MIKE PAULENOFF'S ETF TRADING DIARY
Michael Paulenoff has been a student of and a participant in the world financial markets since his graduation from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in 1979. Early in his career he analyzed the fundamental and technical aspects of the financial and commodity futures markets for Smith Barney, Harris Upham, and for Drexel Burnham Lambert. From 1988 to 1993 he was President of MJ Capital Inc., a market analysis and trading firm, which advised clients involved in the financial futures and commodity markets. In 1992-93, he co-authored, The Business-One Irwin Guide to the Futures Markets (with Stanley Kroll).
Republic National Bank recruited Michael in January 1994, for the position of strategic trader, and market analyst on the bank's trading floor, which included analysis and trading of instruments in foreign exchange, emerging markets, stock indices, and precious metals. In February 1999, Michael founded MJP Market Strategies, Inc., a financial market advisory firm, and developed www.mjpstrategies.com in October 1999. In addition, from August 2000 through August 2001, he was the chief on-air market consultant and strategist for JAGfn, a live, daily 8-hour financial market webcast and cable TV show produced by Jagnotes, Inc.
Mike has been a contributing analyst to Harry Boxer's The Technical Trader since June 2002, and in February 2003 launched MPTrader.com.
Webinars:
Jan 19, 2010 Webinar on TraderInterviews.com
Interviews:
WinningonWallStreet Radio Interview: March 6, 2008
Recent Articles by Mike
Mike's "Guru's Corner" Contributions on CBSMarketWatch
Mike is regularly featured every few months on CBSMarketWatch. Click to view the archive of articles Mike has written on ETFs and E-minis, along with his macro analysis of the markets.
Mike's Primer on ETFs
Published by request of TradingMarkets.com, this article examines how Mike selects ETFs and the combination of technicals, fundamentals and macro analysis that goes into timing trades. Also re-published on eSignal.
Interview on Optionetics.com
3-Part interview by Optionetics senior writer Jeff Neal on Mike's strategies, history, tools, and favorite trades.
Mike's Market Analysis on "Weekly Wizards"
As part of AdviceTrade's Weekly Wizards column, Mike provides a macroeconomic analysis of the markets, reviewing equities, bonds, currencies & commodities and their inter-relationships.
Mike's Outlook for Treasuries, Gold, Oil & Equities Heading into 2006
This nine-page, year-end report provides technical chart analysis on these four key markets, projecting levels for the first quarter of the new year.
Mike's Cover Story on E-minis in Stocks & Commodities Magazine (October 2004)
An abstract of the article.
Mike's Diary of an E-mini Trade (Hard Right Edge, October 2004)
An illustration of how Mike uses pattern analysis and a variety of chart time frames to assess a trade.
Mike's Q4 2004 MacroAnalysis -- First published on CBSMarketWatch (10/13/04)
Mike's Primer on E-minis - First published on CBSMarketWatch (11/21/03)
About ETFs
Exchange-Traded Funds, or ETFs, are index funds that trade just like stocks on major stock exchanges. ETFs differ fundamentally from traditional mutual funds in that they trade instantaneously all day long (rather than at the closing price of their portfolio, like mutual funds). There are ETFs for industries (i.e., the SMH for semiconductors), indices (i.e., the DIA, SPY & QQQQ for the Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100), metals, energy commodities, international stocks, Treasuries, and even currencies. Pick an asset class that is publicly available and there is a good bet that it is represented by an ETF or will be soon.
For more information on ETFs, please visit YahooFinance's ETF Center.
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