James Sogi

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James Sogi

Writings

06/12/06 Lessons in Humility
06/09/06 The Comfortable Trader
06/08/06 Guardians of the Temple: The Goddess
05/23/06 A Good Take-Off Spot
05/10/06 Market as Dialog
05/10/06 Market as Meaning
05/08/06 Wavelets Part 2
04/26/06 Wavelet Methods for Time Series Analysis
04/20/06 Magic in the Markets
03/29/06 Rivers
03/11/06 The Other Guy
02/10/06 Binary Modeling
01/14/06 Thoughts on the Tao of Spycraft
01/09/06 Intelligence Analysis
01/03/06 The Friendly Skies
01/01/06 Ode to a Rally
12/29/05 Contingency Tables
12/25/05 Christmas Tree Supply/Demand Curves
12/20/05 People Watching
12/12/05 The Emperor's New Clothes, or, How the Priests of Delphi Stay High
12/09/05 Heart of a Champion
12/05/05 Aggression Theory
12/03/05 Blue Planet Oceans
12/01/05Response to V. Niederhoffer and A. Castaldo on the Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis
11/30/05 Universal Geometry Part II
11/24/05 Globalization of Finance
11/22/05 Where do Probabilities come from?
11/16/05 Universal Geometry
11/14/05 Selected Quotes from the Fed
11/03/05 Strategy III
10/31/05 Contribution to the Dept of Ever-Changing Cycles
10/30/05 Bernanke's Models & Their Limits
10/16/05 Bruce Lee Strategy, Part II
10/11/05 Bridges
10/11/05 Strategy
10/03/05 Delay
10/02/05 Breath
09/29/05 When a Good Girl Goes Bad
09/28/05 The Rhythm of the Markets
09/27/05 Monte Carlo
09/26/05 RMBS
09/21/05 Where do Ideas Come From?
09/19/05 The Myth of Persistance
09/16/05 Deficits and Bond Rates Study
09/15/05 Cleaning S&P Mini Hotel
09/13/05 Lobagola
09/12/05 Hearing Market Music
09/11/05 Bruce Lee Strategy
09/09/05 Pendente Mercor
09/02/05 Gimme Shelter (Dedicated to the Survivors of Katrina)
08/30/05 Speculators Provide a Valuable Service
08/23/05 Summer Fishing Holes
08/22/05 The Place We All Got Drunk
08/22/05 Fish Finders
08/22/05 Why graphical Analysis is important
08/22/05 Recursive Estimation Procedures for Diagnos
08/16/05 Drowning
08/11/05 Accounting Risk
08/10/05 Gaps
08/10/05 Subway Turnaround
08/09/05 A Philosopher Looks at the Market
08/01/05 Changing Conditions
08/01/05 Trust the Wave
07/12/05 Using Color to Graphically Display Security Information
06/28/05 Wearing two hats
06/23/05 Bob and Weave
06/20/05 Wooden on Leadership
06/18/05 Hard Work
06/18/05 Fatherly Advice
06/09/05 Different Smarts
06/03/05 A Graduation Speech
06/03/05 Escaping Flatland, Part III
05/27/05 Every Tick Tells a Story
05/17/05 The Sciences of Hitting and Trading: What Pitcher Ted Williams Can Teach About the Market
05/16/05 A Trade Fable
05/13/05 Surf's Up
05/11/05 Credibility
05/09/05 Do You Have the Head for Trading
05/06/05 Aesop for Traders
04/30/05 Hedging 101: Jim Sogi Initiates a Discussion of Stops vs. Options
04/30/05 Market of Fools
04/25/05 A Lesson in Strategy
04/12/05 The Slithy Toves of the Market
03/31/05 Do Bears Sleep at Night? An Experiment
03/28/05 Bull and Bear in Aki Jitsu
03/24/05 Regime Change on the Vernal Equinox
03/21/05 A Dog! Panic in a Pagoda
03/20/05 The Way of the Speculator
03/17/05 The Executioner
03/16/05 Bad Gung Fu Movies
03/15/05 The Killer Instinct
03/13/05 Reports of the Credit Markets' Imminent Collapse Greatly Exaggerated
03/01/05 Probability Fields
02/23/05 You Can't Navigate the Market Ocean if You Can't Recognize the Chop of Her Seas
02/18/05 Nullius in Verba
02/16/05 Sunspot Cycles
02/03/05 Do Charts Lie?
02/01/05 Quote of Day on Humility
01/27/05 Common Law
01/27/05 Rip Currents
01/25/05 Gamblers' Fallacies
01/15/05 Crowds
01/11/05 Hero: A Movie Review with Market Insights
01/09/05 Luau
01/03/05 Fishing in Hawaii
12/15/04 Right Questions
12/14/04 Shopping for Holiday Bargains
12/14/04 Keeping Fit in Today's Market
12/09/04 Navigating the Unknown
12/06/04 Philosopher Plays Stock Market
11/30/04 Classic Wipeouts
11/26/04 Yield Curve
11/22/04 The Next Recession
11/22/04 Life Will Find a Way
11/15/04 Pilot Fish
11/15/04 1166
11/10/04 Don't Miss the Big Wave
11/08/04 Navigating Markets
11/08/04 In Honor of James: Stories of Escaping Death....
11/08/04 Quote of the Day--Death
10/28/04 Shifting Gears
10/23/04 Dow Waves
10/11/04 Trade Like a Komodo Dragon
10/06/04 Deficits
10/06/04 Sogi Sr. on YKK, Japan's Fortunes in Iraq
09/24/04 The Structure of Long-Term Interest Rates
09/28/04 The Joys of Surfing
09/28/04 The Moon and Markets
09/22/04 Juked by the Juice
08/05/04 Surfing and Markets, Life and Death
07/29/04 A Musical Round
07/27/04 Negotiating
07/23/04 Rogue Waves
07/14/04 Sports and Markets
07/08/04 Dr Patterson
07/07/04 Ecology
07/02/04 Term Structure of Interest Rates
07/01/04 There Be Dragons
06/23/04 Fishing for a Fill
06/22/04 Unpredictable Ratios
06/09/04 Fighting and Markets
06/04/04 Things I Love About the Market
05/26/04 Kick Boxing and the Market. The former middleweight kickboxing champion of the world taught us a good sparring combination.
05/05/04 Heaven and Hell: The Tale of the Chopsticks
05/04/04 Market Music
04/04/04 Review of Flatland, A Romance of Many Dimensions

James Sogi is a philosopher, Juris Doctor, surfer, trader, investor, musician, black belt, sailor, semi-centenarian. He lives on the mountain in Kona, Hawaii, with his family.