The Music Explosion Of 1978
A bit of Sunday nostalgia for all the old farts. The only point I would make is my belief that Boston are the only band whose debut album was effectively their greatest hits album
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Why Your Strategy Isn’t the Problem: 5 Brutal Truths
1. The Professional Disconnect: Why Intelligence is No Shield There is a profound paradox in trading: why do highly intelligent, disciplined professionals from other fields consistently fail in the trading arena? This is not merely an anecdotal observation; it is a sad fact of life for the majority of people who enter the market with…
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Eight Principles for Building a Professional Trader
Mastery in trading is often portrayed as the result of finding the single no loss strategy, predicting the next market move or discovering a hidden technical edge. In reality, the traders who achieve exceptional long-term results tend to share something far less glamorous but far more powerful. They develop habits, routines and ways of thinking…
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Dog Stocks – Great Entries
Last week, I wrote this piece – Great Stocks, Bad Entries. The idea was to look at whether delayed entry timing had a material effect on returns. I found that entering 40 trading days after the original breakout still produced strong 12-month returns. The conclusion was nuanced yet clear: the quality of the stock dominated that of…
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Utter Gibberish
One of the mantras I run in my head is a simple question – have I added value somewhere today?” It doesn’t have to be anything earth shattering. Even small gestures count. When I commit something to public view, I try as much as possible to make it a positive contribution – unfortunately, at times…
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Why Doing Less is the Secret to Making More
The Anatomy of a Blown Account How does a trading account actually blow up? The obvious answer is that it loses money, but the nuance is in the process of that erosion. It is rarely a single catastrophic “black swan” event that destroys a trader. Instead, it is a steady, relentless “belting” of the equity…
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Great Stocks, Bad Entries
Technical analysis has long treated entry precision as sacred. Traders spend careers searching for the perfect breakout, the ideal pullback, the exact moment of volatility contraction. But what if the entire premise is wrong — and traders have been optimising the wrong variable all along? The Core Assumption It has always been assumed that a…
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Belief Is A Trader’s Highest ROI Asset
If there were a primary mechanical task that traders undertake to be profitable, it would be seeking an edge. They study indicators, optimise position sizing, experiment with entries, and spend endless hours refining their systems. Yet one of the most powerful upgrades costs nothing. It is a belief. We are not talking about mindless motivational…
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What Can The Great Crash of 1929 Tell Us About Today?
The Great Crash of 1929 has faded into history, but financial journalist and author Andrew Ross Sorkin argues it holds vital lessons for today. Andrew came into the studio in London to discuss what we can understand about the crash in numbers, from ticker-tape running hours behind plunging stock prices to crucial metrics that sound…
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