Good Reads

As many of you may know, for the past year I've written 'Top Trading Links' for See It Market. Unfortunately, things change and the linkfest will be housed here for the foreseeable future.  

Changes are coming to make this weekly post even better. I'd appreciate it if you let me know what you think about these linkfests on twitter or stocktwits @ATMcharts.

Now on to the Good Reads!

2015 was an odd year, as it was a year that nothing worked - @PensionPulse

@RyanDetrick explains how this was one of the worst years for diversified investors in recent memory.

@PeterLBrandt tells us why the major U.S. stock indices aren’t making head and shoulders topping patterns.

@hedgopia - Is the housing slowdown foretelling a consumer spending slowdown in 2016?

Howard Marks was interviewed by Finanz und Wirtschaft

“Investors are not doing what they want to do. They’re doing what they have to do. They are like “handcuff volunteers”. Today, if you want to make a decent return you have to take risks.”

China’s Hang Seng Index is at a critical juncture - @KimbleCharting

Dividend cuts are coming at a pace that suggests economic contraction via Political Calculations

10 Economic Questions for 2016 via @CalculatedRisk

The Pros and Cons of a sideways market via @awealthofcs

A dozen things @trengriffin learned from Michael Milken about finance

@BartsCharts looks at buyable levels in Sam Adams shares

@TrinityAssetMan shares his surprises of 2015

@psacosta notes flat market years have generally been followed by significant gains.

Trading Insights:

Experienced traders can relate to @AnneMarieTrades discussion of the turning point of her trading career:

“…..the pivot point was the real embracing of the pain, and fear associated with trading losses that redirected my behavior to put me on the path of consistent successful trading”

The root cause of traders’ emotional problems via @steenbab

“The core problem, however, is the need to fit markets into a style of trading rather than finding ways to trade that fit with market behavior.”

Gatis Roze shares how he stays the course in his trading process

News, Stats and Ideas:

A cash free future is coming fast in Sweden via @nytimes

Passive funds are increasingly popular these days @business - This is a major shift for industry. Of course flows to passive management kept rising in 2015 even though elite active managers won the year and we saw a massive volatility shock in August. The catalysts that might end this trend are a cyclical bear market in equities, or a new bear market in treasuries. We'll see if they comes in 2016.

Global M&A surpassed 5 trillion dollars in 2015 via @Dealogic and @businessinsider

15 Startups to watch in 2016 via @venturebeat

@techtraderdaily shares some analyst color on next week’s Consumer Electronics Show

Thanks for reading!  Happy New Year