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Meet the Most Indebted Man in the World

The Atlantic – He can earn million-dollar gains without anybody knowing. He can execute make-believe trades by sending fake emails from hacked computers. He doesn’t always lose money. But when he does, he loses more than $6 billion. He is …the most indebted man in the world. Jérôme Kerviel is learning one of life’s harsher…

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All Men Lead Lives Of Quiet Desperation

Sunday saw the mid point of our current Mentor Program – at this gathering I get up and drone on about my philosophy of the trading world. One of the points I try to get across is the notion that activity does not equal profitability and that intriguingly the main motivation for trading for a…

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How Do You Go From $1.8Billion In The Bank To SFA?

Bloomberg.…How do you sell the technology company you founded for $1.8 billion and five years later file for personal bankruptcy? For Halsey Minor, it may have been a fascination with houses, hotels, horses and art. Minor, 47, who sold CNET Networks Inc. (3549162Q) to CBS Corp. (CBS) in 2008, says he owes as much as $100 million…

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Stop It

Tomorrow I begin my section of the mentor program and i thought it would be valuable to post up the best trading psychology video I have come across. This will serve the new mentorees well in their dealings with me and will change the course of their trading and their lives dramatically.

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YTD Returns

Recently, I have seen some YTD returns and thought I would collate some of the more interesting ones into a dodgy table. The stand out performer is undoubtedly the Nikkei. Its amazing what you can do to an index when you attempt to do at least something to address inter generational economic problems. From my…

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Money Cant Buy Happiness….Ya Reckon

Over the years there has developed a belief that people in more developed and richer countries were no happier than their counterparts in poorer less developed countries. Turns out this is not true, it seems that the old adage that you can never be too rich, too good looking or too smart has a ring…

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This Is Water

This is a piece by David Foster Wallace. I believe that it is part of a commencement address he gave to Kenyon College a small US college. Someone took his address and turned it into this interesting little short film.

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Alien Invasion And Your Retirement

Apparently, this was a topic for discussion among for attendees at a symposium on the sustainability of retirement in the US. I kid thee not…. At a recent University of Pennsylvania symposium on the future of the retirement system, Hodgson raised just that possibility — the risk of a malevolent alien invasion. (Imagine the Capitol-zapping invaders…

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