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It Pays To Be Selective

Even in the strongest bull markets, it pays to be selective. The chart below shows g0ld—it is clearly doing well. In the good old days, buying anything that had even the vaguest connection to the sector would have been sufficient. However, things have changed. To illustrate this I ran a simple scan over my custom…

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The Untold Side of the Turtle Trading Legacy

In his first podcast episode ever, Bill Eckhardt emphasizes that successful trading hinges more on risk control than on predicting market movements, a theme that resonates throughout his conversation with Moritz Siebert and Rob Sorrentino. The episode explores Eckhardt’s journey from the renowned Turtle trading experiment to his current systematic trading strategies at Eckhardt Trading…

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Write Your Own Job Description

One of the most appealing things about trading is the ability to write your own job description. ou determine the how and why of your trading business – not someone else. But you have to work out what your truth is for your own survival.

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6 Steps to Stay Sane in an Insane World

The world is crazy, but then again, it always has been. Perhaps we feel it more acutely in our current era because we are so connected to everyone and everything, and because so many of the “digital town squares” that promised to bring us together and uplift us have sunken to the lowest common denominator…

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Do Groups Make Good Decisions?

I recently came across a statement made by Warren Buffett in a 1965 letter to his Partnership where he mentioned group decision making: “My perhaps jaundiced view is that it is close to impossible for outstanding management to come from a group of any size with all parties really participating in decisions.” This made me…

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Finding Resilience in the Thick of Disorder

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…

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Nothing To Boast About

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.…

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Why We Wait

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…

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