Email Of The Week

As you would expect when you have a blog you get a lot of unsolicited emails from people wanting you to stick something they have written on your blog. Some are vaguely related to trading and some have nothing to do with it like the one below – My name is Elin from crystalopedia.com. We’ve been working hard on…

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Any Guesses?

When I am in need of quickly looking at overnight markets and accompanying price action I use BarChart which is a good little site but like all sites that have a firm technical analysis bent it is prone to making stupid statements. Whilst looking at the site this morning I noticed this bit of inanity.…

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What is Your Investment Edge?

The idea of an investment edge is a simple one. It means that there are some features of an investment behaviour that improves the odds of better outcomes. Although the concept is straightforward, locating edges and creating an environment that fosters them is incredibly challenging. This is primarily due to the difficulty in specifying and…

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Obesity of Politicians and Corruption in Post-Soviet Countries

This is definitely from the well that’s weird file. But there may be something in it as a universal rule. Abstract We collected 299 frontal face images of 2017 cabinet ministers from 15 post-Soviet states (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan). For each image, the…

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