Can a Stock-Trader-Turned-Convict Start a New Life?
One day in the middle of 2008, Sakhawat Khan, a Silicon Valley chip engineer, walked into a small house near the back of his two-acre property that his wife, Roomy, a stock trader, used as a home office. Roomy and Sakhawat met when they were electrical-engineering students at Columbia University. After graduating, Sakhawat started inventing,…
Your True Opponent is Yourself
The reality is in competition, we will all compete against somebody who will simply out class us with talent, skill, and athleticism. There is only so much we can do against this external conflict, but the internal aspects of the battles are on us. We can choose to push forward and attack to the best of…
Most Trading Strategies Are not tested Rigorously Enough
Financial research is highly prone to statistical distortion. Academics have the choice of many thousands of stocks, bonds and currencies being traded across dozens of countries, complete with decades’ worth of daily price data. They can backtest thousands of correlations to find a few that appear to offer profitable strategies. The paper points out that…
Unintended Consequences
As a member of Empty Jets I noticed something similar the moment the mining infrastructure boom came to an end. Demand for private flying surged along. General-aviation operations at Midland International Airport jumped almost 10 percent in 2014, according to data reported to U.S. regulators. Now, private aviation’s role as canary-in-a-coal-mine is being watched closely…
Are The People Around You Killing Your Ambition?
Nicole O one of our new mentorees dropped this onto the forum yesterday – it is worth a read since its application is universal irrespective of what change you are trying to make. Are The People Around You Killing Your Ambition? Have you ever shared your desire to transform your life through renovating and been…
Aston Martin Vantage GT3
I have to admit that the interior has improved. When I first looked at them they had an interior that appeared to be straight out of a Ford Modeo shitbox.
The Great Superannuation Exodus
According to the Sydney Morning Herald there has been an exodus of funds from large superannuation funds into self managed funds. The number of people with DIY super funds has grown by more than 30 per cent during the past five years to more than 1 million, collectively worth, in December last year, a whopping $568 billion.…
YTD Performance
I posted the following graphic in the Charts of Interest. However, I feel it deserves a more expanded examination. In the years following the GFC the domestic market has lagged markedly behind other world markets. The shock of the GFC has had a profound impact upon the psyche of investors – that combined with a rampant…
Your Brain Is Primed To Reach False Conclusions
Helena Matute, a psychologist at Deusto University in Bilbao, Spain, and her colleagues enlisted 147 college students to take part in a computer-based task in which they each played a doctor who specializes in a fictitious rare disease and assessed whether new medications could cure it. In phase one of the study, the student volunteers…
