Funniest Thing Of The Day
I got this little mailer from IG Markets and it contained the following closing paragraph. The lesson the day is…..read your history it is surprising what it tells you about today.
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There Is No Magic
LB and I have just wrapped up the final in our series on full time trading. For the most part they have been enjoyable except for one twat who complained that it was unprofessional of LB to not present when she was suffering from severe laryngitis. Presenting for the first time in years is an…
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Happy Anniversary
We are approaching the ten year anniversary of the implosion of Lehman Brothers and the subsequent meltdown in the financial system that precipitated the GFC. As always it is instructive to look back in history and see what lessons can be learned. Although I will offer a spoiler – there is nothing new to be…
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Crypto Crash
I found this neat little chart on the total market cap of all crypto currencies. Since January the market has lost about $584B. So much for replacing money as we know it. The only similarity between cryptocurrencies and money as it is currency defined is that the saying a fool and his money are soon…
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The Biggest Crypto Hacks To Date
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Bitcoin Drawdown
Since I had a look at the MaxDD for MNF yesterday I thought it would be interesting to see the same for BTC. One of the arguments put forward by BTC fetishists is that BTC would display lower volatility than other currencies or payment methods. Somehow I dont think this claim stacks up, not unless…
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Hindsight Is The Perfect Investment Tool
It is often the preserve of finance journalists to suffer from the almost terminal affliction of hindsight bias – this sort of creeping determinism that some things were obvious all along. Recently I came across an excellent example of this whilst trawling for an online chart on Yahoo Finance. The piece breathlessly claims How buy and…
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Analyzing the Bitcoin Ponzi Scheme Ecosystem
Analyzing the Bitcoin Ponzi Scheme Ecosystem from Trading Game Pty Ltd
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