Confirmation is an insidious little malady that afflicts everyone at some stage. Our natural desire as members of a herd is to find people who agree with our point of view. In trading this takes the extreme form of overweighting opinions that match ours and underweighting those that disagree with us. The natural tendency when…
Freakanomics is one of my go to podcasts whilst exercising. This episode looks at how to use evidence based data to help with poverty.
I have to admit that over the past few years I have found the performance of the local market to suck big time. I am somewhat comforted by two things. I am not alone and the internet grants me access to every market in the world. If you want to know how poor the local…
One of the more interesting things about winter in Australia is the return of the various winter sporting codes. This is interesting because it heralds the return of the uniquely Australian obsession with provincial sports and a breathless sporting coverage that attempts to give the impression that people who kick or chase an inflated piece…
I was going to produce a more in depth look at how various markets performed over the past year but in doing so I would merely be replicating data others had already assembled. So I took the easy way out and just snipped theirs. The table below is a familiar one from Finviz and it…
I first heard of Professor Terry Speed not through our local media which is obsessed with provincial sport stars and bogans but rather through the BBC podcast More or Less which I consider to be compulsory listening. So doing a bit of digging I came across the following video. If you want a quick…
Over the next few weeks I want to start looking at some of the bias’s that make traders stupid and to look at what can be done to overcome these issues. It is important to note at the beginning the problems with your internal language are often not related to intelligence. In fact work by…
This sport is hard enough – I cannot imagine how hard it is to try it one handed.
Something for your Sunday morning tea and toast. The early ones are magnificent – the later ones not so much.
There is a preview of our first episode on the website. Click the image below.
I talked briefly about margin debt in my Is The Market Overvalued pieces This blog posting does a much better job at looking into the implications of margin debt than I did.
I have long been a fan of the Science of Sport blog by Ross Tucker and Jonathon Dugass. I am a fan because they take basic hard core science and use it to shoot holes in some of the more controversial topics in sports science. Most notably, they spotted Lance Armstrong as a cheat simply…
