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…
We are only a few hours away from the usual rush of New Year – New Me bullshit that seems to percolate to the surface at this time of the year. This may seem like a somewhat grumpy thing to say during the festive season. Surely the beginning of a New Year is something to…
For all the time executives spend concerned about physical strength and health, when it comes down to it, mental strength can mean even more. Particularly for entrepreneurs, numerous articles talk about critical characteristics of mental strength—tenacity, “grit,” optimism, and an unfailing ability as Forbes contributor David Williams says, to “fail up.” More at Forbes
