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You Want to Know the Truth About the World? Ask a Child…

  
Analysis, Education
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“Why is she so fat Daddy?” …looking at an obese woman struggling to get out of her car at the supermarket.

“I like your funny hair.” …said to a surfer with dreadlocks.

“How do you know that?” …asked of a religious, end-of-the-world crusader holding up a placard and yelling that “We’re all going to die and only God can save us!”

These are some of the random comments I’ve heard from pre-teen children over just the last few weeks. Parents of young children know all to well how uncomfortable children’s questions can sometimes be. We should relish the beautiful and at times brutal honesty they display without hesitation, though that is sometimes easier said than done.

Rarely is there any sacred ground. Honesty and a genuine unquenchable curiosity are two of the most wonderful traits of children; ironically, they’re also the two traits all to often lacking in adults. (more…)

6 Personality Traits and impact upon trading

  
  Education
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* Locus of control – The degree to which a trader believes that the ability to be successful is within his or her control;
* Maximizing tendency – The degree to which individuals seek optimum outcomes from their decisions, not just outcomes that meet or exceed expectations;
* Regret susceptibility – The tendency to look back on outcomes of decisions and focus on negative aspects, creating regret;
* Self-monitoring – People’s tendency to track and control their own thoughts, feelings, and behaviors;
* Sensation seeking – The degree to which people seek varied and stimulating experience;
* Type A behavior – The degree to which individuals are driven to achieve.  (more…)

Women and The Market

  
  Education
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1.) I suggest that one pays attention to the stocks that could care less if they are purchased or traded. The quiet ones. The non volatile ones.(the best, most stable women are thriving and so busy enjoying their lives they don’t really worry about being snagged, they have more men in pursuit than they can usually manage or have time for.) They are the best catches. They don’t dress to necessarily impress or seduce, they don’t have to.

2.) If the idea of competition stirs interest, don’t get seduced, investors might merely be competing with each other when they should be focused on learning about how the market moves and what she needs at the moment. The male or investor might miss something big being divulged or demonstrated when he worries about the competition. The conversation/connection with the woman or the market must be sustained fully.

3.) Men can NEVER be caught. Men fall in love first. If a woman tips her hand in this regard she is done. Men are suspect if something comes too easily. Unless he’s a narcissist and imagines that he is irresistible or invincible. It doesn’t hit him immediately that he has to have her. If a stock gains lots of attention it will probably lose it’s momentum soon and is probably just flirting with you or using you to create competition for the man she truly wants. Real interest from a woman is steady and climbs deliberately, carefully, without much frenzy. Watch out for those stocks and when you find one commit.

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