Sucked In
$20 is an interesting number for Facebook
Weekend Reading
Things on the tablet for the weekend. Timing is everything: Brain scans reveal the secret of Bruce Lee’s one-inch punch Karate Black Belts’ White Matter Shows How a Powerful Punch Comes from the Brain Kudo to David B from the mentor program for these two Ding Dong, Daily Deals Are Dead ‘Beam Us Up, Mr.…
DetailsTo Every Thing There Is A Season, And A Time To Every Purpose Under The Heaven
There comes a time in every traders life where you just have to take the money. My guess is the owners of Groupon have been asking Google whether they still had that cheque for a reported $6 billion they were offering. Some trades/deals are life changes – the problem is most people dont recognise them…
DetailsKnightmare On Wall Street
Last week I wrote about the implosion of Knight Capital a market maker whose minor software glitch managed to almost implode the firm. Nanex a firm that deal in supply data and analysing market movements have produced the following little video that tracks one of their screens during the Knight meltdown. It starts a little…
DetailsOlympians And Advisors
I get feeds from all sorts of things ranging from HFT, obscure bits of derivatives trading news, physics – particularly string theory (which I don’t understand nor does anyone else) to how to lift heavy things without your small intestine popping out your backside. But occasionally I get something I dont expect. Such is the…
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The internet has become so much more interesting since the Russians starting buying video camera’s
Five Year Returns
Interesting little graph from ft.com/alphaville
A Few Rules
Whilst at the AIA Conference I was surprised at the number of folks who did not have a coherent approach to the market. In fact I would say that a plan was a rarity. This prompted me to dig out this old ready reckoner of points I think should be somewhere in your plan. Its…
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