The Mentor Program is a 6-month, repeat-for-free, comprehensive training course for traders of all levels – and our results speak for themselves. When we opened up for booking for the 2022 Mentor Program, there was a scramble. A flurry. A crazed run at the gate as people came on board. You are going to…
What does it take to succeed? What are the secrets of the most successful people? Judging by the popularity of magazines such as Success, Forbes, Inc., and Entrepreneur, there is no shortage of interest in these questions. There is a deep underlying assumption, however, that we can learn from them because it’s their personal characteristics–such as talent, skill, mental toughness,…
Being a leader requires confidence, decisiveness, and quick thinking–none of which are served by overthinking every decision or scenario or worrying about every move you make. There’s a time to think, a time to act, a time to reflect, and a time to move forward. Overthinking causes us to spend too much time thinking, getting stuck in a loop of…
Electric car upstart Tesla gathered reporters at a Santa Monica Airport hangar on a July afternoon in 2006 to unveil its battery-powered roadster, an audacious, $100,000 two-seater for which few automotive experts saw much hope of success. The company’s brash, tech-savvy CEO, Martin Eberhard, declared that Silicon Valley ingenuity would teach Detroit’s auto giants how…
When we opened up for booking for the 2022 Mentor Program, there was a scramble. A flurry. A crazed run at the gate as people came on board. The Mentor Program is a 6-month, repeat-for-free, comprehensive training course for traders of all levels – and our results speak for themselves. You are going to…
The two super powers in the investment game are property and shares. Some people feel that it’s a battle between these two vehicles, and that there is a clear winner. Well … you be the judge. Personally, I believe it doesn’t have to be one or the other, it can and should be both. After…
A common refrain in investing circles is to comment that there are too many mutual funds and/or ETFs in existence. “Why do investors and allocators need tens of thousands of funds to choose from?” they might say. And they’d be right. But what gets lost in that conversation is that the fund landscape would be…
This is something I was completely unaware of. Anyone who has given even a moment thought to how the Dow is calculated will appreciate that it is a useless anachronistic tool but I had no idea how screwed its calculation was. Apparently, the calculation of the Dow has a series of historical errors that were…
I must have slept through the biggest crash in history that was supposed to have occurred in October. As you would expect I have a bit more to say about this and am just putting together a video.
THERE ARE ONLY a few days to go before we open up for booking for the 2022 Mentor Program. The Mentor Program is a 6-month, repeat-for-free, comprehensive training course for traders of all levels. The Mentor Program kicks off in February 2022, but we open for bookings on Thursday 4th November. To get access,…
Life since the coronavirus pandemic has been a lot to swallow. But in terms of how to cope and carry on, the best first step may indeed be accepting the realities we’ve faced, however difficult or grim. In Japan, the concept of acceptance is fundamental to the traditional culture. There are many Japanese words that translate to…
The next time you come across a piece either in the financial press or on social media touting the wonders of artificial intelligence (whatever that means) for trading consider this piece from the UK where a motorist was fined because the AI responsible for dishing out penalty notices confused the T-shirt of a woman walking…
My mum’s favorite cold cream was Nivea, and I love it to this day. That’s the cold cream I was thinking of in the description of the face Eleanor keeps “in a jar by the door.” I was always a little scared by how often women used cold cream. Growing up, I knew a lot…
