If you look up small, rooted backwaters whose politicians think we are more important than we are in the dictionary, you will find Australia. If you look up a global behemoth with 4000 years of history, you will discover China. I really don’t think people, particularly right-wing politicians, understand the significance of the changes that…
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For decades, the sell-side analyst was a market hero. Their notes could and did move markets, their calls were quoted in the press, and their proximity to CEOs made them seem like gatekeepers of secret knowledge. That age is over. The world has changed with AI-driven data, real-time news flow, and algorithmic markets; the analyst…
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In trading, survival is rarely about predicting the market with flawless foresight. Instead, it often depends on how you frame risk, execute consistently, and allow probability to work in your favour. Two ideas that are frequently confused—but vitally important to distinguish—are precision and accuracy. They sound similar, yet for traders, they represent entirely different skills.…
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Episode Description Join Louise Bedford on Talking Trading as she interviews JC – a chartered accountant who didn’t just balance books but built a 7-figure trading portfolio. After discovering the markets as a teenager, JC faced early hurdles before finding his breakthrough with the Trading Game Mentor Program. Now, he thrives in both trading and…
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There are three types of investors: momentum, valuation and noise. Momentum investors care about trend, valuation investors care about fundamentals and noise investors care about a random assortment of stuff. Many of us are noise investors, even though we wont realise it. Of course, investment approaches do not all neatly fit into such discrete categories.…
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Economists love to tell each other stories about perverse incentives. The “cobra effect” is a favourite. It describes an attempt by the British Raj to rid Delhi of its cobras by paying a bounty for each cobra skin, thus encouraging a thriving cobra-farming industry. The cobra story is probably an urban myth — or a…
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The Holy Grail of trading—the idea that an ideal system exists which delivers consistent results without risk—is a seductive but dangerous illusion. In reality, all trading strategies involve trade-offs between risk, reward, and probability.
In trading, a prevalent cognitive bias known as the arrival fallacy often distorts motivation and impairs ability. Coined by psychologist Tal Ben-Shahar, the arrival fallacy describes the flawed assumption that achieving a specific goal—such as reaching a monetary milestone, becoming a full-time trader, or hitting a percentage return target—will deliver long-term contentment. In reality, the…
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In markets, it’s not just the move—it’s the surprise. Last night, the copper market delivered a textbook case of expectation mismatch. After weeks of pricing in broad-based tariffs on refined copper, the Trump administration announced that semi-finished goods like wires and pipes would face 50% tariffs. Refined copper, scrap, and cathodes were exempted. The Aftermath:…
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