World Collapse Explained in 3 Minutes
One from the vault of Clarke and Dawe who remain probably the best commentators on the financial system going around.
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Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
Around this time of year there is always a bit of chatter regarding a Christmas rally, so instead of relying on myth and hyperbole as most of the financial community do I thought I would fire up excel and have a look. The table below is of the average percentage gain for each month going…
Correlation Matrix
It has been awhile since I did a dodgy correlation matrix of some of our major stocks. These are price correlations only – a correlation above 51% is coded yellow, below 0 is coded grey.
Porsche 911 Carrera 4 GTS
The reviewer keeps comparing it to the GT3 which is a valid comparison if you are going to spend that much money. However, an afternoon in a GT3 will guarantee you a months worth of physiotherapy particularly if you hit a railway crossing at speed.
Hedge Funds Lose Money for Everyone
What could possibly go wrong….. When Douglas Kobak was an adviser at a large brokerage firm, he suggested his wealthiest clients buy a hedge fund promising to be “a very conservative alternative to bonds.” Then the credit crisis hit in 2008, the fund imploded and investors got 45 cents on the dollar — as long…
History Counts
One of the more frustrating things about trading is that in some ways your returns are bounded by the environment within which you are investing. This is particularly true if you are dim enough to be a buy and hold investor. The underlying sentiments of markets ebbs and flows and this sentiment infects all aspects…
And you may ask yourself ….. Well … How did I get here?
And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack And you may find yourself in another part of the world And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife And you may ask yourself Well…How did I get here? Once In A LifeTime…
Would You Rather Upset God, Or Have Him Just Ignore You?
Hugh Hendry is the manager of the boutique fund Eclectica. Whilst we see the world in different ways I find him to be interesting because of his ability to construct a cohesive, articulate narrative and the way he shines a light on the inner workings of a hedge fund.
Yet Another Thing I Wont Be Doing Today
I am intrigued though by the somewhat jarring juxtaposition between the video and the imagery of the outback created by the soundtrack.
The Time When You Learn Things
Trading is easy when it is going well and during these periods of profitability you learn nothing. You learn nothing because you think there is nothing to learn and winning trades just seem to spring into existence with little or no input from you (luck requires no input). The time when you learn things both…
Top 100 Entrepreneur Blogs
Commissioned for the NY Times – apparently we slip in at number 44. Who would have thunk….
Todays WTF Moment
Our program is a professional service to the financial industry; rats are being trained to become superior traders in the financial markets. Using our own methodology in accordance with well-established animal training techniques, our subjects learn to recognize pattens in historical stock and futures data as well as generating trading signals. We provide solutions for…
