If That Was a Bubble, What Is This? Are you aware that Warren Buffet’s performance on Berkshire Hathaway (A) was about 1.6% last year? While that performance squeaked out a positive return, he also saw a 30% drawdown as [...]
Price Discovery and the Brave New World of What is Money? The primary and central tenet of capitalism is that markets arise to solve problems. While this might appear obvious on the surface, it’s important to think about whenever [...]
Who Is The Fastest Horse In This Race? In May of this year, famed trader and hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones announced his interest and support for Bitcoin. At the time of his announcement, Bitcoin was trading at [...]
Basic Forex Trading Strategies If you’ve been reading the news lately you've seen a ton of headlines that could easily scare you to death. But you know what’s interesting…? It’s always been that way! If you study the financial markets for [...]
Punching Houdini and Mastering Risk Risk is a four-letter word. However, if you plan on being a successful trader, you’ll want to develop an appreciation for what “risk” is, how it arises, and what you can do to control [...]
Can a Marshmallow Predict Your Long-Term Trading Success? Sixty years ago, Dr. Walter Mischel, a leading psychologist and former Stanford University professor, performed a simple, but enlightening experiment. The experiment involved a marshmallow, a child, and a slice of [...]
Lessons Learned From Unknown Market Wizards In the 1980’s Jack Schwager was a commodity analyst with a large Wall Street brokerage house. He had the idea of writing a book that would consist of interviews with top traders exploring [...]
“Follow The Leader” Works In Financial Markets Too! Do you remember playing the children’s game “Follow The Leader?” A leader or "head of the line" is chosen, then the children all line up behind the leader. The purpose of the game is [...]
How Blockchain Technology Could Help Our Elections Do you think that the American electoral process is broken? Your answer might depend on whether or not your candidate won the recent presidential election. That would then mean about 50% of [...]
The Ins and Outs of Volatility Trading Over the last twenty years, the investment landscape has been altered by two massive trends. The first is the shift from single stock and mutual fund investing into exchange-traded products (primarily exchange [...]
