How I feel About Trading Some Days
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The Psychology and Neuroscience of Financial Decision Making
The Psychology and Neuroscience of Financial Decision Making from Trading Game Pty Ltd
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What A Difference A Day Makes
I was going to post the chart below as candidate for the most boring chart of the year alongside the USD/CHF but a wee bit can happen in 24 hours. The S&P 500 has had no net effective gain since 06/2015 which does make it a long time between drinks for long equity traders. When I…
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The Complicated Science Of Risk
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Venezuelans Give Up on Counting Piles of Cash and Start Weighing Them
I did not know this, although there are historical precedents such as Germany in the 1920’s. At a delicatessen counter in eastern Caracas, Humberto Gonzalez removes slices of salty white cheese from his scale and replaces them with a stack of bolivar notes handed over by his customer. The currency is so devalued and each…
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Its Good To Be Number One
Whilst I was recently in Toronto I noted that there was a degree of hand wringing about the current state of the property market in Canada and the resultant increase in household debt that had accompanied this. Curious about where we stood I looked up the league table of household debt as a function of…
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Starting Dates
When I was banging on about EFT’s last week I made the point in passing that when you are looking at trading systems that the start date is everything and it is the point at which most of the fudging of results occurs. As an example I took a hypothetical passive system and began to…
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The Biggest Game In Town
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