Last Sunday, the most successful trader I knew from the Chicago Options pits texted me this - "Self-examination is the key to noodle making and other accomplishments." Now you should know two things - 1) this guy NEVER texts - we have been friends for going on 20 years and…
to discuss her recent book Market Mind Games
It never ceases to amaze me how "Regret Theory", while SO instructive, has been missed by psychologists & economists. http://t.co/lNfxouQ2
In case you missed it, here's my segment on CNBC Squawk Box this morning. Had a ton of fun with Joe and Andrew. More later. FRIDAY the 10th ... and yes, this Joe, this approach DOES work with putting too! In fact, it may work even better with putting because…
This is a true story. 3 years ago today (I have this weird memory for dates), I spotted Jamie Dimon and Bill Daley sitting outside Gibsons in Chicago. I just happened to have come from a lunch with Patricia Crisafulli who had written the House of Dimon and I had…
Lisa Feldman Barrett and her colleagues at The Affective Science Institute have been talking for a couple of years now about how even our eyesight needs emotion to actually work. She says that without emotional input we can see, but not identify, an object. Now even more evidence of the…
Here are the links to my thoughts on the needed new paradigm in risk management (All About Alpha) and the three things anyone can do to be more successful in the financial markets. What were they thinking? From MF to LTCM 3 Things anyone can do better to understand the…
Risk ain't what it used to be - if fact, most of the time it isn't even risk at all. Instead it is something called Knightian Uncertainty - or the fundamental inability of humans to know for sure what will happen tomorrow. Yet we have to make decisions about tomorrow…
THIS JUST CAME IN AN EMAIL TO ME.... makes me livid. For now I have removed the header.... is it just the relentless rain? 1) Turn on the computer in the morning (9:15 AM EST) 2) Place an order at the "Bounce Line" 3) Make money 4) Turn off computer…
Dear Denise, I hope you are well and that your book is coming along nicely. I haven't written in awhile, but I’ve been having quite a time with the Access course. When I began, I made steady progress through the first four or five chapters, and my trading was improving…
