E-Readers Foil Good Night’s Sleep
Use of a light-emitting electronic book (LE-eBook) in the hours before bedtime can adversely impact overall health, alertness and the circadian clock, which synchronizes the daily rhythm of sleep to external environmental time cues, according to Harvard Medical School researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. These findings of the study that compared the biological effects of…
League Table
As the year draws to a close I thought I would generate a quick league table of how a few markets of interest performed this year. As usual there were markets that trended strongly and markets that didnt (the All Ordinaries….again).
Email Of the Week
Traditionally email of the week is a catalogue of the idiocy of people attempting to make some headway in trading and this week was no exception with two excellent contenders. Early in the week we had some one who was trying to convince us that she was a conservative long term investor and she sought…
Money Giveth, Money Taketh Away.
This study has been siting in my inbox for quite sometime and I finally got around to reading it – the abstract below gives a very good summary of the findings. This study provides the first evidence that money impairs people’s ability to savor everyday positive emotions and experiences. In a sample of working adults,…
Subconscious Bias
One of the difficulties of living in a world that is flooded with narratives is that they have an insidious way of seeping into your subconscious. This infiltration is unknown until you need to make a decision. The chart below is of QAN and upon cursory inspection it shows a relentless bearishness surrounding the stock…
Hedge Fund Capital Hits Record $2.82 trillion
I have to admit the psychology behind the sort of decision to invest in a hedge fund that admits to grossly under performing every benchmark intrigues me and does show that Kahneman and Tversky were on the money when they said that money induced glitchy thinking and caused us to depart dramatically from the basic…
Motivation Monday
Make certain you have your captions on – its the little cc button at the bottom of the player.
Oil Is Not The First Commodity To Crash In The Post-Crisis Period
Interesting chart and piece by Josh Brown at The Reformed Broker showing that there is nothing special about the collapse in oil.
Finviz – Year To Date Relative Performance
I was doing a bit of research for the market wrap on Talking Trading and was curious to know what the best performing commodity was so turned to Finviz which has a range of useful free data.
Particularly relevant for those of us who are getting on a bit. Robert Aronowitz, a historian of medicine and medical doctor at the University of Pennsylvania, points out that when drug companies are able to treat people who might become sick, as opposed to patients with symptoms, the market is a lot larger. Once put into the…
Charts Of Interest 12/12/14
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Where Are The Economists Yachts?
For your edification I bring you two articles. Firstly, a series of predictions made by Saxo Bank economists. Secondly, and more sensibly a piece that rightly asks – where are the economists yachts? Once you have read the first article you will automatically know the answer to the question posed in the second article.
Men Are Idiots …. Not Really New News…
So they took a look at the data on Darwin Award winners over the past 20 years, from 1995 to 2014. This is excellent data to work with. The winning event must be verified, winners must “show an astounding misapplication of common sense,” the winners must be both capable of making good decisions — and…
