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Jim Rogers

Trading PsychologyBy Chris Tate March 19, 2012

“Most of us don’t have the discipline to stay focused on a single goal for five, ten, or twenty years, giving up everything to bring it off, but that’s what’s necessary to become an Olympic champion, a world class surgeon, or a Kirov ballerina. Even then, of course, it may be all in vain. You…

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The Man Who Broke Atlantic City

Trading PsychologyBy Chris Tate March 16, 2012 5 Comments

Johnson is very good at gambling, mainly because he’s less willing to gamble than most. He does not just walk into a casino and start playing, which is what roughly 99 percent of customers do. This is, in his words, tantamount to “blindly throwing away money.” The rules of the game are set to give…

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Trading ResourcesBy Chris Tate March 16, 2012

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Dodgy Stat Of The Day

Trading ResourcesBy Chris Tate March 16, 2012 1 Comment

For some idiotic reason I wanted to find out the trajectory of funds under management within the superannuation industry. You would think that data that had such national significance would be easy to find….guess again. To get some inkling of the way funds under management had been growing in the past decade I had to…

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I Have Always Been A Fan Of Henry’s

Trading PsychologyBy Chris Tate March 14, 2012

Henry Rollins letter to a young American

Investor Inattention During FIFA World Cup Matches

Trading PsychologyBy Chris Tate March 14, 2012 1 Comment

An odd little paper that someone obviously got a grant for. The Pitch Rather than the Pit: Investor Inattention During FIFA World Cup Matches At the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, many soccer matches were played during stock market trading hours, providing us with a natural experiment to analyze fluctuations in investor attention.…

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Rally Continues

Trading ResourcesBy Chris Tate March 14, 2012

This remains a broad based rally – the interesting thing is the number of pundits who are still denying its existence.

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NASDAQ Then And Now

Trading ResourcesBy Chris Tate March 13, 2012

Interesting little graphic from the WSJ changes in the composition of the index over the past decade.

US Market Relative Performance

Trading ResourcesBy Chris Tate March 9, 2012 2 Comments

I snagged the following three graphs from Google finance. Each chart looks at the relative performance of the Dow (DJI), the NASDAQ (IXIC) and the S&P500 (INX) The point that interested me was that out to six months ago this was a recovery lead by the tech heavy NASDAQ with the Dow and S&P bringing…

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