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QOTD

I was preparing a piece for the Australian Investors Association when I came across this quote. The story telling mind is allergic to uncertainty, randomness, and coincidence. It is addicted to meaning. If the storytelling mind cannot find meaningful patterns in the world, it will try to impose them. In short, the storytelling mind is…

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Forget the Flu: Entrepreneurship May Be Viral

Whilst away for a strategy meeting last week part of the conversation drifted to the notion of working for yourself as a lifestyle choice. A subset of that discussion was simply why the f#%k would you willingly work for someone else. We all tried to work out the premium  that would be required for us…

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Beating The Market Has Become Nearly Impossible

Interesting long article about the demise of alpha – that is a positive return over and above what the market can intrinsically produce. I would probably add that there has never been a situation in history where money managers have en masse produced alpha, so the situation being described is not new. Fund managers have…

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Why It’s Impossible To Just Eat Less

This is a fascinating article in that you can take out the references to food and eating less and substitute the expression – why is is impossible to follow a trading plan. Long-term multicomponent weight management interventions were generally shown to promote weight loss in overweight or obese adults. Weight changes were small however and…

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VIX

As the chook shed fire that was the us governments shut down unfolded the press was full of words such as calamity and disaster without actually understanding what those words meant within the context of the shutdown. Many (read most) commentators missed the fact that the US was not Greece, Ireland, Spain, Portugal or Italy…

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Random Thoughts

Why We Dont Count Open Equity In one of my recent videos I mentioned the problem of counting open equity as yours. When you deal in CFD’s the dealing system has a a nasty habit of showing your total profit/loss on your current trades. I have dropped in what this looks like from my current…

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