Chris Tate, Author at Trading Game

If You Feel Thankful, Write It Down. It’s Good For Your Health

Trading PsychologyBy Chris Tate December 28, 2018

…..And noting your gratitude seems to pay off: There’s a growing body of research on the benefits of gratitude. Studies have found that giving thanks and counting blessings can help people sleep better, lower stress and improve interpersonal relationships. Earlier this year, a study found that keeping a gratitude journal decreased materialism and bolstered generosity among adolescents. In another study from August, high school…

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Scale

EconomyBy Chris Tate December 28, 2018

1 million seconds is abut 11 days. 1 billion seconds is about 31.5 years. I cannot remember where I heard the example above but it is a wonderful example of peoples inability to understand scale particularly when it involves orders of magnitude change. In part it relates to why people cannot understand why a loss…

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How To Avoid Toxic People

Australian Markets, Trading PsychologyBy Chris Tate December 28, 2018

The DSM-5 says that roughly 15% of people meet the criteria for a personality disorder. And most of them are never diagnosed. Now you’re not a psychiatrist and neither am I, so we shouldn’t run around diagnosing people… But we can learn enough to recognize if someone is a “high-conflict person”, reasonably give a diagnosis of “no good for…

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Boost your trading capital using Airbnb – by Adam Talbot

Charting, Economy, Trading ResourcesBy Chris Tate December 27, 2018 1 Comment

One of the key issues facing new traders is being under capitalised. A small trading portfolio can be detrimental for two reasons. One, brokerage fees will churn your account. Two, you are limited in the way you can position size. So in other words a small capital base puts you at a disadvantage when you…

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Hazard Versus Risk

Australian MarketsBy Chris Tate December 26, 2018

As the year draws to a close on a down note my inbox is full of wonderful end of the year offers promising me that they can save me from the next crash, which is very kind of them. These offers are a mix of divine prediction and the packaging and selling of common tools…

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I Dont Think It Means What You Think It Means

Australian Markets, EconomyBy Chris Tate December 20, 2018 2 Comments

I came across this chart the other day and the message it was trying to convey intrigued me. The chart is from this Vanguard update. I am intrigued because the chart is saying that the market rewards those who hold for the long term – in essence it is talking about a buy and hold…

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Some Things To Read Whilst We Stuff Our Gobs

Australian MarketsBy Chris Tate December 20, 2018

Out-running ‘bad’ diets: beyond weight loss there is clear evidence of the benefits of physical activity Of course there is evidence of the benefits of physical activity but your chances of out running a bad diet are practically zero because to do so you would need to exercise at this intensity for much longer than this…

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Sunspot Cycle and Stock Market Returns

Get Your Shit TogetherBy Chris Tate December 19, 2018

One of the things that is disappointing about technical analysis is its constant default towards superstition and nonsense. This silliness drags the entire profession down and when technicians take umbrage at the way they are viewed they only have themselves to blame. A reader asked whether Charles Nenner, self-described as “the talk of Wall Street since…

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