Trust In the Financial Services
2014 Edelman Trust Barometer: Financial Services Industry from Edelman Insights
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The Golden Ratio is Total Nonsense
There is something in this for traders. Whenever, you start to see someone drop magic lines all over their charts you know that one of two things is true. They are struggling in the market and need emotional support or they simply dont know what they are doing. In the world of art, architecture, and design,…
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Can Bankers Behave…..Probably Not…
I have mentioned this study briefly before but this is nice long form piece. This idea—that Wall Street takes in ambitious, hardworking young people and corrupts them—is the premise of a recent study, “Business Culture and Dishonesty in the Banking Industry,” by three economists at the University of Zurich. The researchers recruited 128 employees from…
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Expectation Versus Reality
Trading presents us with a unique paradox in that we have to be confident enough to attempt to undertake it but not so confident that we blow ourselves up. Unfortunately, most new traders fall into the category of how hard could it be. The majority of new traders have what I would call a here…
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Guy Trading at Home Caused the Flash Crash….Well Bugger
Hey look, they caught the guy who caused the flash crash of 2010! His name is Navinder Singh Sarao, and he lives in London and in 2009 he asked someone to help him build a spoofing robot: On or about June 12, 2009, SARAO sent an email to a representative of his FCM in which he explained that…
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Interesting Fact Of The Day
In the week ending 17/04/15 1,680,000 new A-share accounts were opened in China.
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The Long Marriage of Mindfulness and Money
Meditation, like yoga before it, has been fully assimilated into corporate America. Aetna, General Mills, and Goldman Sachs all offer their employees free in-office meditation training. In January, the Times reported on a packed panel at Davos where members of the global élite “professed that meditation gave them a competitive advantage.” Speaking to Bloomberg, a meditation instructor…
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Email Of the Week
It has been sometime since we had an email of the week. So I offer the following without comment. YES HI LOUISEMY name is ………..I am a researcher YES I research gaming also see my sitewww……….. it is different opportunityI just move to …… two months ago I just purchase my…
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What If Sir Isaac Newton Had Been a Trend Follower?
Interesting look at bubbles and the impact of timing upon them. Abstract: Investment manias and financial bubbles have likely existed for as long as humans have been involved in financial markets. In this research piece we take a look at some of the more famous market bubbles in history and the extreme volatility…
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