Archive: January, 2010

What You Need to Know to Trade

There must be 10,000 lists like this… let me add mine – hopefully with many useful twists. 1. You need to know what you are looking for – both to enter the market and to exit. 2. You need to know what the variations on #1 are – and what they are not! 3. You [...]

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Exploring the Nature of Trader Intuition: Research from Cal-Tech

In short, …”tests show that Theory of Mind (ToM), rather than mathematical, abilities are better predictors of success in forecasting stock markets”.

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The Rose Bowl & Risk Decisions

60 seconds in and Ohio State is plowing down the field. As I write this sentence, they dropped the ball in the end zone. … Try it again – 3 and 10 and in!! Now the question relevant to trading and risk psychology is … 15 minutes ago did they KNOW that was how it [...]

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