How to Tame Your Emotions When Investing
I was going though my Evernotes file and came across this panel discussion and thought it was too good not to repost. Click here to be taken through to the WSJ.
But Its Got My Stuff in It
I have a neighbour who is on his third real estate agent in under a year. The two previous agents had failed to sell his property at a price he was happy with. Interestingly, the two previous failed attempts saw the property pass in at the same price. Added to this this three other properties…
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The Fate Of Empires
I got bounced this link which is to a grandiosely titled video called Science Saves the Future – which I duly watched with my tea and toast. Save yourself the trouble of wasting your time since it is a loosely cobbled together snippets from “experts” I had never heard of. I think the basic message…
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Why Do We Sleep?
What is often lost on people is that trading is a high performance endevour. To do it properly you need to be on your game both mentally and physically. The infiltration of technology into our lives and the ability to now trade any market in the world 24 hours a day has meant that many…
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Frustration And Fluidity
This is a repost from a comment I made recently on the Mentor Program Alumni forum. I think as traders/investors we are all guilty of getting too close to the problem; the end result of this is that we cant actually see a solution and we keep doing the same thing over and over. I…
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Love A Good Prediction
I love predictions.
Is The Market Overvalued?
This is a question that tends to get posed at boardrooms and dinner parties any time the market has had an extended run. Whenever, someone poses this question to me, my immediate and somewhat flippant answer is don’t know and don’t care. My response is based upon the notion that I feel it is the…
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How Our Minds Mislead Us: The Marvels and Flaws of Our Intuition
Excellent little piece on how our brain tricks us repeatedly. If you want to characterize how something is done, then one of the most powerful ways of characterizing how the mind does anything is by looking at the errors that the mind produces while it’s doing it because the errors tell you what it is…
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