About
Welcome to my blog. Why flow? Markets are all about the flow of capital. Money is always moving. And, not only is money moving on a daily basis, money is moving on a tick-by-tick basis, and for that analysis, we will be looking at TradeFlowTM. TradeFlowTM is an innovative way to see what traders are really doing in the electronically traded futures markets. I’ll be posting my observations based on TradeFlow analysis of the futures markets. I will also take a daily view of market leaders based on the action of exchange traded funds, and the broad market. In addition, I’ll be posting articles on trading.
Why should you be interested in my writings? My twenty plus years in the markets began at Merrill Lynch as a commodity account executive back in 1979. There I worked with speculators and hedgers in futures markets, primarily agricultural, precious metals and forest products. Next, I moved to Drexel Burnham Lambert and was appointed Vice President Financial Futures. In that role I worked with banks hedging their asset/liability exposure using financial futures. I left the sell side of Wall Street and became a trader for the Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle, which at that time was a seven billion dollar institution. We were active in the Fed Funds markets, Treasuries, mortgage-backed securities and their derivatives, financial futures, money markets, and agency paper. I followed that with nine years as Editor of Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities magazine. And, as a magazine editor and writer I have interviewed and worked with hundreds of well known traders, money managers and analysts.Since leaving S&C magazine, I worked with private traders, wrote as contributing editor for Active Trader Magazine, and traded the markets for myself.
Why should you be interested in my writings? My twenty plus years in the markets began at Merrill Lynch as a commodity account executive back in 1979. There I worked with speculators and hedgers in futures markets, primarily agricultural, precious metals and forest products. Next, I moved to Drexel Burnham Lambert and was appointed Vice President Financial Futures. In that role I worked with banks hedging their asset/liability exposure using financial futures. I left the sell side of Wall Street and became a trader for the Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle, which at that time was a seven billion dollar institution. We were active in the Fed Funds markets, Treasuries, mortgage-backed securities and their derivatives, financial futures, money markets, and agency paper. I followed that with nine years as Editor of Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities magazine. And, as a magazine editor and writer I have interviewed and worked with hundreds of well known traders, money managers and analysts.Since leaving S&C magazine, I worked with private traders, wrote as contributing editor for Active Trader Magazine, and traded the markets for myself.
Today, I am Director of Marketing for CQG.
The goal of this blog is to talk about everything related to trading. I will pass on my thoughts, primarily through articles, that are the product of my experiences. Many of you may not remember when gold was trading over $800.00 an ounce and silver had tagged $50.00 back in 1980. Or, you could get 16% yield on a 2-year Treasury in 1981, or the stock market crash of 1987. Then, there was the major bull market in equities driven by the technology mania that peaked in 2000 and did not bottom until 2003. I was there for all of those bull and bear markets.