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The Iron – Henry Rollins

I believe that the definition of definition is reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. Completely. When I was young I had no sense of myself. All I was, was a product of all the fear and humiliation I suffered. Fear of my parents. The humiliation…

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We Have A Winner

For the most outstandingly stupid piece of investment advice you will hear. My only disappointment is that this advice came out on 30/12/12. So we have to struggle through all of 2013 before we hear something equally as stupid for this year. Well life is tough but no doubt the financial media will surprise us…

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2012 Returns

I have generated a table of the yearly returns for most markets. We look a bit ordinary at +15% Country YTD Chg Venezuela 227.61% Turkey 53.28% Egypt 49.56% Pakistan 49.31% Nigeria 43.38% Estonia 38.22% Thailand 35.80% Philippines 32.95% Greece 32.47% Germany 29.06% Kenya 28.62% Poland 26.24% India 25.82% New Zealand 24.47% Denmark 24.20% South Africa…

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Performance

I snipped this on the last trading day of the year as part of a year in review video I am doing. The chart compares the relative performance of the following. All Ords (^AORD) Dow (^DJI) Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) Nikkei (^N225) Hang Seng (^HSI) Dax (^GDAXI) Its important to note that these are relative performances…

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Well This Just Sucks….

Previously I had talked about a long trade on the Dow I was running – nothing new there and the rationale and management of the trade was hardly revolutionary. However, I did something profoundly f#%^en stupid – I transposed a digit on my stop and got pinged out by a spike because my stop was…

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