Rhody Trader

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This evening I’m going to be doing a short interview with Tim Sykes.

Yes. I know that Tim is extremely polarizing. Some people think he’s a completely fraud. Others think he’s got something worth hearing. Personally, I think there are lessons to be learned from his story, but then I tend to see things that way. Others don’t.

Regardless of what you think of him as a trader, you do have to give Tim props for his ability to promote himself and what he’s doing. He says we’ll be talking about my experiences, lessons I’ve learned, and advice I have for new traders. Works for me. If it gets the word out there about the trading education stuff I’m doing and helps some folks do better in the markets I’ll be happy.

Oh my! Check out this spike in headline activity BlogBurst shows for yesterday on my other site, www.TheEssentialsOfTrading.com.

While it certainly looks that way, I can’t really tell specifically if that’s from picking up yesterday’s post (Calculating Relative Strength) or whether it was carryover activity from the previous day, or something like that. It does, however, look as though FoxNews is responsible. Before yesterday, Reuters was showing far and away the most activity for my content. Fox hadn’t even been on the radar, now I’m seeing this for the last seven days:

FoxNews - 73,657
Reuters - 36,031
Palm Beach Post - 7,361
Chicago Sun Times - 57

Come on. Relative Strength is interesting, but not that interesting.

I’ve just received notice from Sharky at Trade2Win that my submission for acceptance into the ranks of Advisors has been accepted with enthusiasm. Cool!

Of course I can’t help but feel a bit slighted at not be invited to become an Advisor months ago when the group was first started. I mean I used to work on the site. What’s up with that?

I’m now just 20 posts away from becoming a Legendary Member and a few points away from getting my first orange (or whatever that color is) button on my reputation.

Does this make me sad? 

The result of one of the most rambling phone interviews I can ever remember doing is the pretty awkward quote attributed to me in this piece: Another Rough Week for Stocks?

I know they say that not publicity is bad, but I have serious questions about this one.  At least they did spell the name right. My boss probably won’t be too thrilled that they didn’t include the name of our specific group - Thomson Squawk Box.