Last week I had the pleasure of sitting down and chatting with Steven Goldstein and Mark Randall from AlphaMind. During our chat, we ranged far and wide over all things trading psychology including some reminiscing about the good old days of being on dealing floors. It is well worth subscribing to their podcast if you…
…..I believe in prediction. I think you have to in order to get out of bed in the morning. But prediction is hard. Either you know that or you’re in denial about it. A lot of the reason it’s hard is because the visible stuff that happens in the world is a small fraction of…
Someone compliments you and you think, “They don’t mean it.” Something good happens and you hear, “I don’t deserve this.” You’re meeting new people and it’s, “They won’t like me.” And you usually accept those words because they’re coming from inside your head. It’s like the horror movie where the calls from the killer are…
I offer the piece below not with any knowledge of WeWork outside of knowing that it is a serviced office group that is trying to pass itself off as a technology company but rather as an example of how brokers, analysts and commentators can become wedded to a narrative and that this marriage can be…
Many traders struggle to change their minds. They do all the research, they study the charts, and they form a view. But what happens when that view is wrong? The biggest problem for many everyday traders is their exit plan. Rather than selling when a trade isn’t working, they doggedly hold their shares in the…
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I have written before that starting date is everything when we are looking at comparing the performance of instruments. Fudging starting dates is a favourite trick of fund managers when trying to make their fund look good, they simply hunt around for a starting date that makes them look good and then runs with that.…
I remember it like yesterday… The date was 17 June 1999, and the dealing room was unusually quiet. A big announcement was pending… one that would turn my life and career inside out. You see, my employer — Bankers Trust (BT) — was no longer. A takeover by Deutsche Bank had lowered the curtain on…
I saw the list below of the worlds most valuable technology companies and it did give cause to reflect upon my own assumptions. I was surprised to see MSFT at the top of the list – it didn’t seem that long ago that MSFT was being put out to pasture buried under the disastrous Steven…
AS A TRADER, you’re going to be misunderstood and even vilified by folks who can’t wrap their minds around what you do. Just because someone is IN your life doesn’t mean they want THE BEST for your life. That’s why you need to surround yourself with like-minded traders who DO understand you. They’ll marvel at…
NO-ONE WAS ‘born a natural’ at trading. It’s something you have to work at every day. You must chip away the rough edges to reveal the perfect trading plan. Sand back the psychological misadventures, before you can glide into profits. You end up falling in love with the messy process that trading is. Whenever I…
WE ALL LOSE OUR way sometimes. Even after you’ve nailed this trading game, and you’ve come out on top, sometimes it seems like the universe likes to screw with you and make you feel like life is a big Jenga game. The only constant with this is YOU. You’re the one in the screenplay of…
MANY YEARS AGO, when I had a ‘real job’, I used to run a department where a bunch of reporters would call up companies and update their credit histories. Graduates, straight out of business school. Young, hopeful, and enthusiastic. A top entry job, with a bright future assured. I remember I was holding an interview…
