Simple Heresy

Piece from Science Week about how very simple decision making processes are trumping very complex financial machinations. My favourite part – Given a portfolio of the same 50 stocks, an investor would need to wait 500 years before Markowitz’s Nobel-winning formula yielded superior returns to 1/N, the researchers estimated.    

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Millionaire Households

If you were asked to generate a list of which countries had the most millionaires as a percentage of their population would you have come up with this list. Proportion of millionaire household by market 1. Singapore         15.5% 2. Switzerland        9.9% 3. Qatar                    8.9% 4. Hong…

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Being Ordinary Pays…..Really Well

Someone dropped this article into my inbox and makes mildly interesting reading for a fluff piece. However, two points stood out. Mr. Sass’s style has produced an annualized gain of 7.2 percent, after fees, over the past decade versus a 5.3 percent annualized return for an index of value stocks tracked by Chicago research firm…

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Too Stupid To Trade?

I used to think that there was no such thing as being too stupid to trade since trading is not really an intellectual endeavour. All it requires is a sound method and a robust psyche to keep plugging away with your method. Developing a sound trading system is not really that hard, if you can…

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Too Stupid To Trade?

I used to think that there was no such thing as being too stupid to trade since trading is not really an intellectual endeavour. All it requires is a sound method and a robust psyche to keep plugging away with your method. Developing a sound trading system is not really that hard, if you can…

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Quote Of The Day

“For me, trading is all about mastery:  the mastery of markets’ complexities and the myriad challenges of self-mastery. “Brett Steenbarger, I quite like Steenbargers work – a copy of his Enhancing Trader Performance: Proven Strategies From the Cutting Edge of Trading Psychology sits in my bookshelf. However, I have to take issue with this quote…

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