Sunday, 31 January 2016

Breaking the trading routine

19:11 Posted by The Thalesians (@thalesians) No comments
Routine. The drudgery. The predictability. The sheer monotony. In all my years, I can't recall reading the words, "I dream of routine". No one enjoys the sense that everything they do is routine. However, a modicum of routine helps to give life at least some structure. Those occasions when we break...

Saturday, 16 January 2016

Mitigating Risk, Managing Uncertainty

16:21 Posted by The Thalesians (@thalesians) No comments
Happy new year! If you're in markets, the new year has been anything but happy. The markets have greeted the new year with more than a modicum of scepticism. Crude oil has continued to trade very poorly. Equities have sold off significantly since the start of the year, mirroring the behaviour of...

Saturday, 9 January 2016

I haven't got the foggiest data

16:46 Posted by The Thalesians (@thalesians) 3 comments
The first full week of the year has passed. Christmas decorations have come down. Lazy morning starts are fading from memory. In their place, has come the hectic tempo of early morning commutes to work, the flip of 2015 to 2016 in the calendar, that feeling of starting all over again. In markets,...