Better Than That
So we finally got these songs as done as they will ever be. In fact, we named the CD 'Finally!'. You know, we popped it out of the CD burner…
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April 1, 2016
Healthcare Sector Updated
A week ago we had an NFTRH update (now public) about the Healthcare sector. With a nod to this morning's Market Psych 101 article, I was at a point of…
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April 1, 2016
Deprogram Yourself
The title of this article is not an assumption that you, astute reader, are little more than a robot following the direct and implied commands of other robots when trying to make logical sense of the state of modern financial markets. Personally, I have found that I need to stay on a path of post-deprogramming maintenance in order to stay right with a complex market backdrop.
On an inward-looking basis, we as investors and traders are faulty humans going up against robots (Ref. Rise of the Quantitative Robots) that are much smarter than we are with numbers, with data mining and with extrapolation. What do we have, puny little human brains with all associated biases, ego distortions and other faults? Yes, that is us.
We can mitigate these things by committing to double check our egos, first and foremost making sure we realize that we will err, we are not the best there is and the market does not care even one little bit about us. We can commit to being the best ‘me’ we can be.
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April 1, 2016