Ten Minutes With Tate Lets Talk Markets
Once again the world seems a slightly more chaotic place with the Middle East being the current flashpoint for stupidity. And once again markets do something interesting.
More Hedge Fund Fun
This follows from the chart of hedge fund earners I posted here. Where possible I have matched the salaries to the performance of their funds I then matched this to the performance of the S&P500 Total Return Index. I used the S&P500TR Index because it is the most widely used benchmark in the industry. Where…
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Two Economies, With One Set of Flaws
Who would have guessed that lazy politicians, a lack of vision, and greedy rent seekers were a universal issue?
Ten Minutes With Tate Heads I Win Tails You Lose
Have you ever wondered why the traders who manage your funds fly around in private jets whilst you sit down at the back of the plane? Have you ever been confused as to how your fund can consistently underperform the market but the fund managers make more in a month than you could conceivably make…
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Ten Minutes With Tate You Are Looking In The Wrong Spot
Right market right time – in terms of the technical aspects of trading there is perhaps nothing more crucial to a trader than being in the right place at the right time. The best stock selection tools in the world will not save you from being stuck in a market that is going nowhere.
Some Observations About Gold
Interestingly this post segues nicely from the previous one on Daniel Kahneman and the difficulties we have with thinking of the world rationally. Gold is the perfect exemplar of traders who cannot reason. The chart below is a daily chart of gold which shows that in the last month, gold has risen about 9.2%Its not…
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Ten Minutes With Tate Well That Sucked
There is no doubt that trading is a difficult business – there is the illusion presented by the internet and then there is the reality of managing a business day after day. And as with all business progress is not linear – it has ebbs and flows. Unlike the majority of other businesses in trading…
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Ten Minutes With Tate The World Will End…..Eventually
There is an old adage – garbage in, garbage out. Stemming from the world of computer science it is equally applicable to markets. If you are feeding your brain the wrong things then your internal software will be shaped by this and predictably the result of this will be ruinous
Ten Minutes With Tate All Time High
For the first time in a long time, the local market has managed to make a new all-time high. This of course has set hearts racing in the investing community. However, as always the picture is always a little bit more complex than people are led to believe.
