Neat little review from the Economist of The Alpha Masters: Unlocking the Genius of the World’s Top Hedge Funds by Maneet Ahuja and The Hedge Fund Mirage: The Illusion of Big Money and Why It’s Too Good To Be True. by Simon Lack. I have already spoken about The Hedge Fund Mirage and found it to be…

Got bounced out of Spain last night. The joy of systems trading is going long when everyone else thinks the world is about to end.

Wall Street relies on “stock analysts.” These are people who do research on companies and then, no matter what they find, even if the company has burned to the ground, enthusiastically recommend that investors buy the stock. They are just a bunch of cockeyed optimists, those stock analysts. When the Titanic was in its death…

I thought I would post two versions of my XJO context file. This is the longer term view – as you can see a very ordinary congesting market that has been range trading for close to a year. This is the context view compressed and I wanted to talk about signals within this chop. The…

Walmart is a uniquely American experience. However, I am certain that not paying enough attention at school would lead to the same life outcomes here. If you have a little bloke not paying attention at school simply show them this as an example of what awaits them in the future.

Be interesting to see how the Yanks feel after their holiday.

Found this on the google box. Looks like he is cleaning/power cleaning about 90kg – not bad for a bloke with one leg. So how is the sooking about being too tired to work out going…..

Today’s contribution comes from Scott Lowther our system tester/designer extraordinaire…..   I did something the other day that I have not done in a long time, I succumbed and read one of those main stream media articles on investing, and how dollar cost averaging pays off. Since completing the Mentor program in 2007, I normally…

I have been a fan of the Khan Academy since I first encountered it – it seems to me that digital delivery of education has a different agenda to traditional education. Digital is about teaching – traditional is about credentials and the provision of degrees.  

For some reason I get a copy of Your Trading Edge sent to me on a regular basis and generally after a quick scan to see how far people can drop into superstition and magical thinking it goes in the bin. Not this week because one article contains a by line so staggeringly ironic that…

As you would expect I keep a file of all world indices but I call this file a context file in that it has no information other than price and a few coloured lines. The reason I do this is simply to remove as much noise as possible and to get a sense of what…