Fighting Poverty With Actual Evidence
Freakanomics is one of my go to podcasts whilst exercising. This episode looks at how to use evidence based data to help with poverty.
Truly Ordinary
I have to admit that over the past few years I have found the performance of the local market to suck big time. I am somewhat comforted by two things. I am not alone and the internet grants me access to every market in the world. If you want to know how poor the local…
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Bias Series Part Two – Gamblers Fallacy
One of the more interesting things about winter in Australia is the return of the various winter sporting codes. This is interesting because it heralds the return of the uniquely Australian obsession with provincial sports and a breathless sporting coverage that attempts to give the impression that people who kick or chase an inflated piece…
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League Table
I was going to produce a more in depth look at how various markets performed over the past year but in doing so I would merely be replicating data others had already assembled. So I took the easy way out and just snipped theirs. The table below is a familiar one from Finviz and it…
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Why Have I Not Heard More About This Bloke?
I first heard of Professor Terry Speed not through our local media which is obsessed with provincial sport stars and bogans but rather through the BBC podcast More or Less which I consider to be compulsory listening. So doing a bit of digging I came across the following video. If you want a quick…
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Bias Series Part One – Belief Bias
Over the next few weeks I want to start looking at some of the bias’s that make traders stupid and to look at what can be done to overcome these issues. It is important to note at the beginning the problems with your internal language are often not related to intelligence. In fact work by…
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Motivation Monday
This sport is hard enough – I cannot imagine how hard it is to try it one handed.
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BMW Roadsters: 1929-2013
Something for your Sunday morning tea and toast. The early ones are magnificent – the later ones not so much.
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Talking Trading
There is a preview of our first episode on the website. Click the image below.
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