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Hitting The Century: It’s Pretty Panties Time..! (I)

20 Wednesday Jun 2012

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Oh Gawd, when will I learn..?! Last time ’round, the ‘pretty panties‘ phrase grabbed a whole new wave of (doubly) frustrated web searchers & readers. Who knew? But perverts¹ are people too! A majority even have jobs, I suspect. And many of these hand shandy artists are probably good savers (limited range of interests, they stay home a lot…). They might just appreciate some investing insight! In fact, gentlemen, we can rebuild them. With their powers of concentration, and attention to detail, surely they’d make excellent value investors?! My dear mother would be so proud if I converted even one of these bishop buffers…

So we’ve reached Post 100 – time to show off my pretty panties a little?! This blog’s mostly been about my stock picks and, more recently, I’ve stepped back to write more about macro perspectives. What’s perhaps been missing, as I’ve noticed with many other blogs, is a closer look at portfolio construction, allocation and metrics. This is a big oversight on my part – if you’re a regular reader, you already know this aspect of investing is actually v important to me!

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No, I’m Not a Trader…I’m an Investor!

11 Wednesday Jan 2012

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foreign exchange trading, poker player, trader

i) If somebody’s such a great trader, and/or has such a great trading system, why on earth are they teaching or selling you something?!

ii) You’ll gain as much knowledge from a decent trading book/manual, vs. a trading course, far more quickly and at less than 1% of the cost.

iii) Trading ‘education’ (vs. experience) has never been useful in getting a trading job, although having an MBA will probably help these days.

iv) Being smart’s not that relevant to being a good trader.

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