I have a leaking pipe on my nature strip and it has been leaking for ages. I reported the problem to Yarra Valley water six months ago and they sent out a bloke who in a somewhat disinterested manner stuck a wooden stake into the ground with a little flag on it. When asked what…
DetailsThere has been some chatter on our mentor forum about CFDs – as such I thought it worthwhile to reproduce an article I wrote for the Trading Game Newsletter following the collapse of Sonray last year. Over the past few weeks much of the chatter from brokers and others on the supply side of…
DetailsIt is this sort of thing that gives people who use price as a determinant a bad name. I grabbed this review from the comments section – couldnt agree more. A perfect example of a technical analyst disappearing so far up his own fundament he can’t see the light through his sphincter
DetailsRECENTLY I WORKED as an internist-intensivist at the Canadian Combat Surgical Hospital in Kandahar. Most of our casualties were Afghans: National Army soldiers, National Police and civilians caught in crossfire. They were diminutive men, almost always less than a hundred and forty pounds. I cannot comment on the body masses of the Taliban—they were never…
DetailsTraders are often surprised at how close trading is to games of skill such as poker and blackjack where players exploit small skill advantages and a ruthless understanding of money management to be successful. Cates earned his stake by grinding, the term used to describe the process of pressing a skill advantage over an extended period of…
DetailsI thought I would post this as an example of something that is profoundly irrelevant to traders. However, the problem is people actually take this nonsense seriously and base their decisions on it. If you look at both the daily and weekly trend of the AUD it is up. Now whether that continues and for how long…
DetailsI have opined before about my welcoming the death of the local Borders and Angus and Robertson bookstores. There is only so long you can go on ripping people off before they wise up – consumers are many things but there does come a point when they do become price sensitive. This reflexive price sensitivity…
DetailsInteresting graphic from Good comparing relative prices. The only thing missing is printer ink which on a rough calculation comes in at about $7,500 per gallon or thereabouts.
It had to happen we now have a social media analyst This news is as depressing as the graphic below that shows that Harvard MBA’s are now moving back into Wall St.