Archive for August, 2009

  • Ratings
    Aiki14 Market Sense, August 30th, 2009 at 4:22 pm, Comments: 0

    The value of a rating is dependent upon the quality of the entity issuing the rating. If you went to see a movie because a critic rated it a must see and found it to be horrible, would you place much value in the critics rating of the next movie? How about if the critic [...]

  • Responsibility
    Aiki14 Market Sense, August 27th, 2009 at 3:27 am, Comments: 0

    Yesterday I was at a friends office chatting about the market and the upcoming event we were attending. While we were doing this a man entered the office and went into the first room inside and grabbed a laptop computer off the table and ran out. He was seen by one of my friends employees [...]

  • Audio Interview With TraderInterviews.com
    Aiki14 Market Sense, August 20th, 2009 at 11:16 am, Comments: 0

    I spent some time with Tim Bourquin who runs a terrific website called TraderInterviews.com Tim interviews professional traders and provides the recordings to subscribers. Here is a link to the interview, it's 41 minutes of audio

  • Good thing the Main Stream Media has us covered
    Aiki14 Market Sense, August 18th, 2009 at 10:52 pm, Comments: 0

    In todays Wall St. Journal online edition the following two headlines appeared Reluctant Shoppers Hold Back Recovery and Banks, Retailers Fuel Rebound So the reluctant shoppers must be the ones who only buy wholesale or there are a few un-reluctant shoppers really stepping up. Whichever view you have the good old WSJ has it covered. [...]

  • “I operated very consistently within the ethics guidelines I had” – Henry Paulson
    Aiki14 Market Sense, August 9th, 2009 at 1:41 pm, Comments: 0

    Nothing I have ever read about Henry Paulson suggests he would be the kind of guy I would want to have a beer with. In fact the same can be said for nearly all of the high ranking Goldman sachs men who have found their way into “Public Service”. As it turns out I don’t [...]

  • Twitter Attacked
    Aiki14 Market Sense, August 6th, 2009 at 12:58 pm, Comments: 0

    I am not a tech guy at all, if it wasn’t for my buddy Jeremy I wouldn’t have this blog, I don’t know a bit from a byte and have no idea of how the stuff I write on this screen gets to you the reader. I use macs predominantly but I use PC’s to [...]

  • No Admission Of Any Wrong Doing
    Aiki14 Market Sense, August 5th, 2009 at 12:59 pm, Comments: 0

    When the SEC raises charges against a firm and the firm agrees to settle the matter for a certain amount of money, most of the time they pay the fine with NO ADMISSION OF ANY WRONG DOING. As I mentioned in my previous post to this blog, Bank of America agreed to a settlement with [...]

  • Reactions To The BAC Matter
    Aiki14 Market Sense, August 3rd, 2009 at 1:01 pm, Comments: 0

    Today Bank of America was charged by the SEC for making materially false statements in the matters surrounding the Acquisition of Merrill Lynch. Ken Lewis told Congress on 12 feb 2009 he had “no authority” over the lavish bonuses Merrill Lynch gave out days before its taxpayer-financed takeover by BofA was finalized - but documents [...]

  • Numbers
    Aiki14 Market Sense, August 2nd, 2009 at 1:03 pm, Comments: 0

    Trading and investing are numbers game. Today I am going to examine two ways I see numbers and their effects on, and relationship to my way of going about this game. First is the numbers we use to base our assumptions, rationales, and theories on. This group of numbers are generally grouped into the category [...]