Seeking Consciousness

Consciousness can only be sought through science and empirical, rational thought. 

Positivity

Embrace the positive avoid the negative.

How Much to Trade – Fixed Fractional Position Sizing

Mechanical strategies for trading futures usually include fixed fractional position sizing to limit initial risk from any single trade.

Volatility Based Stops

Futures traders generally employ exit points in the form of volatility based stops for each position (established at initiation) determining when to cut a loss short and operating in conjunction with position sizing rules.

Trend Following Systems

A quantitative trend following system must define: when to enter a position; how much to buy; when to exit a position.

Global Macro

The Global Macro hedge fund strategy can be defined as dynamic global asset allocation.  Global Macro hedge fund managers have the ability to take positions in any instrument in any market throughout the world.

Invest or Gamble?

We are all looking to get rich quick. We are all looking for something for nothing. But few of us will succeed and even fewer will be able to retain the short-lived gains.

A Quantitative Approach to Cryptocurrency Investing

The large majority of start-up projects sink without trace. The occasional winner however can make up the losses and yield a profit on the portfolio.

8 Steps to Profitable Investment

8 Steps to Profitable Investment

A few Simple Investment Rules are All You Need.

A few Simple Investment Rules are All You Need.

Simple Investment Strategies

Investment is extremely simple. Wide diversification and the avoidance of cots and complexity is the way to go.

Depression – Rational Enquiry vs Emotional Wallowing

Depression can only be defeated by science and rational enquiry not airy faerie emotional wallowing such as is to be found in most useless self help books.

Fundamental Analysis – Expensive and Futile

Fundamental analysis of stock market investments is a futile and expensive waste of time and should be wholly replaced by quantitative analysis.

The Abolition of Suffering

Philosopher David Pearce has a message of overwhelming significance: The Abolition of Suffering can and will be achieved.

Where are the Customers’ Yachts?

Who thinks finance, stock broking and fund management are respectable professions dedicated to increasing the wealth of their customers?

Technical Analysis – Embarrassing Nonsense

Technical analysis is nothing less than embarrassing nonsense practiced by fools or knaves.

Trade as Seldom as Possible

If you want long term investment success, then trade as seldom as possible.

Profitable Stock Market Investment is Very Simple

Profitable investment is very simple and yet an entire industry has been spawned which cons the public into imagining the process is very complex.

The Absurdity of Land Ownership

How has it come to pass that a tiny handful own the vast majority of this tiny spaceship we call the Earth?

Poverty in an Infinite Universe?

The universe is infinite and contains infinite matter and yet we are still faced with overwhelming poverty and suffering on a global scale. How come?

Am I a Quale?

A quale is the singular form of the plural qualia.  Qualia are a linguistic attempt to describe the subjective experience of consciousness.

What am I?

The question “what am I” is the most important avenue any sentient being can enter. 

Dealing with Depression

If you can deal with depression at all you need to determine whether your life is causing your anxiety or whether it is your anxiety which is ruining your life.

Peace which the World Cannot Give?

Can we find peace in this world despite what the Book of Common Prayer says? 

Job Satisfaction and Happiness – Pigs’ Ears and Silk Purses

If you are not satisfied and fulfilled by your job it is a fair bet you are not happy.  Certainly not as happy as you could and should be.

Self-Help Gurus

Self help gurus are guaranteed fakes.  So are all other self anointed gurus.  Avoid them – run for your life and keep your purse locked.

Science and the Sublime

Will science provide what religion has failed to give us?  According to the “transhumanists” the answer is assuredly yes.

Happiness

Happiness is perhaps best described as the absence of unhappiness.

Don’t Go Down the Rabbit Hole

Suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes runs close by. Don’t follow it!

Has Iain M. Banks Sublimed?

The bald facts are that Ian Banks was a Scottish socialist and atheist and one of the finest writers and thinkers of our age.

Can Artificial Intelligence dream of electric sheep?

Physics has created the human mind; physics aided by the human mind can certainly create general artificial intelligence.

Dementia – A Carer’s Survival Guide

“Dementia” is simply an umbrella term for a vast and cruel range of hideous and debilitating symptoms.

Meditation is not Just for Christmas

Meditation is not or need not be any sort of religious devotion. But it must become a way of life if it is to be any help to you.

Right Honourable Gentlemen

There can hardly be a sight so little edifying as the Right Honourable Gentlemen of the House of Commons in full debate.

Trump – Vulgar or Venal?

President Donald Trump: is he bad or simply an extreme example of vulgarity and brash showmanship?

Is Jacob Rees-Mogg Walter the Softy?

Is Jacob Rees-Mogg Walter the Softy?

Depression and Determinism – can we Change our Mind?

Depression and determinism: can we influence our moods, can we “change our mind”?

War – Why do the Nations rage?

War has its origins in the very first animal life to evolve on earth. 

The Magician’s Nephew

The beauty of CS Lewis’ writing and the loveliness of Pauline Bayne’s illustrations.