The new rich have developed their own annual migration pattern. While the wealthy of the past traveled mainly for leisure and climate — the ocean breezes of New England in the summer and the sunny golf greens of Palm Beach in winter — today’s rich crisscross the globe almost monthly in search of access, entertainment…
Betting against the market is not worth the expense, either. To take a short position, traders sell borrowed stock in a company they think is overvalued with the hope of buying it back at a lower price. If the stock price goes up instead, short-sellers have to buy more stock in order to “cover” the…
A recent survey has found many Australians have low financial literacy; don’t understand how mortgages work or how the RBA cash rate affects them. The survey conducted by super fund-owned bank ME of 1000 people found that almost half of Australians admit to being uninformed about the mortgage market. Furthermore, 40 per cent of survey respondents did not…
This dodgy idea actually popped into my head during a discussion the other night. For some reason I found myself sitting in a McBogan Cafe waiting for a kids party to end….its a long story and there are no cafes open (or even in existence) in the suburb that the party was being held in.…
We were aware that difficulties were bound to arise, but we didn’t realize how bad sleep deprivation truly feels. Alex went back to being monophasic, but I was determined. To make it work, I changed to an easier sleep schedule: the Everyman, where I slept for 3.5 hours at night and took three 20-minute naps…
In the Mentor Program we have been in the process of building and refining a trading system. The question was posed as to what I thought the greatest impediment is to generating such systems and by extension what is the greatest drawback that individual traders face. As always the greatest source of difficulty that traders…
The broader US market moves out of the congestion it has been in for most of this year.
