Why we should always stick to the choices we make. It’s all about consistency. Even in situations with odds no better than even. If you...

Why the numbers don’t lie when it comes to making high returns. Imagine you were given a million Euros, which used to be a lot of money....

Why travelling can teach you a lot about the markets. We were halfway to London when the captain gave an update from the flightdeck....

Why the grasshopper ate the market makers’ free lunch. When the world moved to electronic trading, there was much resistance. Mostly from...

Why trading can lead to baldness. The concept of betting on prices falling is not really that complicated to understand, so long as you...

Why hair care is better than quantitative analysis. When I first heard the term statistical arbitrage, I thought it was a joke. The kind...

Why September is a month to remember. Thankfully, we didn’t sell in May and go away. Global equities are up another 7% since then and...

Why we all need Justin Bieber to help us beat the markets. Everybody thinks they are better than average. Why else try anything? So, it...

Why it is not a question of if, but when, and what we are going to do about it. If something has gone up a lot, there is the possibility...

Why there can be only one number to rule them all. There comes a point in every relationship when things are not so nice. Couples argue,...

What are the big takeaways from a very strange year in the markets? It has been more than a year now that COVID-19 has taken over the...

Why you should never risk thy whole wad. People seem to always confuse trading and investing. Ultimately, it comes down to the same thing...

Why machines have taken over investment management. There is long, there is short, things either go up or down and you really have to...

How Reddit and Robinhood became like a swarm of locusts. The whole idea of speculating on prices falling seems wrong from the outset....

Why I will never win Wimbledon. It seems we have all turned into avid armchair traders during our time in lockdown. Online trading...

Why the measure of volatility on the S&P 500 is as important as ever. Any words that contain the letter “x” are quite rare and inherently...

Why machines are our best friends. What is the difference between an active or a systematic trading strategy? This question is probably...

Why trading is very different to investing. When we manage our wealth, we need to look beyond our current needs and to the next...

Why some people work in equities and others in fixed income. The first time I entered the building of one of the big investment banks in...

How risk-free trading was created and why it was too good to last. In the late eighties, we learned how to use computers to manage our...