To call Michael Carroll a loser or any other name that might be deemed appropriate for someone who manages to blow $15mil is an easy thing to do but in many ways it is a simplistic judgement. Certainly reading the article gives a sense of someone completely out of control. However, this is not an…

This is an interesting way to solve a problem. I can think of a few people I would nuke and it would be a in a good cause.

This is an interesting way to solve a problem. I can think of a few people I would nuke and it would be a in a good cause.

To call Michael Carroll a loser or any other name that might be deemed appropriate for someone who manages to blow $15mil is an easy thing to do but in many ways it is a simplistic judgement. Certainly reading the article gives a sense of someone completely out of control. However, this is not an…

Some interesting developments in metals. Palladium – stopped out after three month run. The entire bullmarket in palladium has thus far lasted since August last year. No signal to go short yet. High Grade Copper – tipped out last session – took off at the same time as palladium. The initial part of this trend…

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To be honest I don’t know, nor does anyone else despite what they might say. There is usually a substantial amount of nervousness when you have a major markets slip for two days in a row. However, this has to be put into context of the overall gains in the market post the GFC .…

Richard Feynman has long been one of my intellectual hero’s, a man of searing intelligence who taught himself how to play bongo’s crack safes and pick up women. Not at all the pastimes one expects of a Nobel Prize winning physicist. This link is a geeky look at a hypothetical Feynman job interview. If the…

Whilst clearing my inbox just now I came across a market recap/forecast that included the following  headings- Actually the bit about being mental I added as it seemed appropriate for anyone silly enough to bang on about Gann and astrology. Once again someone proves my point that human irrationality is boundless.

Whilst clearing my inbox just now I came across a market recap/forecast that included the following  headings-                   Actually the bit about being mental I added as it seemed appropriate for anyone silly enough to bang on about Gann and astrology. Once again someone proves my point…

Richard Feynman has long been one of my intellectual hero’s, a man of searing intelligence who taught himself how to play bongo’s crack safes and pick up women. Not at all the pastimes one expects of a Nobel Prize winning physicist. This link is a geeky look at a hypothetical Feynman job interview. If the…

To be honest I don’t know, nor does anyone else despite what they might say. There is usually a substantial amount of nervousness when you have a major markets slip for two days in a row. However, this has to be put into context of the overall gains in the market post the GFC .…

…if the Dow is measured in gold. I find this style of charts profoundly inane. You don’t measure the amount of paint you might need to paint a room in the number of babies foreskins it will take.