Chris Tate, Author at Trading Game

Predicting The Next Crash

Get Your Shit Together, Trading PsychologyBy Chris Tate June 18, 2013 1 Comment

As a personal dlsclaimer I should point out that Sornett has been making predictions of crashes for over a decade and I dont believe he has gotten one correct. His last prediction of note was that the S&P500 would crash to 700 points in 2004, if memory serves me correctly that didnt happen. In their…

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Peak HFT

Brokers/Fund ManagersBy Chris Tate June 18, 2013 3 Comments

From Bloomberg – Even as the money has dried up and HFT’s presence has declined, the regulators are arriving in force. In January, Gregg Berman, a Princeton-trained physicist who’s worked at the Securities and Exchange Commission since 2009, was promoted to lead the SEC’s newly created Office of Analytics and Research. His primary task is to…

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Mailbag Time

Get Your Shit TogetherBy Chris Tate June 17, 2013

Every now and again we get an interesting email at blog central. Todays intrepid contributor writes – I have noticed that a daily and weekly ATR are different. Why is this, I find it confusing….

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The New Nikkei Bear Market?

International MarketsBy Chris Tate June 17, 2013 2 Comments

I am always intrigued as to the definitions of when a new bear market begins. Most pundits claim that when a market falls 20% then it is in the grip of the bear. I am not so sure. For example if you held a stock at $10 and it went to $8 would you consider…

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Kodak’s Problem Child

Get Your Shit Together, Trading ResourcesBy Chris Tate June 16, 2013 2 Comments

I have written about Kodak before and its failure to adapt to the disruption caused by its own invention and this piece by Kenny Suleimanagich is a neat little synopsis of how it all went wrong. See also Adapt by Tim Harford.

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Mark Blyth: Austerity – The History of a Dangerous Idea

Economy, Get Your Shit TogetherBy Chris Tate June 16, 2013

I always find it remarkable that so much public policy is generated with at best a modicum of half arsed evidence or at worst no evidence at all. To me austerity seems to fall into the latter camp of no evidence at all. There seems to be very little evidence for the majority of economic…

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Its Friday

Get Your Shit TogetherBy Chris Tate June 14, 2013

The rest of the series can be found here The Ricky Gervais episode from Season One is my favourite.

The Man Who Lost $8 Billion

Banks and FinanceBy Chris Tate June 13, 2013 1 Comment

Employees—down to the secretaries and limo driver—started calculating their bonuses. Because of Hunter’s profits, the firm had earned money to divvy up at the end of the year. The largest bonus by far went to Hunter, with the farm-country boy from Calgary netting a bonus of $113 million. More here – SALON

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We May Have A Replacement

AspirationBy Chris Tate June 11, 2013 8 Comments

Having seriously fallen out of lust with my Italian girlfriend – it looks like it might be time for some Teutonic disciplining. Wonder if I have to get some of those funky shorts?

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