"Video For Trader" Posts
Michael Mauboussin: The Success Equation – Untangling Skill and Luck
By Lawrence
An interesting talk based on the book “The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck” by Michael Mauboussin. Mr. Mauboussin is managing director and head of Global Financial Strategies at Credit Suisse. It is a long talk for about an hour. You can get the book from Amazon.
Ed Wray: Democratisation of Finance
By Lawrence
As banks refuse to lend money to small and medium size businesses, technology is filling in with huge implications on the traditional banking services.
Kevin Slavin: Market Trading Systems Need To Be Rebuilt For Humans
By Lawrence
The problem Kevin Slavin described here is very real. Humans are indeed getting clueless on how these bot driven markets are doing. His suggestions, interestingly, is exactly what I am trying to accomplish with the development of the Real-Time Trading Assistant, a tool I have created to deliver meanings and context about the markets in […]
John Coates: Banks must acknowledge the physiology of risk-taking
By Lawrence
Interesting talk of correlation between traders’ physiology and their risk-taking behaviours.
Kevin Slavin: Debunking Luck
By Lawrence
A great talk on the concept of luck. Kevin Slavin has done a talk on algos in financial markets several years ago and I am very impressed by his work.
Al Brooks: Trade Profitably with No Indicators
By Lawrence
Al Brooks explains his binary approach to day trading the Emini S&P. Al’s approach to trading the Emini S&P is very different from my style and it works well for him. For beginner traders, it shows that to trade effectively you have to find your own way. I have asked Al about his recommendation of […]
Veritasium: Learned Helplessness
By Lawrence
A short and clear presentation of the concept and possible solutions to break the curse. Do not under estimate this behaviour – if you let it takes hold of you, you will not make decisive decisions to cut losses when you are caught on the wrong side of of the market. Some people can this […]
Shawn Achor: The Happiness Advantage – Linking Positive Brains to Performance
By Lawrence
Mr. Achor speaks very fast in this video. His work identifies and sum up nicely what it takes to be more productive. More importantly, how positive psychology can help us perform better in almost everything.
Talks at Google: Robert Greene, Mastery
By Lawrence
If you are not ready to read the book Mastery, watch this video for an overview about the book. It is a long video at almost an hour duration. So be prepared to spend the time. For those who are interested, my review of Mastery.
