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Essential Lessons from 50 Years of Teaching Traders

Imagine having two world-class mentors with over 50 years of trading experience guiding you through your blind spots. That would be a game-changer, right? Join trading veterans Louise Bedford and Chris Tate from Trading Game for an impactful presentation where you’ll discover the best piece of  advice ever, learn how to ditch a common but…

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Overconfidence

A vast array of cognitive biases hamstring trader performance a quick look at any list of these afflictions will offer up the following – Confirmation Bias Hindsight Bias Narrative Fallacy (my favourite) Anchoring Bias Loss Aversion Attribution Bias Overconfidence Bias But if I were to isolate one in particular, it would be overconfidence. The interesting…

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Investors Must Survive

In his book on the concept of ergodicity, Luca Dellanna writes of his cousin who was a highly talented skier in his youth, but had a potential future in the sport cut short by a succession of injuries.[i] The lesson that Dellanna draws from this is that it is not the fastest skier that wins the…

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The Confidence Trick

An ambitious portfolio manager stumbles upon a perfect graph. It outlines eye watering profits. But something doesn’t quite add up – could this graph be accurate? Or does it hide a far more sinister truth?

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Right Conclusion Wrong Reason

The chart below from Vanguard has been doing the rounds with people trumpeting that locally listed shares outperform listed property trusts. Based on the data presented, this is true, but some have extended it to mean that locally listed shares outperform all property investments. This is not what the chart says—the chart refers to listed…

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How To Quit Worrying About Your Retirement

I’m seeing it everywhere. People who have worked their entire careers, realising that they’re going to have to KEEP WORKING because the economy has gone to the crapper. Fear, knee-jerk decisions, and missteps. And I’ll tell you why – you’re trying to live on a salary from 2011 when the prices are from 2024!  …

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Tell The Entire Story

The snip below is of last night’s trading in the US along with a headline. As you can see there is a little bit of handwringing going on. The onset of September has caused a variation of the following graph of monthly returns on the S&P500 to appear on various platforms. It shows that contrary…

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A Fool And Their Money

For a reason best known only to the divine I continue to get spam from Motley Fool. I shouldn’t complain as the entertainment value it provides is high as is the motivational value. If ever I worry about the competition I open up one of their previous emails and giggle. Feeling refreshed I start the…

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What Does A Healthy Market Look Like?

In my recent Ten Minutes with Tate video that looked at the bed-wetting that accompanied markets moving to new all-time highs, I reflected on the fact that markets always warn you when they are about to fall over and I touched on what a healthy market looks like. In addition to this, I have often…

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Reasons To Trade Number 37

Despite my apparent antipathy towards real estate as an investment, I do have sympathy for those who have invested in property and are now feeling the full effects of the government’s generational failure to address the issues inherent within the current system. You can only play by the rules you were given and property investors…

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Finance Magnates Pacific Summit

Louise and I will be coming to Sydney and you’re all invited. We’re presenting at the Finance Magnates Pacific Summit – Aug 27 – 29. You can book your free ticket here. Together, we’ll be having a fireside chat about: Essential Lessons from 50 Years of Teaching Traders – 12.30pm August 28th Imagine you had two world…

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