October 2013

Why Markets Trend

I really liked this way of thinking about trending markets courtesy of the Michael Platt chapter in Jack Schwager’s excellent Hedge Fund Market Wizards.  Platt founded the $25 billion hedge fund BlueCrest thirteen years ago. It is one of the ten largest hedge funds in the world and has become well known for its dedication…

Boiler Room Diaspora

diaspora (di·as·po·ra) noun dī-ˈas-p(ə-)rə, dē- the movement, migration, or scattering of a people away from an established or ancestral homeland It’s almost over. It’s ending with a whimper, not a bang. One by one, the last of the cold-calling retail brokerage firms are fading away. The game that Jordan Belfort invented twenty years ago had managed…

This Week on TRB

    Here were the most read posts on TRB this week, in case you missed them: Why Most Traders Fail 10 Terms Investment Pros Use to Raise Money October: Into the Wild Frequency of Rebalancing: Why it matters (and why it doesn’t)  

Big Picture Conference 2013 – Full Agenda

Below is the complete agenda for next Tuesday’s The Big Picture Conference 2013. If you haven’t already reserved your spot, there are a few tickets left, click the link: https://tbpconf13.eventbrite.com/ I looked at the guest and media list we have coming this morning, you could run a second conference just with the attendees! This is…