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The Wisdom Of Crowds

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I like probably every other person on the planet have a disposable Gmail account that I use to collect rubbish. One of the intriguing things about this account is the specificity of ads that Google generates. All of them relate to trading/investing which means in some way shape or form Google is reading my mail…

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Weekend Reading

Disappearance on Mount Marathon Does Biology Make us Liars? Wall Street’s Forgotten Victims Have Some Advice Half of the Facts You Know Are Probably Wrong The Global Arbitrage of Online Work The Ultimate Guide To Memory      

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Moneyball and Medicine

I came across the following article in the New England Journal of Medicine and it looks at the difficulties of getting evidenced based medicine on a firm footing. The article uses the book/film Moneyball to highlight how hard it is to get people to think in a mechanistic way instead of using intuition/magical thinking. The…

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Bear Market May Begin Tuesday….

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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (MarketWatch) — Will the bull market come to an end on Oct. 9? Don’t laugh. It turns out that two of the most prominent market turning points of the last decade occurred on this very date. The first was the beginning of the 2002-07 bull market, which occurred Oct. 9, 2002. The…

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Charles Bukowski

Bukowski was often cited as the voice of the working man – a sort of blue collar poet/philosopher. Friends of mine often comment that they would like my lifestyle. My response to them is the same as my response to the above quote. Dont like your life or what it entails then f#^cken do something…

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Caution

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I have been banging on lately about the lack of courage/commitment of many in equities markets. The little graph below is related to and online survey run by the WSJ It asks specifically what which fund investing mistake have you most often made? Whilst the question relates to the buying and selling of mutual funds…

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