I recently read George Soros’ The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means, a bargain book I got off Big Bad Wolf 2012. Having read the author’s Alchemy of Finance, this 162 page book further refines his idea on reflexivity. While I don’t claim to understand every single […]
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Overcoming Fear
June 13th, 2013 No Comments
Tags: fear · George Soros · human behaviour · Laplace's Demon · learn · objective reality · painful memory · trust
Of Greed and Fear
May 19th, 2013 No Comments
It is said that the two greatest emotions are greed and fear. It moves anything that has a price action in it. Which is exactly why and how the stock market, the property market, the foreign exchange market or any markets move through a cycle of ‘boom and bust’ (just as how the legendary George Soros coined it) […]
Tags: adaptive · boom and bust · complexity theory · fear · fear of losses · fear of missing out · George Soros · greed · information risk · others · predictive · price risk
The Perfect Utopia
March 12th, 2013 No Comments
This post ought to beget more questions than answers because I am still thinking about the thinking. The question at hand is on man’s search for life’s holy grail. So far I am satisfied with the finding that we are driven by one of these three – (a) Freudian’s will to pleasure (b) Nietzsche’s will […]
Tags: Ecclesiastes · George Soros · holy grail · incrementalism · Robert L Bacon · The Secrets of Professional Turf Betting · Victor Niederhoffer · will to meaning · will to pleasure · will to power
