Jokes, comics and other serious matters

Fun@Finance

The market has no sense of humour, so somebody has to. Jokes, comic strips, cartoons, limericks and riddles about trading and the people who do it. None of it is advice.

The joke box

One a day. More if you insist.

32 one-liners about charts, spreads and the people who stare at them.

The daily riddle

Today’s joke appears once the page has loaded.

The comic strip

The Bull, the Bear and Wick.

6 strips in three panels. The Bull is sure it is going up, the Bear is sure it is not, and Wick, a candle, has seen both be wrong.

The Mind Room, where the same habits are games

1/6The plan

The Bull: I have a plan. Entry, stop, target. All written down.
The Bull: It moved two pips against me.
The Bull: New plan.
The Bear: That was eleven seconds.

Cartoons

One drawing, one line.

The same three, caught at a single moment.

The Screening Room

“I just feel that people only notice me when I’m red.”
The one hour a week on which they agree: the market is closed.
He had set an alarm for the release. He had not set one for the time zone.
“I called it.” “You have called it every day since we met.”

Limericks

Five lines and a moral, more or less.

Each is about a habit. Some of them end well.

The Verse Room

A trader who swore by a linedrew twelve of them, each a design;the price wandered throughall twelve, as prices do,and he said, “Well, the thirteenth is fine.”

Riddles

What am I?

10 riddles. Turn one over for its answer.

The weekly riddle

The other dictionary

What the words really mean.

The glossary gives the definitions. This gives the ones people use.

The real glossary

Bull: Someone who thinks it is going up and would like you to agree, loudly.
Bear: Someone who thinks it is going down and has thought so for years.
Breakout: The moment a price leaves its range, usually to fetch something and come back.
Consolidation: A chart’s way of saying “typing…”.
Dip: A fall you approve of.
Correction: A fall you do not.
Indicator: A second opinion, from the same data.
Demo account: The place where everyone is a genius.
Stop-loss: The adult in the room.
Pip: Small, until multiplied.
Volatility: What you asked for, in a quantity you did not.
Overnight position: A house guest that keeps a tab.
Risk-reward ratio: A promise you make to yourself, in fractions.
Hindsight: The only strategy with a perfect record.
Economic calendar: A list of times to be somewhere else.
Spread: The cover charge.
Sideways: The market’s hold music.
Trading journal: A book in which the villain is always the author.

The excuse machine

It was never your fault.

Three reels: who did it, what they did, and what follows. Any resemblance to a real explanation is a coincidence.

The real mistakes, in the practice room

Who

did what

and so

The real reason is usually in the journal.

Trader bingo

A card for the week.

24 habits and one free square. Mark the ones you recognise. Five in a row is nothing to be proud of.

The Mind Room

Mark what happened this week. 0 marked so far.

The card is not kept: it clears when the page is closed.

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