I asked Andre what could be learned from the recent lightening and wind damage to a giant walnut tree next to my house.  Truth be told, I wanted to have an excuse to use the photo-shopped picture at the left.

Thanks Andre.

“The market is like the weather, unpredictable and sometimes very volatile. The tree represents an overall position in the market and the branches, contracts in different markets. No branch is the same on a tree and similarly and, hopefully, the contracts are in non-correlated markets.

The tree is a beautiful tree providing shade for the trader and his house and it took years for it to grow to its current size.   Read the rest of this entry »

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