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Category: Psychology
- February 6, 2011Dickson Watts: He Never Goes Stale
Dickson Watts (PDF) has been dead for decades, but his wisdom never dies. Some fine lines: “Many lean, few lift.” “The man who conforms never transforms.” “Rest with descending wave; mount with…
- January 27, 2011Trigger Your Thinking: Jim Simons
An excerpt from: The Secret World of Jim Simons by Hal Lux: Like all quantitative money managers, Renaissance aims to find small market anomalies and inefficiencies that can support profitable trading on…
- January 26, 2011Jeremy Grantham Maps Out Why Trend Following Wins
Noted value investor Jeremy Grantham maps out why trend following wins (PDF) — which I am sure was not his intent. He seems to think like my style of trend trading, even…
- December 29, 2010The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
From The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms comes two zingers to ponder: “Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.” And: “They think…
- November 28, 2010Making the Trend Your Friend; Trend Following and Michael Covel in Barrons
Mike Hogan penned an article titled ‘Making the Trend Your Friend‘ in today’s Barrons. An excerpt: BUY-AND-HOLD INVESTING is a loser, says Michael Covel, founder of Trend Following, one of several Websites…
- November 12, 2010Bruce Lee: Be Like Water
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- September 10, 2010David Eckstein on Baseball (and Trading)
Jack Zaner wrote me today with a great quote from David Eckstein (2nd baseman for the San Diego Padres) about what it takes to play successful baseball in a pennant race: “The…