Why Trends Occur
This is the best explanation of why trends occur and persist that I have seen.
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A Dozen Things You can Learn by Reading “The Success Equation”
1. “There’s a quick and easy way to test whether an activity involves skill: ask whether you can lose on purpose. In games of skill, it’s clear that you can lose intentionally, but when playing roulette or the lottery you can’t lose on purpose.” 2. “Much of what we experience in life results from a…
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Wonder What I am Being Told Here?
One of the mechanisms by which I have learnt to deal with the vicissitudes of the market is to believe that they are actually very generous and that they will tell me everything I need to know if I just listen. When I have gone back and reviewed errors in judgement I have made as…
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The Red Bull Illume Photo Contest Winners
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Practice Does Not Make Perfect
Zach Hambrick has always been fascinated by exceptional performance, or what he calls “the extremes of human capabilities.” Growing up, he’d devour Guinness World Records, noting the feats it described and picturing himself proudly posing in its pages. By the time he reached college, though, he’d moved on to a new obsession: becoming a golf pro.…
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BIS Triennial Central Bank Survey
I have finally had time to sit down and read this latest missive from BIS. The FX market does seem to be undergoing a little bit of a shift as evidenced by the fall in volumes, the changing role for some currencies and the rise of the renminbi. There are a few interesting take home…
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Dreamers
I am of the belief that the best trips you can have are those that make you think and reflect upon your own situation and the situation of others. For those who are self aware travel is the consummate – it forces you to think and reconsider things you believe in. Since returning from LA…
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The Great Hedge Fund Massacre
In the third quarter of 2015, hedge funds, as a category, were experiencing their worst quarter of flows since the bottom of the financial crisis six years before. There were an avalanche of stories about the industry’s nearly systematic underperformance. It looked and felt like an inflection point. At the time, I asked aloud whether…
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