Stuff Blowing Up
Watching stuff blow up never gets old……..
Not All That Rosy
Piece from the NYT on how hedge funds are not doing all that well. There is a mythology around hedge funds that they are all seeing, all knowing and always profitable when this is very far from the truth. There are obviously giant profitable funds that are run by sane sensible individuals using robust logical…
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You would naturally think that financial markets were hotbeds of rationalism and hard headedness. That only ideas that actually worked would be taken seriously. If you are of this opinion you are in for nasty shock. Any funds under management you have are being managed by people who believe that the best time to buy…
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Okidoki…..apparently oil is going to $150. So file this Barrons cover away and see how they go
Systems Rather Than News
In trading there are two paths that a trader can follow – one is noise free and somewhat serene. The other is to be surrounded by noise in the belief that this noise somehow brings something to the trading decision. I have just quickly done a google search for the phrase Greek riots and google…
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With my overseas index system generating some buy signals last night I thought it might be worth comparing the health of our market to a random selection of others indices. Key ^AXJO = ASX 200 ^DJI = Dow Jones ^GDAXI = Dax ^N225 = Nikkei ^NDX = Nasdaq 100 As you can see our market…
DetailsDont Let Old People Run Things.
I guess this is what happens when you let someone who is used to old technology run a company that is new technology. Source – Business Insider
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Excellent little video on chronic pain
Really WTF Is The Fuss?
In the past month or so it seemed like hardly a day when by when I dont get an email from some peanut rabitting on about Rare Earth Elements (REE’s) or I notice some shonk predicting the end of the world, so you had better buy XYZ Dodgy Rare Earth Ventures. To make matters worse …
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