Over the last few weeks, the situation in my hometown of Asheville, North Carolina, and the Western part of the state more broadly, has been hard to describe. On Friday, September 27, Hurricane Helene made landfall and wreaked havoc across the Blue Ridge Mountains. Nearly three weeks later, and justtoday my family got running water…
Something that has always intrigued me is the capacity of the superannuation industry to boast about being below average. The following is a snippet from the AFR. The larger-than-expected reduction in US interest-rates stoked global markets and helped push average returns for equity-heavy superannuation funds to 8.6 per cent in the calendar year to date.…
One of the issues with trading is that the market seems to be on a quest to teach you to trade badly. It amplifies every bit of insecurity and paranoia you may have and in doing so it ramps up your FOMO. The charts below are of London Cocoa taken at different intervals and they…
Traders for decades have tried to use Fibonacci numbers to predict where markets will go. Sadly like most things to do with trading, they are completely unaware of their history.
Let me state at the outset of this article that given the number of rules involved in its successful execution trading is the simplest profession on earth. There are two basic rules in trading. They are if the share is trending up over the time frame you are interested in then you go long whatever…
A key to survival in markets is to surrender any notion of control that you might have. All too often traders think that they are by dent of their participation in a trade somehow in control of the trade. They also sadly think that the more indicators they put onto a chart the more control…
Nassim Taleb, Black Swan author and Universa Investments distinguished scientific advisor, talks about the fragility of markets, how to hedge against geopolitical risks and artificial intelligence. He’s on “Bloomberg Markets.”
Tired of letting your emotions sabotage your trades? At Mind Over Markets, we delve deep into the psychology of trading with leading expert Louise Bedford, a 5x best-selling author. In this episode, we’ll explore the pitfalls of a fixed mindset, marked by avoidance of challenges, quick surrender to obstacles, and a tendency to make tasks…
There is an old saying that goes along the lines of Be careful what you wish for, it might come true. This seems to be especially true when traders have moved from unprofitable to profitable. Traders traditionally wish/hope/pray for a rising equity curve but when they get one all sorts of interesting things begin to…
Traders are often keen to find out which is the strongest market available to them and to do this they often look at comparative capacity to generate effective trades via such as some type of relative strength comparison. However, your results will tell you a lot about how both a given market is performing and…
My market moves this week! In this episode, Chris Tate delves into what the US market hitting new highs means. Also, he examines how two stocks can dramatically impact the trajectory of an index and how this may affect any decision you might make. He also looks at how difficult it is to trade geopolitical…
In this video, Daniel Yegin explains the history of the 20th century in terms of oil.
What will the Fed do next? How will conflict in the Middle East impact oil? What does a bout of stimulus mean for the Chinese Equity market? Is the US economy heading into a recession or reflation? Investors are trapped in a vortex of noise. More here – Behavioural Investment
Luck in Trading Isn’t Just Luck—It’s All About Detail Detection! 💡 In my Conversations with Leaders series, with Josh Gilbert I dive into the psychology of successful investing and uncover why what we often term“luck” isn’t luck at all. It’s about having the mental agility to spot tiny nuances others miss. When you sharpen your…
Our view of the world and all of our interactions with it are shaped by our perceptual filters. These filters are a function of our internal biases. Humans are a bias engine and the study of the nature of our biases has been a fertile field of study for psychologists. It has even been posited…
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