LATEST BLOGS

Buying time promotes happiness

Despite rising incomes, people around the world are feeling increasingly pressed for time, undermining well-being. We show that the time famine of modern life can be reduced by using money to buy time. Surveys of large, diverse samples from four countries reveal that spending money on time-saving services is linked to greater life satisfaction. To…

Read more

Claude Shannon, the Las Vegas Shark

Long before the Apple Watch or the Fitbit, what was arguably the world’s first wearable computer was conceived by Ed Thorp, then a little-known graduate student in physics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Thorp was the rare physicist who felt at home with both Vegas bookies and bookish professors. He loved math, gambling,…

Read more

Getting Hit In The Head Is Bad For You

I have written about the remarkable John Urschel before and I did make a comment that it would be a shame to see such a remarkable intellect blunted by repetitive injuries. One of the N.F.L.’s smartest players did the math and decided to retire after just three years in the league. John Urschel, an offensive lineman…

Read more

FX YTD Performance

Since I was playing around with YTD performance I thought I would isolate a handful of currency pairs and see how they did and as you can see from below they are a mixed bunch. Variations in performance are generally by themselves not that interesting, after all its a market and it depends upon variation…

Read more

YTD Performance

As we sail past the half way point of the year I thought I look in the rear view mirror might be interesting to see how a few select markets have performed. There are no prizes for guessing that the local market has been shit.  

Read more

Maryam Mirzakhani

I first wrote about Maryam Mirzakhani when see became the first women to win a Fields Medal in mathematics.  Sadly a few weeks ago she lost her battle with cancer aged 40 – the world needs more special minds not fewer but disease of any kind owes no one any favours. For those interested in…

Read more

The Unexpected Antidote To Procrastination

A recent early morning hike in Malibu, California, led me to a beach, where I sat on a rock and watched surfers. I marveled at these courageous men and women who woke before dawn, endured freezing water, paddled through barreling waves, and even risked shark attacks, all for the sake of, maybe, catching an epic…

Read more

Fun And Games

Recently LB and I have been doing the Short Term Trading Magic seminars in a few places and it has been sometime since I did any form of presentation on a semi regular basis. As such it has been interesting to observe people as they work through various trading issues. One of the things I…

Read more

Six destructive habits that could be holding you back

We’re having a ‘Michael Yardney binge’ today. Here’s another article from our great property mate. I’ll hand it over to Michael now… I am a big fan of habits. Good ones that is. Of course, not all habits are productive ones. Some are bad for us, they stop us from succeeding, and they reinforce negative…

Read more

The key to financial freedom? Finding your mentor.

We have a special blog article for you today from guest author – Michael Yardney. Our ‘unreasonable friend’, property expert, and thought leader.   The key to financial freedom? Finding your mentor – by Michael Yardney   When we think of entrepreneurs we often think of trailblazers forging ahead on their own, someone who’s doing…

Read more

THE LONGEST RUNNING REPEAT-FOR-FREE TRADING MENTOR PROGRAM IN THE WORLD

Want to be an exceptional trader? Learn from the best. Chris and Louise have found the way to take the guesswork out of share trading.
They can teach you how to do this too!

WANT TO HEAR MORE?

Want to learn every instrument, over every time frame, where you trade your own plan?