Chris Tate, Author at Trading Game

Why the news is bad for you

Trading PsychologyBy Chris Tate March 5, 2011 1 Comment

One of the most troubling thing I find about new arrivals to our mentor program is their reliance upon external sources of news and the profound cluttering effect this has upon their thinking. This paper gives 15 reasons why the news is bad for you . Avoid_News_Part1_TEXT In summary they are – News misleads systematically…

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Dow

Trading ResourcesBy Chris Tate March 4, 2011 1 Comment

Snapped before the close – the market does not seem in a hurry to go down.

Oil……….again

Trading ResourcesBy Chris Tate March 3, 2011

Much has been made in the past few days regarding the impact upward movements in the price of oil are having upon the markets. Pundits are throwing around various numbers for possible targets for all. These are little more than educated (being polite here) guesses. However, what is a fact is the current upward trend…

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Do your nuts rise when jiggled?

Trading ResourcesBy Chris Tate March 3, 2011

I love a good Benny Hill moment. This is a make yourself a little smarter post so pay attention blogophytes’ Here is a test for you – get a box of muesli that contains nuts and jiggle it. Surprisingly after vigorous jiggling the heavier nuts have risen to the top and the lighter other bits…

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A lesson in probability

Trading ResourcesBy Chris Tate March 3, 2011

People are by and large very poor statisticians – the notion of clusters is very hard for us to accept.

Wonderful Piss Take

Trading ResourcesBy Chris Tate March 3, 2011

Thomas Friedman is a columnist with a not entirely undeserved reputation for hyperbole, outlandish metaphors and just getting it wrong. This is written in the style of Friedmand writing on the current schism in Egypt.

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Secret life of an Icelandic Flight Attendant

Trading ResourcesBy Chris Tate March 2, 2011

Secret life

Information

Trading ResourcesBy Chris Tate March 2, 2011

–Freeman Dyson, How We Know, March 10, 2011 “In the twentieth century, genomes of humans and other species were laboriously decoded and translated into sequences of letters in computer memories. The decoding and translation became cheaper and faster as time went on, the price decreasing and the speed increasing according to Moore’s Law. The first…

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Handshake

Trading PsychologyBy Chris Tate March 1, 2011

When I was a broker there used to be a saying that my word was my bond – I tended to take this quite seriously since my upbringing had been one that instilled a sense of honour in all tasks. Pity others I worked with didn’t see it the same way but thats life in…

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