Size Does Matter
The German Chancellors’ plane The French President’s plane Iron Maidens plane
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Bitcoin Has Broken Up
Chart says it all.
Good Traders Are Good Entrepreneurs
I like many other much smart people than me have opined at great length and depth about why traders fail. There are of course the usual suspect’s poor psychology, poor money management no system. All of these undoubtedly contribute to the downfall of many traders. However recently I was rereading the book A Man For…
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It Worked Perfectly Yesterday
I have witnessed a disturbing trend in the industry of late: the over-optimisation or curve fitting of trading systems. This practice involves tweaking the parameters of a system to fit the historical data, often resulting in unrealistic and inflated performance metrics. Optimisation is a dangerous and misguided approach that can lead to disastrous outcomes for…
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Bitcoin Is Suddenly Interesting.
Will BTC change the world – probably not but it doesn’t mean that everyones favourite delusion cannot be profitable. At present BTC has done something interesting in breaking up on a weekly chart as shown below. What is also interesting is that on the daily chart, you have a compression box where prices are squeezing…
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Whatever Happened To Groupon?
In August 2010, Forbes called the Chicago-based platform the “fastest growing company ever.” The following year, it IPO’d at a $17.8B market cap. Today? Groupon is worth just $103m — a 99.4% plummet from its IPO. And though it does maintain ~14m active users, it had 83m+ subscribers in 2011, per TechCrunch. More here – theHUSTLE. PS: If Google ever knocks on…
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If You Are An Analyst AI Is Coming For Your Job
Whenever a new piece of technology is introduced into the marketplace, particularly one that is quite disruptive it is always difficult for people to gauge its potential impact on the future. Referring back to 2007 when the iPhone was introduced and it was roundly criticised as a solution in search of a problem, in fact,…
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The Physiology of a 24-Hour Mountain-Bike Race
When people say, “You can’t outrun a bad diet,” I smile and nod. It’s perfectly true, in a holistic sense. Exercise and diet are two different things, with separate effects on your health and performance. You can’t automatically compensate for deficiencies in one area by being extra good at the other, any more than donating…
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