Trader Icon – Jesse Livermore
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Interesting Chart Of The Day
When I run an explorer over an collection of stocks it has a number of benchmarks that a stock has to hit before being considered a potential trade. In addition to this standard exploration I also run what I call a dirty or bare bones scan – this is a scan with minimal hurdles for price…
Buffet Still Ahead In Hedge Fund Bet
This is rather like clubbing seals….. With four years to go in his bet with New York hedge fund firm Protégé Partners , Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffet is sitting in the catbird seat. The Oracle of Omaha made a 10-year bet six years ago that money invested in an S&P index fund would outperform a…
The Value Of Numbers
Two pieces on how numbers conflict with emotion and expectation. Star statistician Hans Rosling takes on Ebola The Case Against Early Cancer Detection
Oil Versus Shale
With current pissing contest that is the US versus OPEC I thought it would be interesting to see at what point everyone begins to feel pain. Knowing everyones pain point is always an interesting thing. Intriguingly finding this data took a little bit of digging through various sources, there is also a little bit of…
Where to buy Louise Bedford’s eBooks
A terrific way to learn about the sharemarket is by picking up some eBooks. As technology has developed, eBooks have become incredibly popular, and they can definitely be more convenient for the tech savvy, those with space issues, or those who find that reading a physical book is rather archaic. Just imagine – you won’t…
In Praise of Melancholy and How It Enriches Our Capacity for Creativity
“One feels as if one were lying bound hand and foot at the bottom of a deep dark well, utterly helpless,” Van Gogh wrote in one of his manyletters expounding his mental anguish. And yet the very melancholy that afflicted him was also the impetus for the creative restlessness that sparked his legendary art. In his diary,…
Gold Reserves
I know nothing about gold fundamentals – nor do I want to. However, I had excel open and thought it might be interesting to look at the pattern of gold reserves. And a chart always makes things more interesting….. A few things about this interest me. 1. Australia despite being the second largest gold producer…
Oil
I have in the recent past been tempted to write something about the fall in the price of crude oil. In part I have hesitated because to me the fall is merely a movement in price as evidenced by the chart below which I referenced in Charts of Interest. However, some of the recent commentary…
How a Single Mom Created a Plastic Food-Storage Empire
………. For five hours that day, they prospected for mink stoles and freezer units, gold watches and diamond rings. One of them, Fay Maccalupo of Buffalo, New York, dug up a toy car. When she saw the real Ford it represented, she planted her face against the hood and began to weep, repeating, “I love…
How Do You Improve When You’re Already The Best?
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Charts Of Interest 28/11/14
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Six Reasons Most People Will Never Get Rich …and How To Make Sure You Do! by Michael Yardney
Michael Yardney is an investment and wealth creation expert and a guest contributor for the Trading Game. Successful investors do things in a certain way that helps them become rich while others continue do things differently and in general they tend to struggle. I’ve come to the conclusion that when you do what most successful investors…
What Einstein can teach you about investing Michael Yardney
Michael Yardney is an investment and wealth creation expert and a guest contributor for the Trading Game. Investment is certainly not rocket science and while you don’t have to be a genius to succeed in property or in fact nay type of investing, it never hurts to learn from great minds when trying to achieve great…
