If you’ve been around the block, you will likely have seen some eye-rolling use of evidence during meetings. Evidence can be used badly for many reasons; a misunderstanding of what conclusions can be drawn from it, or perhaps it has been cherry-picked to support a particular position.
Don’t you deserve EXCEPTIONAL trading results? Warning: do not dare trade the stockmarket before reading this article! These 3 things are killing your trading results. I see it all the time. Smart people making STUPID mistakes. Mistakes that can cripple their trading accounts, but that are easily avoidable. Just a quick duck and weave so the…
Why talk about stocks you wouldn’t be involved with. Simple if you know what you wont trade it becomes easier to build a model of what you would trade.
This is a little follow-up to my last video about how data is presented to us and how we interpret it. The following chart is yet another one doing the rounds which is supposed to imply something and in turn, cause people to act. What the chart shows is that the S&P Commodity Index relative…
The issue that afflicts many traders is the belief that they should discover something no one else has. It is thought that trading is a treasure hunt where you by dent of your analysis find some corner of value that is yet to be uncovered by the rest of the investing community. You then invest…
If I were to classify trading I would not say it is a financial endevour but rather one that combines the skills of information management and psychology. Markets are awash with data of varying quality and all of this information has an impact upon our decision making but only after the information has passed through…
Last week, Louise interviewed Jackson Millan on the Talking Trading show. He’s known as ‘The Wealth Mentor’, and I have exciting news. He’s presenting on the GoldCoast on Oct 16th. You’re going to want to hear more about this, that’s for sure. Unlock Your Passive Income Potential: Join the Financial Freedom Summit 2024 Are you…
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A vast array of cognitive biases hamstring trader performance a quick look at any list of these afflictions will offer up the following – Confirmation Bias Hindsight Bias Narrative Fallacy (my favourite) Anchoring Bias Loss Aversion Attribution Bias Overconfidence Bias But if I were to isolate one in particular, it would be overconfidence. The interesting…
As traders, we all know the value of having a reliable system in place—something that takes the guesswork out of the equation and sets us up for consistent success. The same is true in sales. If you’re in sales, or have your own business – or even if you want to be more effective networking,…
In his book on the concept of ergodicity, Luca Dellanna writes of his cousin who was a highly talented skier in his youth, but had a potential future in the sport cut short by a succession of injuries.[i] The lesson that Dellanna draws from this is that it is not the fastest skier that wins the…
An ambitious portfolio manager stumbles upon a perfect graph. It outlines eye watering profits. But something doesn’t quite add up – could this graph be accurate? Or does it hide a far more sinister truth?
The chart below from Vanguard has been doing the rounds with people trumpeting that locally listed shares outperform listed property trusts. Based on the data presented, this is true, but some have extended it to mean that locally listed shares outperform all property investments. This is not what the chart says—the chart refers to listed…
I’m seeing it everywhere. People who have worked their entire careers, realising that they’re going to have to KEEP WORKING because the economy has gone to the crapper. Fear, knee-jerk decisions, and missteps. And I’ll tell you why – you’re trying to live on a salary from 2011 when the prices are from 2024! …
The snip below is of last night’s trading in the US along with a headline. As you can see there is a little bit of handwringing going on. The onset of September has caused a variation of the following graph of monthly returns on the S&P500 to appear on various platforms. It shows that contrary…
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