Hendrik Bessembinder’s latest paper asks the question – which US stock has generated the highest long-term returns?[i] The answer is Altria Group (formerly known as Philip Morris). Over 98 years the tobacco company produced a cumulative return of 265,000,000.00 percent! Based on this it would be easy to write about how lucrative it can be…
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Adaptation Adaptation is the delicate equilibrium that distinguishes despair from triumph in the realm of trading. In this domain, where uncertainty reigns supreme, achievement demands more than analytical prowess; it necessitates an acknowledgment of the market’s inherent unpredictability. Every trade presents a dual possibility: it may propel a trader forward, redefining their trajectory, or it…
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All forms of trading require decision-making. Sometimes, this decision-making is logical and generates a natural, logical endpoint that anyone can follow. At other times, it is narrative-based and relies upon stories and feelings—neither of which works.
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Trading is a learned profession—no one is born a fully formed trader. Each response and subsequent activity is learned. The difference between a good trader and a habitually poor trader arises in the mechanism of learning and how they interpret the feedback from each of their actions. The matrix below shows the differences in how…
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The Market Is a Mirror: Understanding the Psychological Dynamics of Trading. One of the more well-known books on investing, Blood in the Streets, was written by the Rothschild family. It’s a classic that examines the psychology behind market upheavals. Whenever there’s a sharp decline in the stock market, media outlets often refer to it as…
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I was asked over lunch on Sunday what I thought were the major elements that prevent traders from being profitable – so I dug out this old list. Undercapitalised One of the most significant reasons traders fail in the markets is that they begin with insufficient capital. Many newcomers to trading, often fuelled by overconfidence…
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……..You have to sit in the discomfort for long enough to see what will happen. Too often, we quit before we hit the point where the body and mind adjust. To be clear, it is a balance between knowing what to stick through to see if you’ll adapt and knowing when you are just digging…
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One of the primary motivators of human behavior is avoiding regret. Before the legendary behavioral economists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky formalized prospect theory and loss aversion, they believed that regret avoidance was at the root of the human behaviors they were studying. However, they learned that there are behaviors that regret avoidance could not…
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Just as markets often teach us to trade badly they also drags us towards the most emotionally taxing of all time frames.
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