Love A Good Prediction
I love predictions.
Trend Following Explained In An Image
When trend following goes well it goes well, right up until the time it doesn’t….
Mail Bag
It is always interesting when your email is publicly available – this means that sometimes the public writes to you and today was no exception. My winner for email of the week is the chap who wrote to me today and see he was suspicious of financial markets because his broker was spying on him…
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Yes….People Are Morons
This table is a truncated list of answers to poll questions posed to Americans. If you have ever wondered whether we are screwed as a species, there’s your answer. The full list of questions and responses can be found here.
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A NIghtmare On Wall Street – Beware the Autoplay
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QOTD
I was preparing a piece for the Australian Investors Association when I came across this quote. The story telling mind is allergic to uncertainty, randomness, and coincidence. It is addicted to meaning. If the storytelling mind cannot find meaningful patterns in the world, it will try to impose them. In short, the storytelling mind is…
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Beating The Market Has Become Nearly Impossible
Interesting long article about the demise of alpha – that is a positive return over and above what the market can intrinsically produce. I would probably add that there has never been a situation in history where money managers have en masse produced alpha, so the situation being described is not new. Fund managers have…
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