Since the early years of this century, it has been commonplace for computerized analyses of athletic statistics to guide a baseball manager’s choice of pinch hitter, a football coach’s decision to punt or pass, or a basketball team’s debate over whether to trade a star player for a draft pick. But many sports experts who…

It is so tempting to get lost in the noise and intrigue of financial markets that we can easily forget what type of investor we are. Although the investing community can at times appear something of an amorphous blob attached to the latest in-vogue topic; groups of participants are engaged in wildly different activities that…

Naturally, traders look to the internet for guidance its ubiquitous presence means that this is inevitable. Unfortunately, the trading-related videos you see on the internet are often a very unsuitable role model for traders because the lifestyle they purport to show is a work of fiction.

“If you don’t rule your mind, your mind will rule you,” More – Outside

Investor incompetence might play a larger role in poor results than you think. That’s thanks to a phenomenon called the Dunning-Kruger Effect. To explain, Barry welcomes David Dunning to the podcast. Dunning is a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan.

Your brain and subsequent behaviours and feelings are a function of the information you feed it. The adage of garbage in and garbage out applies equally to your internal software as it does to any computer coding.