Beyond The Obvious Interview
Recently I chatted with David Hobart who is a former prop trader turned high-performance coach to professionals around the world. Click on the player image below to be taken to the interview.
Recently I chatted with David Hobart who is a former prop trader turned high-performance coach to professionals around the world. Click on the player image below to be taken to the interview.
The number one problem I currently hear from portfolio managers, team members, and traders in financial markets is “burnout”. That’s not surprising, given the list of challenges from 2020: Keeping up with markets that have changed trends multiple times within the year; Maintaining perspective amidst uncertainties regarding COVID-19 and implications for health and safety; Working…
DetailsItalian psychologist Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini was once asked why people keep making the same mistakes. He said: Inattention, distraction, lack of interest, poor preparation, genuine stupidity, timidity, braggadocio, emotional imbalance, ideological, racial, social or chauvinistic prejudices, and aggressive or prevaricatory instincts. More here – Collaborative Fund
DetailsFor most fund managers there is nothing more important than adopting a long-term approach. This enables them to insulate themselves from the noise and random fluctuations of financial markets, and hopefully exploit them. Yet for many this is simply not possible. Perverse and misaligned incentives, the desire to measure everything over meaningless time periods and…
DetailsRecently I had a chance to catch up with Jack Pelzer and Dan Hodgman of Limit Up where we talked about all things trading psychology. You can find additional episodes of their podcast here. It was actually wonderfully refreshing to sit down and talk to two younger traders who were not obsessed with the prospect…
DetailsTrading is a difficult profession – its difficulty comes not so much from mastering the technical aspects since these are always overstated by the magic indicator fools but rather in coming to terms with the psychological and emotional difficulties that arise. In part, these difficulties arise because of perceptions as to how easy trading is…
DetailsThere are many worthwhile candidates on Wall Street for the Greatest Trade of All Time. There’s Jesse Livermore’s bet that the stock market would fall in 1929. He pocketed something like $100 million in profit, akin to $1.5 billion today. There is George Soros’ 1992 bet that the British pound would fall against a basket…
DetailsHere are a few highlights from our conversation: I think of philanthropy as something that is not genetic, it is learned, and it was something that my dad reinforced pretty much from the time I was a kid. I’ve always had this view that success is not a straight line up. If you read the stories of…
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