@basso_tom

Retired money manager and futures/currency trader, golfer, winemaker, author of The All-Weather Trader, and believer in behavioral economics.

 Scottsdale, AZ
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Joined January 2014
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Lots of ways to make a voting system vulnerable...

It's almost like CA made the state election fraud friendly... 🤬

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Are traders missing out on an interesting liquid market?

I even used to use some of these labels to describe the crypto markets, and when they first came into being, some of the labels might have even been true, especially if your portfolio was housed at so…

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I know some of you wish would talk more about trading, but...

Many of you are tired of me talking about non-trading topics and you've told me so, but I can't shake this feeling that many US voters have not taken the time to understand the diverse nature of elect…

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My own experience with the new food pyramid

About 12 years ago, I found myself 15 pounds heavier than during my fast-break basketball days in college. I was working out, feeling decent, and aiming for a Mediterranean-style diet. But my blood wo…

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Dealing with position sizing in markets that go crazy, like silver

Seems like time for a little position sizing discussion. Silver has been going nuts lately, with swings over 5% in a day. Lots of potential reasons for those swings, but if you make it super simple an…

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Continued Caution Warranted

I don't predict as many of you traders that follow me know all too well. I preach about not predicting frequently. Well, this is not a prediction. I have no idea whether the market is making a false b…

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Be careful out there...

Well, the waiting is over. NVDA seems to be going higher after close. I haven't had to even mention the word hedging in my posts for months. The stock markets in the US just keep on moving higher late…

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@elonmusk and the US have no alternative

@elonmusk is working on DOGE, because he, along with our country, have no alternaive but to DOGE our government. The US has been on an unsustainable path for decades, spending more than it takes in, s…

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Programming help for new traders trying to automate

Looks like those manual traders that keep repeating, "But I don't know how to program" will be getting some help in automating their trading. The new Grok 3 was tasked with the following:

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Be like a Boy Scout

I came back from lunch and we had Fox Business on the TV to watch what the Fed decided to do. I would have thought we would simply hold where we were. The economy is trying to chug along. Markets were…

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Understanding the Why

A recent Steve Burns @SJosephBurns post on something Paul Tudor Jones said many years ago motivated me to write down some thoughts.

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And They Tell Me The Desert is Bleak...

I've been watching our new house's landscape scheme settle into its first year of growth to see how I did with the design I created. Most don't know that I took a semester long adult education course …

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