Chris Tate, Author at Trading Game

The Moral Foundations (Or Lack Thereof) Economic Behaviour

Economy, Trading PsychologyBy Chris Tate January 27, 2012

Interesting little talk from the EconoTalk folks on the moral basis for economic behaviour and its role in prosperity. Someone should forward this to the peanuts on Wall Street. David Rose of the University of Missouri, St. Louis and the author of The Moral Foundation of Economic Behavior talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about…

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Loss Realisation

Trading PsychologyBy Chris Tate January 25, 2012 3 Comments

I have been reading Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow and the going has been slow because I have gotten used to reading books on my tablet and having a large selection available. If I want to read a book I now have to remember to get it off the shelf. Going through this book…

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History Repeating Itself

Trading ResourcesBy Chris Tate January 25, 2012

There has been much talk about how Kodak the inventor of the digital camera and responsible for much of the initial groundwork in that field could get it so friggen wrong that they are now history. The reasons as to why they buggered it up will be the subject of corporate analysts and historians for…

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Sad Bastards….The Graphic

Trading ResourcesBy Chris Tate January 23, 2012

I have written before about the rise of sad bastardry in the modern world and lo and behold some clever clogs has produced this neat little graphic which nicely illustrates the cycle of sad bastardry.

Hedge Fund Returns Again

Trading ResourcesBy Chris Tate January 23, 2012

The Practical Quant has an interesting breakdown of of the the performance of various styles of hedge fund investing. It has this interesting quote – While hedge funds have suffered through terrible years in the past, one gets the sense that investors are waking up to the fact that there just aren’t that many great trading…

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Been For Your Waddle Around The Block This Morning?

Trading ResourcesBy Chris Tate January 20, 2012 2 Comments

Something different for this Friday – Sam Giguere is an NFL wide receiver . This is one of his workout videos.

Hedge Funds….WTF Did They Make?

Trading ResourcesBy Chris Tate January 20, 2012

Recently I came across two contradictory positions that I am trying to reconcile. I was researching the return for hedge funds for 2011 when I came across the RBC Hedge Fund 250 Index. According to the blurb – The RBC Hedge 250 Index is a non-investable benchmark of the performance of the hedge fund industry…

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