Claude Shannon was an American mathematician, cryptographer, engineer and computer scientist who lived in the 20th century and died in 2001 aged 84. Sometime in the 1960s at MIT he came to a theory of rebalancing that is now called Shannon’s Demon. I saw it randomly already a few years ago on the web and […]
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Tune out the noise
I went through a meditation course and took notes of my progress for several weeks in 2019, which taught me to look at myself, my actions and feelings from aside as a separate person. It made me aware of so many emotional states I was experiencing while making trading decisions or placing orders. When I […]
The past is not a good guide to make predictions about the future because the future will be different. One should take as little as possible but as much as necessary from a backtest. A backtest shows how an idea would have worked out in the past if one followed a specific set of rules. […]
Happy New Year! The stock market is not a friendly place, where everyone is guaranteed to make money by having exposure in securities. It’s a highly competitive field, where the strongest survive. It’s a place, where dreams are crushed and hope can be lost. That’s why it takes mental fortitude and rigid risk management to […]
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Market update and drawdowns
I was feeling creative and recorded a video update about the current thoughts. Hope you enjoy this format!