Trading and Exchanges Chapter 8: Why People Actually Trade (Part 1)
Chapter 8 opens Part II of the book, and it asks one of those questions that sounds obvious until you actually try to answer it: why do people trade?
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Yield Curve Curvature, Butterflies and Structured Products
This is a retelling of Chapter 6 (Part 2) from “Trading the Fixed Income, Inflation and Credit Markets: A Relative Value Guide” by Neil C. Schofield and Troy Bowler (Wiley, 2011, ISBN: 978-0-470-74229-7).
Atlas Shrugged Part III, Chapter 5: Their Brothers' Keepers - The Collapse Accelerates and Dagny Finds John Galt
A copper wire breaks in California. A thin rain has been falling since midnight. The wire had been carrying more weather and more years than it was designed to handle. One last raindrop forms on the curve, hangs there gathering weight, and pulls the wire down with it.
Asking the Right Questions About Investment Returns
Book: Real Estate by the Numbers | Authors: J Scott and Dave Meyer | Chapters: 14-15
← Real Estate Tax Basics for Investors | ROI, Equity Multiplier, Cap Rate, and Cash-on-Cash Return →
Bridging the Gap: From Vision to Action With Systems Thinking
You know where you are. You know where you want to be. Now what?
Chapter 10 of Systems Thinking for Social Change by David Peter Stroh tackles the hardest part of any change effort: actually getting from here to there. This is Stage 4 of the applied systems thinking process. You have faced current reality. You have made a conscious choice about where you want to go. Now you need to bridge the gap.
Dynamic Asset Allocation - A Behavioral Approach
So you picked your ideal portfolio. Good stocks, some bonds, maybe real estate. Everything is balanced perfectly. Now what? Do you just sit there and never touch it again?
Final Thoughts on Shortfall: What We Forgot About American Banking
So that’s Shortfall. A book about a family scandal that turned into something much bigger.
Let me give you my honest take.
Hedge Fund Analysis Book Retelling: Final Thoughts and Key Takeaways
And that’s a wrap on “Hedge Fund Analysis” by Frank J. Travers.
Over the past 20 posts, we went through the entire book, from the history of hedge funds all the way to the final scoring model. Here’s what I think you should take away from all of this.
How REITs Play a Role in Real Estate Development
So we’ve talked a lot about investing in REITs as a way to earn passive income. But have you ever wondered what happens on the other side? Like, how do these buildings actually get built, and what role do REITs play in making that happen? Chapter 10 of Mike Hartley’s book breaks this down, and it’s pretty interesting stuff.
Investing Psychology Chapter 5 Part 2: Corporate Bias, IPOs, and Hidden Trading Costs
We continue with the second half of Chapter 5 from Tim Richards’ “Investing Psychology.” If Part 1 was about how the professional investing industry takes your money, Part 2 is about how corporations and your own trading habits finish the job.