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Egypts 2000 years of growth compared to China.
Jesse Livermores Seven Trading Rules
Within the mentor program Reminiscences of a Stock Operator is compulsory reading. I have the newer annotated version on my desk where it lives. One fot he things that reading older books a bout trading highlights is that there is nothing new under the sun. I know everyone likes to think they have discovered something…
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The notion of a fraud as large as that perpetrated by Bernie Madoff intrigues me and offers a lesson for traders. Madoffs great sales hook was that his form offer very high returns – there is nothing unusual about this but what was unusual about Madoff is that he made this offer with a…
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About two years ago LB and I received an email from someone who had read our books. In this letter the trading describes how after reading our books he had turned $100,000 into $11,000,000 – I stopped reading at this point and wandered off thinking off course you had, you read my book. All would…
DetailsAnd knowing this helps how?
I have attached a chart below that I grabbed off the web from a finance site. This chart comes courtesy of The Chart Store and it combines two of my least favourite implied TA concepts – the notion of overbought/oversold and the prediction that this implies. I agree that crowds fatigue, this is simply a…
DetailsMexican Wrestling
I probably could have generated any number of reasons as to why I would post this. Its a metaphor for trading, small players always get hurt, expect the unexpected blah blah blah. But the reason is its Monday and Mexican wrestling has a wonderful demented quality so why not –
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future
So said Niels Bohr yet despite this folks are always sticking their necks out – inevitably to be proven wrong. The latest round of predictions come in the wake of recent events in Eqypt and concern what might happen to oil. Given oils significance within the industrialised world it is no surprise that pundits all…
DetailsWhats the fuss?
I have to admit I have always been a little confused by the somewhat myopic view that traders take towards commodities. I remember when I was a broker if gold showed the slightest sign of moving everyone in the dealing room go all a quiver and rush off for a cold shower. This interesting thing…
DetailsNot going down with the ship.
Interesting research post the GFC from Sanjai Bhagat and Brian Bouton (http://leeds-faculty.colorado.edu/bhagat/BankComp-Capital-Jan2011.pdf) This research uncovered the following little gem – “The key finding is that chief executives were “30 times more likely to be involved in a sell trade compared with an open-market buy trade” of their own bank’s stock and “the dollar value of…
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