Trader’s Narrative

I’m going to tell you exactly how you can become a successful trader. But a word of caution. You are probably not going to like the answer. I’m not going to sell you a course or a book or anything like that. So if that disappoints you, simply skip this and go read something else.
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This is a response to Smith’s essay in the Wall Street Journal on February 7th, 2009 titled “Greed is Good“. In the essay Smith, a former partner at Goldman Sachs argues that bonuses are a necessary part of compensation on Wall Street and that changing this would damage the competitive nature of firms as the […]

Due diligence has many meanings depending on context. If you pressed me for a definition within finance, I would say it is:
The process of investigation undertaken by an party to gather material information on actual or potential risks involved in a financial transaction or relationship.
If you suffered losses as a result of Madoff’s fraud, then […]

Well, I think it is time I came clean.
I have been taking methylcobalamin. You could say I’m a meth(ylcobalamin) junkie.
Before you start organizing an intervention, I should explain that it is just good old vitamin B12.
It’s just that instead of taking it orally, I’ve been injecting it.
What?
There are many forumulations of vitamin B12:
Cyanocobalamin, […]

I’ve known for some time that I have a slight astigmatism but since I wasn’t particularly excited about wearing glasses I kept ignoring it. I finally gave in and got a pair recently. For frames, I chose Ray Ban titaniums because they are light and as inconspicuous as possible.
Any reluctance I had evaporated the instant […]