Russell 2000 and Dow Congestion Zones
The shallow end of the market seems to be congesting. As does the fat end of town.
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Russia Is On The Nose…..I Wonder Why?
I have to admit I very rarely look at emerging markets since I regard and emerging market as any market that will send a hedge fund broke. However, these two popped up on a routine scan and I present them for interests sake only.
How Quitting My Corporate Job For My Startup Dream F*cked My Life Up
Not directly trading related but it does share some commonality with the traders journey. As we grow up, we share more of our life with our partners than with our friends or family. While I was lucky to have such an amazing girl, it was so sad to see many of my entrepreneur friends breaking…
Quick Look
Before I do a formal data run in an hour or so I thought it might be interesting to look at some interim charts. At our last Mentor Program get together I tried to instil that trading is a profession of listening and waiting. In my opinion it is not a profession of doing really…
2016 Mercedes AMG GT
For an overview see here – Mercedes Targets Porsche Fans With $129,000 Sports Car
The Agony And The Ecstasy
JP Morgans rather dramatically titled EYE ON THE MARKET Special Edition is an interesting read but probably not for the reasons they had hoped. Essentially the piece is an advertisement for diversification within a portfolio and is one of those wonderful documents that analysts get paid to produce. From a philosophical standpoint I agree with the…
Clever Clogs
I have posted this before but I am still staggered at the amount of intellectual capacity captured in a single photograph. For interest sake Marie Curie is only one of three people to have been awarded the Nobel Prize twice and the only person to win it in two separate disciplines. I dont count Linus Pauling…
Drawdowns And Resilience
There are two things that I regard as permanent fixtures of trading – drawdowns and the need for resilience. People come to trading all bright and enthusiastic with the belief that their equity will resemble a lunar launch – it will go straight up and never come down. When this magical state of affairs does…
China
I have a view that we never really had a true mining boom – we have a mining infrastructure boom which is a very different thing. This infrastructure boom was predicated on a small upswing in demand from China – it was not based upon an explosion in commodities prices which would have been symptomatic…
8 Tech Companies That Turned Down Huge Buyouts
I caught a news snippet the other day that said that Rovio the makers of Angry Birds, the game that has kept teenagers and executives alike amused whilst sitting on the toilet had struck a little bit of a hiccup and I remembered that in 2011 they were offered $2.25 billion for the company. This…
The Story Of Alibaba
Alibaba is a company that may dwarf everything that has come before it when it eventually lists. Click the image below to be taken to the podcast.
How to Win the Loser’s Game, Part 1
This short doco is part of an ongoing series that on the strength of the first episode appears to be well worth subscribing to. My favourite bit – Typical of the reports produced on this subject is this one by the Pensions Institute, based at Cass Business School in London. Researchers examined…
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