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Highs & Lows: history repeats itself
There’s this great graphic showing the ancient seashore in North America and how this 100 million year old geological feature votes Democrat. The idea is that the shoreline was a rich habitat for creatures that died and formed the rich black soil in the deep South that was perfect for growing cotton. Because of slavery…
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Sympatico: untangling Schrödinger’s bag of quantum cats
Einstein famously joked that quantum entanglement was “spooky action at a distance” because it defied common sense that anything could interact instantaneously at arbitrary distances seemingly without a connection between them, but in experiment after experiment scientists have shown that if you divide your bag of quantum cats and fling them at remote suns they…
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Yo Momo So Fat: get a real-time momentum scan in ToS
When I traded small-caps I was always a little jealous of the profitable momo traders that made enough money to justify a TradeIdeas subscription and a popper scanner that instantly alerted when a stock started gaining momentum, whether from news, technical analysis, or just plain pump and dumps. I had tried creating a custom watchlist…
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Auto Trendlines: are we there yet
I’m not sure I’ve really explained how I draw trend lines. I’ve talked about the easy bit, literally *how* to draw them, but there are a few things I’ve learned about trend lines that make price action a whole lot easier to read. For one thing, trend lines aren’t just there to be broken or…