SAC Capital
Interview with Steve Cohen of SAC Capital. Since inception in 1992 SAC has only had one down year and averages 27.1% return.
Madoff Interview
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…
DetailsJesse 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…
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…
DetailsWhat is your pain threshold?
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…
DetailsWhat makes Louise angry… very angry…
Last month, I was interviewed by Dr Lorwai Tan on the radio, and it ended up being one of the most revealing, in depth interviews ever. Lorwai dragged information out of me that I’d never previously disclosed before. Luckily, we’ve got a recording of the whole interview just for you. Just when you thought I…
DetailsPrediction 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…
DetailsWhat makes Louise angry… very angry…
Last month, I was interviewed by Dr Lorwai Tan on the radio, and it ended up being one of the most revealing, in depth interviews ever. Lorwai dragged information out of me that I’d never previously disclosed before. Luckily, we’ve got a recording of the whole interview just for you. Just when you thought I…
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