I think some traders and investors have a difficult time dealing with uncertainty because they basically think they are right, and are afraid of being wrong. After all, no one likes to be wrong about something they have researched out and committed to. The problem with this posture is that you are more reluctant to [...]
Readers of the Viewpoints blog know that I don’t give quite the credence to the “expert” forecast as I do a good solid trading methodology, risk management and respect for the role of randomness. This does not mean however, that you should ignore the various scenarios that could unfold. It is always healthy to ponder [...]
Here is a recent Audio Interview (today) with Jim Rogers who always has some interesting insights as to what is going on in the financial world. Here he shares how he position sizes, why people see bubbles everywhere and the Wall Street machine.
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Written by Lara Crigger
Victor Sperandeo (also known as “Trader Vic”) is one of the world’s most outspoken commodities traders, with over 40 years of market experience. He has invested independently for the likes of George Soros, Leon Cooperman and BT Alex Brown, and has written a book, “Trader Vic on Commodities.”
Mr. Sperandeo also created [...]
Jim Rogers, if nothing else, has no axe to grind when he shares his observations on the markets. Unlike most of the Wall Street analyst, he actually does some serious homework on his investment themes. For example, between January 1, 1999 and January 5, 2002, Rogers traveled through 116 countries, covering 245,000 kilometers, seeing what [...]
John Paulson began his career at Boston Consulting Group before leaving to join Odyssey Partners, working under Leon Levy. He later worked in the mergers and acquisitions group at Bear Stearns. Prior to founding his own firm, he was a partner at mergers arbitrage firm Gruss Partners LP. In 1994, he founded his own hedge [...]
Also interviewed in Jack Schwager’s “Market Wizards” was Dr. Van K. Tharp. Although Van is not a trader, he his very well known for his research on how stress affects human performance in the financial markets. He has developed a series of tests that help traders confront their strengths and weaknesses, with the intention to [...]
I had the pleasure of working with Jack Schwager from 1980 to 1983. At the time Jack was the Director of Commodity research at Paine Webber Jackson Curtis, Inc., and the author of the famous book “Market Wizards,” Interviews with top traders.
In the Wizards Jack interviewed successful traders like Michael Marcus, Paul Tudor Jones and [...]
Jim Rogers talks to CNN’s Andrew Stevens about living the simple life despite his vast wealth:
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When it comes to the things that count, we humans don’t like to admit that we live in a world we know very little about. We also have a tendency to place a premium on the little that we know, and discount the larger amount that we don’t know.
It’s no wonder why we are not [...]
