The Importance of knowing your Behavioural Blindspots By David Hobart A behavioural blindspot often occurs when your actions are in conflict with your objectives. They are outside your conscious awareness (hence a blindspot) and due to this conflict, they lea... Read more

A few months ago we introduced our PsyQuation Score™ in a blog post showing how using our score as an allocation filter significantly outperformed some well known filters such as Omega and Sharpe ratio.    In this post we would like to amplify this message wit... Read more

Be – Do – Have: Your way out of a rut By David Hobart Many traders and portfolio managers experience prolonged periods of insanity throughout their careers. That is, doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different outcomes. The experience of being in... Read more

Trading with Grace By David Hobart   Grace. There are many definitions; a simple and common one is “elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion or action.” The origin of the word grace can be traced back through the centuries; my favourite comes from 1... Read more

About PsyQuation PsyQuation is a platform for identifying and developing trading talent. The platform provides traders with risk & behavioural robo-advice, the PSY Score™ for matching talent with capital, areas of focus for trader development, visual-risk... Read more

I did an interview back in November with Jon de Wet from Vesper Capital and forgot to post a link, you can check out the podcast over here. Read more

By David Hobart, Director, PsyQuation Consulting. Having drawdowns is part of the trading business. They are rarely pleasant, but with the right risk management approach, they can be experienced without unnecessary discomfort. There are many different sc... Read more

By David Hobart, Director, PsyQuation Consulting. Quite often traders lose money in the markets simply because they have unrealistic expectations about their likely returns. Even the best trading systems and strategies if not given adequate time and space to... Read more

By David Hobart, Director, PsyQuation Consulting. Trading consistently is not about prediction. Rather, it is about identifying possible outcomes, assigning probabilities to them, and then structuring bets around those probabilities. Having a process which co... Read more

By David Hobart, Director, PsyQuation Consulting. Over the years, I have worked with many traders. Most traders experience periods of brilliance, but few are able to replicate their successes consistently over time. This was especially the case inside the b... Read more