I was preparing a piece for the Australian Investors Association when I came across this quote. The story telling mind is allergic to uncertainty, randomness, and coincidence. It is addicted to meaning. If the storytelling mind cannot find meaningful patterns in the world, it will try to impose them. In short, the storytelling mind is…
Interesting juxtaposition between the Dow and the Russell 3000. You cannot argue with new highs….although some people do.
Whilst away for a strategy meeting last week part of the conversation drifted to the notion of working for yourself as a lifestyle choice. A subset of that discussion was simply why the f#%k would you willingly work for someone else. We all tried to work out the premium that would be required for us…
Interesting long article about the demise of alpha – that is a positive return over and above what the market can intrinsically produce. I would probably add that there has never been a situation in history where money managers have en masse produced alpha, so the situation being described is not new. Fund managers have…
This is an invite we are extending to everyone – Hi everyone, David’s personal assistant – Ruth, will be booking everyone in and giving the details about the venue. I actually sent out an email to everyone who watched the David Chia video to tell them how to book in. Oh my gosh – I…
This is a fascinating article in that you can take out the references to food and eating less and substitute the expression – why is is impossible to follow a trading plan. Long-term multicomponent weight management interventions were generally shown to promote weight loss in overweight or obese adults. Weight changes were small however and…
As the chook shed fire that was the us governments shut down unfolded the press was full of words such as calamity and disaster without actually understanding what those words meant within the context of the shutdown. Many (read most) commentators missed the fact that the US was not Greece, Ireland, Spain, Portugal or Italy…
I recently did a video on stockmarket returns and the irrationality of new traders when it comes to their over inflated expectations. Since the campaign that contains this video has just gone out I thought I would also post it here.
A little late in the day but I might begin posting little things to get the week going.
Why We Dont Count Open Equity In one of my recent videos I mentioned the problem of counting open equity as yours. When you deal in CFD’s the dealing system has a a nasty habit of showing your total profit/loss on your current trades. I have dropped in what this looks like from my current…
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