* How the use of imagery can help in changing our patterns of thought and behavior; (Dr. Brett note: imagery techniques are especially promising in cultivating
the still mind needed to attend to
one's feel for the markets).
* Retail sales for back-to-school looking weak;* Nice look at blogs that offer quantitative analyses, including some newcomers;* Market Rewind continues a series of excellent posts; this one on a system for switching trading strategies; Jeff's member site (trial subscriptions available for his service) features a video on pairs trading. Sweet!* Statistics make recovery look better than it actually is; one not so good stat: two-thirds of current home sales are either foreclosures or banks taking losses on sales;* A prop trader's views on dark pools of liquidity; an article on why dark pools are not a particular threat to traders and investors; (Dr. Brett note: this is one reason I focus on transacted volume, rather than orders that increasingly aren't appearing/resting in the book);
* A growing professional class in emerging economies is a significant development;* China continues to pursue acquisition of raw materials companies..
