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Laboratory Solar Flares Reveal Clues to Mechanism Behind Bursts of High-Energy Particles

Like a rope breaking strand by strand, solar flares kink and break when too much current flows through them, triggering massive blasts of X-rays

“Corona loops are arches of plasma that protrude from the surface of the sun, aligned along magnetic field lines. The magnetic field lines act like highways for charged particles, guiding the motion of the electrons and ions that comprise plasma. The loops, which may project 100,000 kilometers above the sun's surface, can persist for minutes to hours. The loops usually grow and evolve slowly but sometimes can abruptly blast a tremendous amount of energy—billions of times stronger than the most powerful nuclear explosion on Earth—into space. This sudden blast of energy is called a solar flare.

Some of the energy in the flare takes the form of charged particles and "hard X-rays," which are high-energy electromagnetic waves like those used to image bones in a doctor's office. The Earth's own magnetic field and atmosphere act as a shield that protects life on the surface from getting cooked by these torrents of energy, but they have been known to disrupt communications and power grids. They also pose an ongoing threat to spacecraft and astronauts in space. 

While the fact that solar flares generate energetic particles and X-ray bursts has long been known, scientists are only starting to piece together the mechanism by which they do so.”

“Among the recent discoveries are that solar corona loops do not appear to be a single structure, but rather are composed of fractally braided strands akin to a large rope.

"If you dissect a piece of rope, you see that it's made up of braids of individual strands," says Yang Zhang, graduate student and lead author of the Nature Astronomy paper. "Pull those individual strands apart, and you'll see that they're braids of even smaller strands, and so on. Plasma loops appear to work the same way."”

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Learning When to Quit

Quitting is often considered an expletive. IT MAY SEEM EXAGGERATED, but when watching superhero or sci-fi flicks, you can’t help but scratch your head at the mentality people demonstrate in some scenes. Yes, I understand the need to build tension and that it’s fictional for entertainment value, but sometimes, people should know when to quit. SO, I GRABBED A POPCORN. On the big screen, a man…

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A Surefire Method to Increase Your Profits and Improve Your Golf Game

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Whether it’s golf or trading, it’s all about stress control.  If you were sitting across the table from me and I booked a $10,000 loss, and then in the next hour I closed out a trade for a $10,000 profit, I would wager you even money that you could not tell the difference by my outward emotions. 

For this reason, I immediately related to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal about Dr. Robert Goldberg’s research into trying to help golfers ward off the stress-induced fits of madness that they call the “yips”.  The golf course is a treacherous and unforgiving place where even the world’s best players are susceptible to tortured mental states at the most inopportune times.   Doesn’t this sound exactly like your trading room?!

There are actually true stories of pro golfers being hospitalized due to panic attacks.  One must remember that golf – like trading – is as much about the mind as it is about the body or the data.  Dr. Goldberg’s approach is promising because he utilizes a wristband that measures stress in real time by shooting small electrical charges into sweat glands.  The data is then sent to an iPhone via wireless Bluetooth which displays a stress graph with peaks and valleys showing the degree of discombobulation being experienced by the golfer.

I trust the parallels to stock market trading are self-evident.  The break-through with this is that both golfers and traders could use this information to understand what triggers stress on the green or in the trading room and then go about unearthing solutions.   If you can recall a specific past trade where you were clearly the architect of your own demise, Dr. Goldberg’s wristband could rescue you next time or at the very least provide you with some useful insights into what might be holding you back from achieving peak performance.

With a few caveats and some generalizations, Dr. Goldberg’s research has found that the more accomplished the golfer, the more their stress level remained static during their swing as well as during the entire round of golf.  Likewise, for a trader, even a small amount of stress can cause increased heart rates and butterflies that may have a direct influence upon their buying and selling decisions.  Stress is literally kryptonite to traders.  Stress disrupts their equilibrium and affects their decision-making.  Anything we can do to minimize the “yips” will flow directly to the bottom-line. 

Dr. Goldberg’s device, known as “bandu” should hit the market in 2014.  Don’t be surprised to see traders wearing this new wrist jewelry both in the trading room as well as on the golf course.  I recall something Isaac Asimov once said:  “It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time.  People say “it’s as plain as the nose on your face”, but how much of the nose on your face can you see unless someone holds a mirror up to you?”  For us traders, I believe Dr. Goldberg’s wristband could very well become our magical mirror.

Trade well; trade with discipline! – Gatis Roze

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What Is Technical Analysis?

Technical Analysis is the forecasting of future monetary price trends based upon an evaluation of past price movements. Like weather forecasting, technical analysis does not result in absolute predictions about the future. Rather, technical analysis could assist investors expect what is likely to take place to rates in due course.

Technical analysis makes use of a large selection of charts that reveal price over time.