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…

A new academic study asks whether hedge funds make markets inefficient and the answer appears to be ‘no.’ “Hedge Fund Herding and Crowded Trades: The Apologists’ Evidence,” is the work of Blerina Bela Reca of the University of Toledo, Richard W. Sias, University of Arizona and Harry J. Turtle, Washington State University. The authors examined…

Maybe….maybe not.  Its probably more akin to pick pocketing with baseball bat – supposedly subtle and frictionless but actual a source of violence. More here

Just to widen everyone’s gaze. To steal from Mark Twain….reports of the death of trends have been greatly exaggerated.