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Movin’ On

  
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The market doesn’t know your emotions or care about your portfolio. The market is moving on. And so should you.
– Terry Savage

One of the most challenging aspects of trading is learning to understand and appreciate that our constant desire to be right and smart in the markets will always cloud our judgment and too often work against us at the most inconvenient times.

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The challenge, as all of us will learn sooner or later, is that Mr. Market doesn’t listen or care about anyone’s else opinion but his very own. This is especially true when we are wrong and not following his hidden and often very confusing agenda. Mr. Market often acts like a rebellious teenager and does exactly what he wants to do, when he wants to do it, and at the same time has no respect for anyone who disagrees with him or believes he should act logically or within reason. In fact, a recent tendency is for the market to do exactly the opposite of tendencies we’ve seen so many times before. This is why you must place so much importance on what the market is actually doing rather than what you think it should do.

Or, better yet, we could just listen to some Bad Company:

According To Psychologists : 20 Facts -Why Traders Lose Money in Market ?

  
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  1. Men trade more than women. And unmarried men trade more than married men. 5
  2. Poor, young men, who live in urban areas and belong to specific minority groups invest more in stocks with lottery-type features. 5
  3. Within each income group, gamblers under perform non-gamblers. 4
  4. Investors tend to sell winning investments while holding on to their losing investments. 6
  5. Trading in Taiwan dropped by about 25% when a lottery was introduced in April 2002. 7
  6. During periods with unusually large lottery jackpot, individual investor trading declines. 8
  7. Investors are more likely to repurchase a stock that they previously sold for a profit than one previously sold for a loss. 9
  8. An increase in search frequency [in a specific instrument] predicts higher returns in the following two weeks. 10
  9. Individual investors trade more actively when their most recent trades were successful.11
  10. Traders don’t learn about trading. “Trading to learn” is no more rational or profitable than playing roulette to learn for the individual investor.

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Life and Trading Lessons from Hemingway

  
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As I work on brushing up writing skills for a potential book on my journey as a caregiver to my wife for 30+ months, I happened across a collection of advice for writers Hemingway sprinkled through his correspondence with colleagues over the years. Wisdom for the ages?

Life lesson:

“Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don’t be thinking what you are going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe. You should be able to go in to a room and when you come out know everything that you saw there and not only that. If that room gave you any feeling you should know exactly what it was that gave you that feeling. Try that for practice. When you’re in town stand outside the theatre and see how the people differ in the way they get out of taxis or motor cars. There are a thousand ways to practice. And always think of other people.”

And for traders as well as writers:

“Dostoevsky was made by being sent to Siberia. Writers are forged in injustice as a sword is forged.”

It makes me think of all the injustices bestowed upon newer traders; complexity, bad prices, one’s own emotional state, the non-obvious inner circle game– the list is endless.

The secrets Apple keeps

  
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FORTUNE — Among the many amazing things about Apple is how scrutinized it is. Rarely have a company, its products, and its top executive — the late Steve Jobs — been so thoroughly examined. And yet, for a corporation so frequently discussed, Apple is poorly understood. Its products are ubiquitous, but information about the institution is scarce — which is exactly how Apple wants it. Apple steers the conversation to its gadgets — for sale at an Apple store near you! — not its modus operandi. InInside Apple: How America’s Most Admired — and Secretive — Company Really Works, I hope to shine a light on how this company labors to keep the world from knowing what’s going on inside its walls, with secrecy, both external and internal, being one of Apple’s key tools. It’s ironic, really. The business world keeps nattering on about the importance of corporate transparency, yet the most successful company in the world is beyond opaque. Born from a feature I wrote for Fortune last year, Inside Apple dissects Apple’s covert ways and provides a road map for less-buttoned-up companies to follow. –Adam Lashinsky

Apple employees know something big is afoot when the carpenters appear in their office building. New walls are quickly erected. Doors are added and new security protocols put into place. Windows that once were transparent are now frosted. Other rooms have no windows at all. They are called lockdown rooms: No information goes in or out without a reason.

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