Chocolate And Nobel Prizes
Says it all really.
All Men Lead Lives Of Quiet Desperation
Sunday saw the mid point of our current Mentor Program – at this gathering I get up and drone on about my philosophy of the trading world. One of the points I try to get across is the notion that activity does not equal profitability and that intriguingly the main motivation for trading for a…
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Bloomberg.…How do you sell the technology company you founded for $1.8 billion and five years later file for personal bankruptcy? For Halsey Minor, it may have been a fascination with houses, hotels, horses and art. Minor, 47, who sold CNET Networks Inc. (3549162Q) to CBS Corp. (CBS) in 2008, says he owes as much as $100 million…
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Tomorrow I begin my section of the mentor program and i thought it would be valuable to post up the best trading psychology video I have come across. This will serve the new mentorees well in their dealings with me and will change the course of their trading and their lives dramatically.
Hugh Hendry – Thoughts From Buttonwood Gathering
I am not a macro investor by any sense of the word but I always find Hugh Hendry interesting.
Money Cant Buy Happiness….Ya Reckon
Over the years there has developed a belief that people in more developed and richer countries were no happier than their counterparts in poorer less developed countries. Turns out this is not true, it seems that the old adage that you can never be too rich, too good looking or too smart has a ring…
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This is a piece by David Foster Wallace. I believe that it is part of a commencement address he gave to Kenyon College a small US college. Someone took his address and turned it into this interesting little short film.
Math As Myth
For all of the appearances of the golden ratio, there many be even more erroneous sightings of it. The spiral of the nautilus’ shell is often said to fit precisely within a golden rectangle regardless of its size. But that is untrue. Each nautilus shell does maintain the same proportions throughout the animal’s life (that…
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