Archive for January, 2010

• Charles Kirk's motto
  Posted by Ivanhoff on January 27th, 2010 at 9:17 am, Comments: 0

  “Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. it knows it must run faster than the fastest Lion or it will be killed. Every morning [...]

• Livermore on patience
  Posted by Ivanhoff on January 26th, 2010 at 8:14 pm, Comments: 0

  In a narrow market,when prices are not getting anywhere to speak of but move within a narrow range, there is no sense in trying to [...]

• Barry Ritholtz on Tops, Bottoms and Housing
  Posted by Ivanhoff on January 26th, 2010 at 6:15 pm, Comments: 0

  Here it is a great 40 min broadcast, where Barry Ritholtz discusses investors’ psychology during tops and bottoms and the current state of the housing [...]

• Livermore on sentiment
  Posted by Ivanhoff on January 26th, 2010 at 8:23 am, Comments: 0

  In a bull market bear factors are ignored. In a bear market bull factors don’t matter. When a man makes his play in a commodity [...]

• Taleb on Risk Management
  Posted by Ivanhoff on January 25th, 2010 at 9:04 pm, Comments: 0

  It is particularly shocking that people do what is called “stress tests” by taking the worst possible past deviation as an anchor event to project [...]

• How our implicit memory affects decision making
  Posted by Ivanhoff on January 20th, 2010 at 10:39 pm, Comments: 0

  Implicit memory is comprised of unconscious emotional patterns of relating to ourselves and others. It’s the kind of memory you access without thinking. It’s what [...]