Cocktail Party Indicator
“If the professional economists can’t predict economies and professional forecasters can’t predict markets, then what chance does the amateur investor have? You know the answer already, which brings me to my own ‘cocktail party’ theory of market forecasting, developed over the years of standing in the middle of living rooms, near punch bowls, listing to…
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“If the professional economists can’t predict economies and professional forecasters can’t predict markets, then what chance does the amateur investor have? You know the answer already, which brings me to my own ‘cocktail party’ theory of market forecasting, developed over the years of standing in the middle of living rooms, near punch bowls, listing to…
DetailsBecause its Monday
Once upon a time the Korean martial of Tae Kwon Do was my chosen activity – it is an activity I first took up when I was 12 and stayed with for a decade. So it is no wonder I found this video somewhat endearing – Little blokes going at it Unfortunately, it encapsulates the…
DetailsGetting Frustrated You’re Not Hitting Your Goals? – with my mate Pete Godfrey
Frustrating isn’t it? You’ve got all the books on goal setting. Your CD library is weighted down with motivational recordings… and you get yourself down to all those mindset seminars and suck in the information like some out of control vacuum cleaner on steroids. You’re on cloud nine for a few days… anything seems possible…
DetailsIt’s only cheating if you get caught.
Cheating as a concept has long fascinated me, as has the general notion of what could be called delusional behaviour within humans. The interesting thing about cheating is that it seems to have moved from being an individually directed activity to a group activity. The activity of the group not only encourages the cheater but…
DetailsIts not the economy stupid….its price
I am regularly send odds and sods by various peanuts (usually economists) telling me what the market should and shouldn’t be doing. Unfortunately, they are making a fundamental flaw – the stockmarket is not the economy. The stockmarket is a pricing mechanism based upon the aspirations and perceptions of populations and these populations are not…
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