It is so tempting to get lost in the noise and intrigue of financial markets that we can easily forget what type of investor we are. Although the investing community can at times appear something of an amorphous blob attached to the latest in-vogue topic; groups of participants are engaged in wildly different activities that…
Naturally, traders look to the internet for guidance its ubiquitous presence means that this is inevitable. Unfortunately, the trading-related videos you see on the internet are often a very unsuitable role model for traders because the lifestyle they purport to show is a work of fiction.
For the first time in a long time, the local market has managed to make a new all-time high. This of course has set hearts racing in the investing community. However, as always the picture is always a little bit more complex than people are led to believe.
“If you don’t rule your mind, your mind will rule you,” More – Outside
How do you tell that people don’t know anything about running their business? It’s easy at the first sign of difficulty they put their hand out and ask the government for assistance. That is the current situation with domestic lithium and nickel producers according to this headline. Australian lithium and nickel miners to ask for…
Investor incompetence might play a larger role in poor results than you think. That’s thanks to a phenomenon called the Dunning-Kruger Effect. To explain, Barry welcomes David Dunning to the podcast. Dunning is a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan.
Your brain and subsequent behaviours and feelings are a function of the information you feed it. The adage of garbage in and garbage out applies equally to your internal software as it does to any computer coding.
Trading can be a confusing affair due to the amount of information that traders and investors have to wade through before generating any strategy. The good thing is that most of this information is irrelevant. The chart below is a variation on a chart that popped up briefly on my media feed. It shows the…
This article is apparently from Motley Fool and it relates to the collapse in the value of Zoom First things first I probably wouldn’t be taking advice from someone whose fund is down 70% and who has a habit of averaging down. The second thing is that just because a stock has gone down 87%…
Want to know how to drop $195B in a year? Then follow the advice of the peanuts who decided it would be a genius move to short-sell the most dynamic stocks of 2023. Short selling is a useful tool for traders but it has some fundamental limitations. The most glaring of these is that it…
In the final episode of 2023, Louise Bedford sits down with Chris Tate for a captivating year-in-review. From the standout market movers to the best and worst moves, they dissect the triumphs and tribulations of the financial world. Chris shares insights into where the money was made, the surprises that shook the markets, and the…
If there were awards given out for the most remarkable growth in a market segment it would undoubtedly go to ETFs which have swamped the investing arena. ETFs come in all sizes and flavours and the majority of them are dogs.
One of the more intractable trader behaviours is the inability to let go of something that was once a good idea and which no longer is. I have spoken before about the desire of traders to cling to legacy trends in the vain hope that the glory days for a particular instrument will return. In…
Unfortunately, when it comes to understanding random phenomena, our intuition often lets us down. Take a look at the image below. Before you read the caption, see if you can pick out the data set generated using truly uniform random numbers for the coordinates of the dots (i.e., for each point, independent of the others,…
This list is taken from the following article – Seven considerations before selling shares 1. You have achieved your investment goals 2. The investment case has changed 3. It’s time to rebalance 4. You have made a mistake 5. Be alert. Is it your emotions selling? 6. Consider taxes and costs 7. Enjoy the journey…
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