Due to some very unpleasant emails I received after making some comments about racism in the Middle East, I have deleted the original Lonely Trader blog.

You can find the Lonely Trader 2.0 here.

We are a nasty, brutish lot -- even if we are well dressed, educated and "civilized". The venerated blogosphere seems to amplify this to a degree that I am uncomfortable with. Some people seem to treat it as a form of entertainment. Others, with thicker skins than I, seem to laugh it off.

Other places to reach me:

In the meantime, as always, if you have any ideas for what this site can accomplish for lonely traders, drop me a line. We have to stick together.

JRS

Not quite yesterday's news:

Monetary Policies and the Yield Curve. A. Haldane and  V. Read, Bank of England, 2000.

The Determinants of Currency Market Forecasts. John Harvey, Feb 2001.

How to Analyze Developed Market Currency Risk. Bank of New York, 2006.

Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together? Speculator Herding in the World Oil Market. Robert J. Weiner, Discussion Paper 06-31, June 2006.

Professional Trader Discipline and Trade Disposition. Peter R. Locke and Steven C. Mann, Discussion Paper, December 2003.

Fear and Greed in the Financial Markets: A Clinical Study of Day-Traders. Andrew Lo, Dmitry Repin, Brett Steenbarger, MIT/SUNY, 22 March 2005.

Global Risk of US Credit Crisis, Pt I. David Dapice, YaleGlobal, 21 September 2007.

A Guided Tour of the Market Microstructure Approach to Exchange Rate Determination. Paolo Vitale, Università d'Annunzio and CEPR, June 2004.