis. I will adjust my trading system during the week in time for next week’s trading decisions.

It’s a bit like going for a swim. Just get wet and get your head underwater. Only then will you know how cold the water is. You can’t spend too much time just dipping your toes.

Three years jail for Bush shoe-thrower

Posted on March 13, 2009
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The Iraqi journalist, Muntazer al-Zaidi, who threw his shoes at Bush, gets jailed for three years. The charge was “assaulting a foreign leader on an official visit” (source).

Financial wizards feel the heat

Posted on March 13, 2009
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TWO high flyers of the sharemarket boom, David Coe and Gordon Fell, face legal action over a series of “unreasonable transactions” and an investigation by the corporate regulator of the collapse of Allco Finance Group. (more)

‘Stop banks from sending jobs offshore’

Posted on March 13, 2009
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Finance workers are demanding that banks being protected by the government’s deposit guarantee scheme be stopped from sending jobs offshore. “If the Australian taxpayer is going to help Australian banks, one condition should be the immediate cessation of offshoring,” the union’s national secretary Leon Carter said. (more)

Very good point.

No quick recession rebound: NAB

Posted on March 10, 2009
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Australia is probably already in recession with no fast recovery in sight, according to National Australia Bank…”That is, the path of growth is more U than V shaped - with recovery not really getting underway till 2010.” (Source)

Freedom Under Fire: U.N. Anti-Blasphemy Resolution

Posted on March 6, 2009
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The UN is considering banning your rights to speak your mind about religion.

Population explosion ‘heralds disaster’

Posted on March 6, 2009
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THE world is overpopulating itself to a catastrophic future of terrorism and climatic disaster, according to a Melbourne University professor of reproductive biology…Professor Roger Short will tell an international conference in Sydney today that for the first time in history, human activity is outstripping the natural world’s ability to cope. The reason, he says, is exploding and uncontrolled population growth. (source)

US mortgage defaults reach record high

Posted on March 6, 2009
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Lenders are taking back homes in the United States at a record pace as families can’t afford mortgage payments… highest ever recorded foreclosures since MBA’s records began in 1972…US housing prices have plummeted nearly 20 per cent in the past year and more than 8 million people now owe more money on their mortgages than their property is worth. (source)