Recent content by Muddy Farmer

"Love's Trading's a game. Wanna play?" - Taylor Swift

Sometimes what we see is not really there... http://www.livescience.com/28911-7-ways-to-trick-your-brain.html

Video of a massive starling flock turning and twisting over a river in Ireland has gone viral, and with good reason. Flocking starlings are one of nature’s most extraordinary sights: Just a few hundred birds moving as one is enough to convey a sense of suspended reality, and the flock filmed...

MAESTRO, you're going to love this: Flocking Behaviour Improves Performance Of Financial Traders Day traders tend to coordinate their behaviour in the same way that cicadas synchronise their chirping. http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27222/

MAESTRO and others might find this video interesting. Autonomous Flying Robots Flock Like Birds http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/09/flocking-robots/

nysestocks, Can you please talk some more about the so-called strange people you met?

nysestocks, Breathtakingly brilliant video. Here's a similar one you'd appreciate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USlnfTGlhXc&feature=related "Be Water, My Friend." - Bruce Lee.

Money can't buy humility and class.

Reading this thread is almost as much fun as talking to my Gann-trader friend. BLASH = buy low and sell high SHABL = sell high and buy low.

ARealGannTrader, Can you please explain TTTA? It's screwing with my head. Cheers.

C'mon guys. Isn't it blaringly obvious why they were phoning in their orders? Lex van Dam was taking the other side! If newbies always lose by doing the wrong thing, then you can make money by betting against them. This was the first thing that jumped out at me the moment the plot was...

Anything by N.N. Taleb.

Most marriages are a crappy deal. Remember this legendary Craig's List exchange? Worth reading by anyone considering marriage proposals. http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/sex/a/gold_digger.htm

This whole mess would have been avoided if hedge funds simply lived up to their names and HEDGED. The irony of this is lost on many. Hedge funds were originally conceived to avoid/mitigate losses. The best brains were hired - and like LTCM they imploded. You couldn't make it up.