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Women Make Better Decisions Than Men

History and Science, Trading PsychologyBy Chris Tate March 27, 2013

Mar. 25, 2013 — Women’s abilities to make fair decisions when competing interests are at stake make them better corporate leaders, researchers have found. A survey of more than 600 board directors showed that women are more likely to consider the rights of others and to take a cooperative approach to decision-making. This approach translates…

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Passive Investing: The Evidence the Fund Management Industry Would Prefer You Not to See

Brokers/Fund Managers, Economy, Get Your Shit Together, Trading PsychologyBy Chris Tate March 26, 2013 2 Comments

This is quite an interesting video from a group known as Sensibleinvesting.tv. I do agree with its overall thrust – fund managers of all ilks do a rubbish job for the extraordinary amount of money they rip off investors. They do such an ordinary job because they cling to ideas that simply no longer have…

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Why the Rich Don’t Give to Charity

Trading PsychologyBy Chris Tate March 23, 2013

The Atlantic……It is not. One of the most surprising, and perhaps confounding, facts of charity in America is that the people who can least afford to give are the ones who donate the greatest percentage of their income. In 2011, the wealthiest Americans—those with earnings in the top 20 percent—contributed on average 1.3 percent of their income…

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I originally posted this in the Foundation section of the Mentor Program but I thought it was too good to leave there. One of the key psychological and emotional roadblocks that new traders have to get over is that the number of winning trades you have does not matter. What matters is how much on…

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Price….

Brokers/Fund Managers, Get Your Shit Together, Trading PsychologyBy Chris Tate March 15, 2013

I am somehow subscribed to the ASX’s Investor Update. In the latest edition I came across the following article – Ten Questions When Picking Junior Miners I have striped out the ten questions. 1. What commodities are being explored for? 2. Where are the projects? 3. Are the projects of significant scale? 4. Is there…

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Is There Life After Work?

Aspiration, Trading PsychologyBy Chris Tate March 15, 2013

New York Times…..At an office party in 2005, one of my colleagues asked my then husband what I did on weekends. She knew me as someone with great intensity and energy. “Does she kayak, go rock climbing and then run a half marathon?” she joked. No, he answered simply, “she sleeps.” And that was true.…

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Nanny State

Aspiration, Get Your Shit Together, Trading PsychologyBy Chris Tate March 15, 2013 1 Comment

This is a paradox, at once completely unrelated to trading but also totally related if you understand the psychology of what is happening here. This ad was recently banned in Australia as being too adult. As if it were ever possible to be too adult. The central issue here is simply one of having others…

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