Tag: options

Friday Q&A: Brad Thomas – Professional Trader

I had an interesting conversation with Brad covering the global macro situation which I decided to record. I’ve excerpted a slice of it below which I felt was pertinent to the types of trades that Brad hunts for, and then we answer a couple of this week’s questions. If you

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Friday Q&A: Brad Thomas – Professional Trader

We’ve got quite a few questions to cover this week. Enjoy, and don’t forget to send your questions to Brad here. Question: Can you suggest a good platform for trading? I’ve been using Schwab but curious what you think is best. I’m not a newbie so I don’t need full

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Friday Q&A: Brad Thomas – Professional Trader

We live in a surreal world dominated by central bank interference, liquidity driven markets and simultaneous collapsing credit conditions (China) and record bond purchasing (US). As if this wasn’t enough, we have the crisis in Ukraine forcing liquidity out of Europe. Over in Japan we’re experiencing a body slam to

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Friday Q&A: Brad Thomas – Professional Trader

We are pleased to announce that a new and much-anticipated feature of Capitalist Exploits is now here. Every Friday our “head” Trader, Brad Thomas will be answering readers questions. Questions about the markets, how to trade them, how to manage risk, the macro, the micro and much in between. If

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More Pain for the Yen?

In late 2011 I started shorting the Japanese Yen. I spoke about it here, here and again here. I even tried to employ my skills in evaluating private equity deals to evaluating Japan. I was coming up empty. I’ve employed a basic position of long the USD/JPY cross, long XAU/JPY

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Trading with One of the Best

Fundamentals matter. Every piece of history I’ve read indicates this to be the case. When investing, which is to say placing capital with a long-term view of a particular outcome, fundamental analysis works. Trading the markets however can often involve an entirely different approach and yet be profitable at the

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Trading Lessons from a Reformed Idiot

Have you ever done something so stupid that you really never wanted to discuss it again… ever… ever, ever, ever? I’ve previously discussed some random lessons learnt so far. Today I have a shameful story to share with you, and its roots are in a dark, dank and rotten place…

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