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Month: April 2018

Seeking Consciousness

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

Brain, Consciousness, Mood, Personality, Qualia

Positivity

Embrace the positive avoid the negative.

Depression, Determinism, Investment, Mood, Negativity, Positivity, Stock Market, Trading

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.

Commodties, Futures, Position Sizing, Trading, Trading Systems

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.

Algorithm, Commodties, Futures, Stock Market, Trading, Trading Systems, Trend Following

Trend Following Systems

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

Futures, Gambling, Stock Market, Trend Following

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.

Futures, Global Macro, Stock Market, Trend Following

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.

Gambling, Probability, Stock Market, Trading
Cryptocurrency x Multiples - Price on Last Traded Date divided by First Traded Date

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.

Cryptocurrency, ICOs
Harriman House New Investing Rules 1

8 Steps to Profitable Investment

8 Steps to Profitable Investment

Index Trackers, Investment, Simple Investing Rules, Stock Market
Harriman's New Book of Investing Rules

A few Simple Investment Rules are All You Need.

A few Simple Investment Rules are All You Need.

Index Trackers, Simple Investing Rules, Stock Market
Investing Is Simple

Simple Investment Strategies

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

Index Trackers, Investment, Stock Market

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.

Depression, Free Will, Magic, Qualia

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.

Investment, Stock Market, Technical Analsysis

The Abolition of Suffering

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

Consciousness, Depression, Sentience, Suffering

Where are the Customers’ Yachts?

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

Exchange Traded Funds, Stock Market, Trading

Technical Analysis – Embarrassing Nonsense

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

Charts, Stock Market, Technical Analsysis

Trade as Seldom as Possible

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

Investment, Stock Market, Trading, Wall Street
Harriman's New Book of Investing Rules

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.

Exchange Traded Funds, Index Trackers, Stock Market

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?

Equality, Ethnic Cleansing, Greed, Robber Barons, Violence

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?

Capitalism, Economics, Greed, Monopoly, Poverty

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.

Brain, Feelings, Mood, Neuroscience, Qualia

What am I?

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

Consciousness, Mind, Qualia, reality

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.

Depression, Happiness, Mood

Peace which the World Cannot Give?

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

Book of Common Prayer, Depression, Happiness, Mood, Peace

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.

Depression, Happiness, Science, Self Knowledge

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.

Books, Courses, Depression, guru, self-help, snakeoil salesman

Science and the Sublime

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

Artificial Intelligence, Happiness, Sublime, Transcendence

Happiness

Happiness is perhaps best described as the absence of unhappiness.

Depression, emotion, Happiness, meaning
The White Rabbit

Don’t Go Down the Rabbit Hole

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

Faerie Story, Fulfillment, Happiness

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.

Artificial Intelligence, Magic, Post Physical, Science Fiction, Sublime, Transcendence

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.

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.

care, dementia, elderly

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.

Christmas, Meditation, Temple, Tokyo, Zen

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.

Anger, Politicians, Violence, War

Trump – Vulgar or Venal?

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

Republican, Trump

Is Jacob Rees-Mogg Walter the Softy?

Is Jacob Rees-Mogg Walter the Softy?

Rees-Mogg, Tory, Whig

Depression and Determinism – can we Change our Mind?

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

Depression, Determinism, Free Will

War – Why do the Nations rage?

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

Violence, War

The Magician’s Nephew

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

Faerie Story, Magic, Narnia

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