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"Why Success Always Starts With Failure SPOT A FAILURE, AND FIX IT, EARLY “Few of our own failures are fatal,” economist and Financial Times columnist Tim Harford writes in his new book, Adapt: Why Success Always Starts With Failure. This may be true, but we certainly don’t act like it. When...

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One may think of Reagan what one likes, but one thing he had down pat was that he did not want any policy proposals pop up on his desk that the proposer wasn't able to summarize on one sheet of paper. Generally the blind, insecure and otherwise also clueless members of society have a great...

Experts wot wot. If I were a girl I'd want their babies !!! :lol::lol::lol:

I was thinking more of the guys who started and own their funds like eg Paul Tudor Jones who has 90% of his own money in his fund, because he says he wouldn't know where else to invest. :) Re what other people make. I do think it is important to benchmark and assess best practises. Starting...

Easiest way to manipulate people. The Church has been an Expert at that for centuries. Well. They did have a lot of time to get that down pat. The Fear-then-Relief-Principle. Works like a charm.

Yup. And oh yeah, don't forget, he is the guy who has got it cracked to trade off of time based tick charts !!! :lol::lol::lol: Hey. I offered to fly over and stay at a hotel and watch him trade live for one week. Of course I never got an answer, simply because there would have been nothing...

Thanks, will have a look. :)

Oh yes absolutely. Trading is like everywhere else, many will feel called, but only a select few are chosen. No question about that. Same like starting a business etc etc. Btw what I wrote about the possible returns vs compounding and eventual liquidity thresholds being exceeded is the...

To put that in perspective, almost no legal investment will provide you with annualised 10% / year the next 18 years. But in short term trading, yes indeed you can make 20 - 40 % on your capital / month. Not gonna be indefinitely compoundable as with growing funds you're gonna start moving the...

Don't like being negative but totally agree with that. The only chances of getting rich quick - while for obvious reasons beyond the scope for most - are DIY Trading, the Godfather AND -Mother of all unlimited withdrawal ATM's available out there, or selling crack cocaine on a large scale, or...

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Ego is inevitably the main cause behind most human failures. "An analysis of the profiles and motivations of habitual commodity speculators The focus of this study is the habitual speculator in commodity futures markets. Responses to a 73-question survey were collected directly from retail...