In trading, you have to risk something to make something. No risk No return, it's that simple. I will go into the statistics of this concept when I describe Myth 7 in my blog series. However, I want to make a wild suggestion, even by my standards... Read more

The internet is full of statements by so called experts. In this series called Myth Busting we take a look at a number of commonly held beliefs in the market place and query our database to see whether these statements/beliefs are FACT or FICTION.   Psy... Read more

Thrashing I am currently experiencing a significant increase in the number of tasks I am responsible for. I am also spending a lot of time contemplating computer load design. Computers multitask through a process called "threading". Think of a juggler tossing... Read more

Dacher Keltner, a psychology professor at UC Berkeley, after years of lab and field experiments found. Subjects under the influence of power, in studies spanning two decades, acted as if they had suffered a traumatic brain injury—becoming more impulsive, les... Read more

"We made it less random to make it feel more random," said Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple. Jobs was talking about the shuffle feature on the iPod. When they launched that feature the algorithm was completely random, but people started saying that they noticed ce... Read more

My wife a psychology major recently gave me a wonderful idea. She asked me if PsyQuation had done much research in the field of weather related mood and its affect on trading performance. The question immediately triggered the recall of some research I had d... Read more

A hat tip to friend Denise Shul, a leading neuro scientist and trading coach in New York, for pointing out a recent academic research paper which I will be commenting on in this letter. I am sure we can all agree that when we buy something for say $10, we are... Read more

How to deal with too much information is always a challenge for traders. This week I attended a lunchtime lecture by visiting Oxford mathematician Dr Shaun Martin who is applying his knowledge in the field of Applied Cognitive Science, I was keen to get more ... Read more

In the lead up to the beta launch on the 20th May we were all working long hours. I personally never slept much, and I suspected it would only be a matter of time before I got sick. As most of you know when a man gets sick it is no ordinary flu (especially m... Read more

You have been hearing a lot about the PsyQuation Alert system. As we are still a couple of months away from launch (May) it is a good time to start introducing you to the flow of logic behind our alert architecture. The key point here is that this diagram repr... Read more