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Sunday, September 28, 2008

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Dr. Brett is writing a series on the personality traits associated with risk-taking (as examined in some academic research), and in his second post, he reports on a trait that might not immediately jump to mind when you think about risk: 2) Entrepreneurial Idea-Generators – The research found that one of the two trait facets associated with financial risk assumption was “ideas”. The entrepreneurial trader is one who derives particular interest and satisfaction from idea generation (developing views on markets, building trading systems)…

Playing Defense First

Friday, June 6, 2008

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As you probably saw, the markets staged a broad-based rally yesterday on reasonable volume. The rally kind of came out of left field, as there is still a major divergence across the market indexes, and getting long here seems like a rather risky move. For that reason, we do not plan to adjust our June positions at this time. There’s an old saying that “markets tend to crash down, not up.” But bromides aside, as we have written elsewhere, iron condors…

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Idea Generation, Trading Success, and the Liberal Arts

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