One of the most difficult issues for traders to overcome is their emotional investment in the outcome of any trade they take. Every time you take a trade long or short there is some degree of emotional investment even in the most experienced trader. There is no nexus between being right and being profitable but…
I was playing with the top 500 local stocks by capitalisation and decided to generate the table below which looks at the year to year performance of the top 10% which I arranged into very loose bins below. As you would expect there are a small number of outliers and a cluster around the bottom…
With nothing else to do during lockdown, I thought I would have a little fun with excel and look at two closely related indices and see if analysing their returns told me any substantive. Spoiler alert it didn’t other than there were times when the All Ords TR did better and times when the ASX/S&P/200…
In this post, I had a bit of a dig at the self-congratulatory nature of super funds and their lack of performance. In my piece, I mentioned that the long term rate for super funds was quoted at being around 7% for the past 30 years. So I decided to see what the differential between…
It’s been one of those days, maybe I am underselling this, let’s call it one of those years…. In 1976, a professor of economic history at the University of California, Berkeley published an essay outlining the fundamental laws of a force he perceived as humanity’s greatest existential threat: Stupidity. Stupid people, Carlo M. Cipolla explained, share…
Ever wondered why markets work the way they do? This might help.
Sleep has long been the secret weapon of athletes just as it should be for traders. Scientists have a firm grasp on the purpose of certain automatic physical functions, like blinking, breathing, or digestion. When it comes to sleep, however, researchers still aren’t clear on why exactly your body needs to shut off every night.…
It has been a while since I updated my superannuation fees chart but was prompted yesterday by the following graphic that hit my LinkedIn feed. This was followed by the usual round of self-congratulations and back slapping as to how amazing the superannuation industry was. However, the table is lacking context in that it does…
This could easily fall under the heading of opportunities but it deserves a stand alone topic. When running my scans over the past months I have noticed that there has been a degree of repetition in the sort of stocks that have been popping up. Whenever this occurs it means I am being told something…
Following on from my earlier post on some of the outsized gains in the local market I thought I would have a quick look at the top 10 gains in the US. As you would expect it follows a similar pattern to what was seen locally.
With the world supposedly going to hell in a handbasket, it is worth reminding everyone that the market doesn’t care.
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As October approaches once again we begin to see in the press the usual moaning and wailing about the impending implosion of the market and not doubt as October gets closer and closer this gnashing of teeth will reach a crescendo. October occupies a singular fascination for the ill-informed courtesy of two events – the…
