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The Mindset Of The Profitable Trader

Well, we are now some three weeks into the lastest mentor program and it is interesting to see the shift in the thinking of some of the participants. I have to admit it is always intriguing to see the ideas that new traders seem to have picked up along the way and often how tenaciously…

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Diffusion Of Responsibility

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Over the weekend I revisited this article from The Guardian It was the holy grail of investors. The Black-Scholes equation, brainchild of economists Fischer Black and Myron Scholes, provided a rational way to price a financial contract when it still had time to run. It was like buying or selling a bet on a horse, halfway…

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The Top Five Regrets Of The Dying

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There was no mention of more sex or bungee jumps. A palliative nurse who has counselled the dying in their last days has revealed the most common regrets we have at the end of our lives. And among the top, from men in particular, is ‘I wish I hadn’t worked so hard’. More from the…

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So You Want To Be A Trader

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The typical evolution of a trader goes something like this. You have read a few magazines  perhaps bought a few shares you may even have seen Wall Street on video. You go to bed Sunday night, wake up Monday morning and decide that you are a stock market trader. Not too implausible you think, after…

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Chart Of The Day

For some reason these drop into an email account I keep for getting rubbish. These are the guys who have the tendency to do odd things such as measure the current P/E of the S&P500 in turnips and then try and make some prognostication about the number of turnips now versus 16,000 years ago. I…

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There Are Good Rules And There Are Bad Rules

Whilst having breakfast I came across this blurb from an individual who is wanting to move from the sell side of the industry to the advisory/money management. These are his rules for investing – Industries are under-analyzed, relative to the market on the whole, and relative to individual companies. Spend time trying to find good…

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Persistence

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Our current mentor program is one week as of today and before the program began we had a number of people literally begging us to let them in early so they wouldn’t miss out on a place when bookings opened. Here is the interesting thing – the people we have had ask for a refund…

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How Do You Know?

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Someone bounced me the following quote from a newsletter by Richard Russell who is regarded in the US as somewhat of a doyen of predictive technical analysis. The worst kind of market is a market that goes down on good news. As I write, optimism is in the air, and the Dow is down 95…

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