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- October 7, 2007The Cautionary Tale of Victor Niederhoffer
From the New Yorker comes a familiar story The Cautionary Tale of Victor Niederhoffer. More on Victor Niederhoffer can be found in my book.
- September 29, 2007Master Class with Nobel Prize Winner Daniel Kahneman
A short course in thinking from Daniel Kahneman. This might not help with your buys and sells, but it sure adds perspective to the “mind” part of the game. More.
- May 30, 2007Trading Principles and Lessons from Leonardo Da Vinci
A good read that adapts Leonardo Da Vinci precepts to trading: Leonardo Da Vinci’s model for learning to paint, from his own notes: 1. Imitate a masters work — best to imitate…
- April 16, 2007Michael Mauboussin: The Wisdom of Crowds
Michael Mauboussin Explaining the Wisdom of Crowds and Applying the Logic of Diversity (PDF). Michael on my podcast too.
- March 8, 20071938 Wisdom Part 2
Last night I posted an excerpt from The 1938 book “Commonsense Speculation”. Another very relevant excerpt: Never forget that all market profits are “paper” until collected. A $1000 or $100,000 paper profit…
- March 7, 20071938 Wisdom Part 1
The 1938 book “Commonsense Speculation” offers: One of the most commonest of speculative sins is to be unduly influenced by the previous high of a stock. If the price has declined a…
- February 20, 2007Larry Hite: Life Is A Betting Game
From Larry Hite: “There are just four kinds of bets. There are good bets, bad bets, bets that you win, and bets that you lose. Winning a bad bet can be the…