When you find yourself in a foreign land or in an unfamiliar area of town, do you ask for directions or do you just try to plow through the situation using pure instinct? Personally, I prefer to wing it, which doesn’t make my wife happy. Sound familiar? Putting a little cultural color into this blog, […]
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Trust U
It’s time to set the record straight. My name is Cynthia and I’m an engineer. (Greek chorus: Hello, Cynthia.) Okay, I’ll grant it’s been an awfully long time since I’ve done any true engineering (fixing the ice maker in the refrigerator doesn’t count, does it?) but it’s the way I think and it’s completely […]
What? I need more than a hammer in my trading toolbox?
I remember my first Investools class. My pencils were sharpened and my mind was open. It was a big day. I was about to be given the map to the holy grail of financial freedom. By lunch break, I was bursting at the seams to tell someone all about that beautiful trade with the funny […]
What’s the Best Trade? aka, Earning a Red Feather Boa
Last weekend I was dancing burlesque on a stage… Now, without cheating and googling, I’m going to go out on a limb and say that probably no one has ever started their options trading blog with this sentence. It’s actually relevant, though, so stay with me here a bit. (SFW!) I am not a dancer […]
Message For Those Newbie Traders Out There
Are you a new trader or have you been trading for years? For the newbie traders out there reading this blog, brace yourselves because there is no going back to your old self. Yep, it’s all over. Throw out the old, bring in the new. Sounds like Hugh Hefner’s marital cycle. For those who have […]
Connecting ThinkOrSwim to Excel Part 4 of 4 – Finale
Written and contributed by Rich Kaczmarek If you go back to Part 1, the very first sentence you read was: You can’t beat a spreadsheet for turning big chunks of data into actionable information. Over the course of this article, we’ve reviewed different mechanisms which allow ThinkOrSwim to communicate with Excel, written equations that use […]