Motivation Monday
73 and still motoring….they make Russians tough…. Click the image to be taken to the video.
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Take A Letter Maria
Its mail time – that time when I look at one of the many emails that hits the inbox. One of the challenges I find in trading is how to take only the best setups. A particular setup might tick all the boxes but there is something different about it and you don’t feel 100%…
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The Fully Expressed Life
By “bliss” he meant that each person has skills and talents that collectively move us toward authentic self-expression. Bliss is our natural direction; it inspires the highest caliber of creativity and performance. Some people know the first time they put pen to page that they were born to write. Others feel most at home with law or…
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Your genes affect your betting behavior
Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, National University of Singapore and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) have shown that betting decisions in a simple competitive game are influenced by the specific variants of dopamine-regulating genes in a person’s brain. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter – a chemical released by brain cells to signal other brain…
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How To Cut A Cake Scientifically
Sir Francis Galton the creator of the concept of statistical correlation and the idea of regression to the mean also once wrote a paper on how to cut a cake scientifically. It turns out everyone has been doing it wrong – which is actually no surprise. Galtons original paper can be found here
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Stopping Financial Avalanches By Random Trading
A central tenet in modern economics is that crashes do not happen; we all know that they do . Therefore, the maxim should be restated as crashes are not supposed to happen according to the models we have. In fact modern economic theory be it the Efficient market Hypothesis or the Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium are…
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