I Am A Winner
I have gotten a few of these in the past few days – they seem to be slipping through the old spam filter. Clearly as a business idea this sort of thing works, otherwise they wouldn’t do it.
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Why not even exercise will undo the harm of sitting all day
A large review recently published in The Journal of the National Cancer Institute confirms what we’ve been hearing for years: Sitting can be fatal. It’s been linked to cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. In this latest meta-analysis, Daniela Schmid and Michael F. Leitzmann of the University of Regensburg in Germany analyzed 43 observational studies, amounting to more than 4 million people’s answers to questions…
Dow
Well….I am still long the Dow, boring that it is. The interesting thing about markets at or around new highs is the emotional problems they seem to bring. Traders struggle with the notion of buying something that is higher than it has been in recent times simply because we have inbuilt cultural notions about what…
Motivation Monday
If you do not know who Richard Feynman is do yourself a favour and buy a copy of the book Genius.
Pick Your Own Fight
Last year I had the pleasure of training with Dan Inosanto. For those who dont know the name he was a friend and colleague of Bruce Lee’s. We spent an afternoon listening to his wisdom and getting everything i could from someone who was 77 and still in wonderful condition. During one of the breaks…
Its Friday
Time to continue the World Cup theme – Some back-of-the-envelope maths regarding Luis Suarez: according to Wikipedia, he has played in 363 club league, cup and friendly matches since breaking through into the Nacional senior team in the 2005/06 season. He’s also played 78 times for the Uruguay national team. He has bitten three opposition…
Flash Boys and Investors
Lengthy but interesting. I have thus far resisted writing anything about Michael Lewis’s book “Flash Boys”, in part because I typically don’t want to waste time on timely issues (instead focusing on topics that are of long-term interest), although it has been a real exercise in self-constraint because there have been few books published in…
Behavioural economics and public policy
So popular is the field that behavioural economics is now often misapplied as a catch-all term to refer to almost anything that’s cool in popular social science, from the storycraft of Malcolm Gladwell, author ofThe Tipping Point (2000), to the empirical investigations of Steven Levitt, co-author of Freakonomics (2005). Yet, as with any success story, the backlash has…
The Patterns of World Trade
As expected we ship most of our dirt to China – pity that China seems to be stuffed. The original article can be found here – Euromonitor International
Motivation Monday
73 and still motoring….they make Russians tough…. Click the image to be taken to the video.
Take A Letter Maria
Its mail time – that time when I look at one of the many emails that hits the inbox. One of the challenges I find in trading is how to take only the best setups. A particular setup might tick all the boxes but there is something different about it and you don’t feel 100%…
The Fully Expressed Life
By “bliss” he meant that each person has skills and talents that collectively move us toward authentic self-expression. Bliss is our natural direction; it inspires the highest caliber of creativity and performance. Some people know the first time they put pen to page that they were born to write. Others feel most at home with law or…
Your genes affect your betting behavior
Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, National University of Singapore and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) have shown that betting decisions in a simple competitive game are influenced by the specific variants of dopamine-regulating genes in a person’s brain. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter – a chemical released by brain cells to signal other brain…
How To Cut A Cake Scientifically
Sir Francis Galton the creator of the concept of statistical correlation and the idea of regression to the mean also once wrote a paper on how to cut a cake scientifically. It turns out everyone has been doing it wrong – which is actually no surprise. Galtons original paper can be found here
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