• Jan 09, 2019
• Health and Wellness

Hidden Food Allergies Making You Sick: What Dr. Rau Wants You to Know

Chapter 7 of The Swiss Secret to Optimal Health might be the most unsettling chapter in the whole book. Because Dr. Rau is basically saying: you’re probably allergic to something you eat every single day, and you have no idea.

• Jan 09, 2019
• Book Reviews

Magellan's Later Years: Peter Lynch's Adventures at Scale

Book: Beating the Street by Peter Lynch with John Rothchild | ISBN: 978-0-671-75915-5

By mid-1983, Lynch owned 450 stocks. By fall, that number had doubled to 900. He had to be ready to tell 900 different stories to his colleagues in 90 seconds or less. Which meant he actually had to know all 900 stories.

• Jan 09, 2019
• Book Reviews

Systems Methodology: Holistic and Operational Thinking

This is post 9 of 23 in a series on Systems Thinking: Managing Chaos and Complexity by Jamshid Gharajedaghi (ISBN: 978-0-7506-7973-2).

• Jan 09, 2019
• software-engineering

The Agent in the Middle: Brokers (Chapter 7, Part 1)

The Broker: Your Agent in the Arena

If you aren’t trading for your own account on the floor, you’re using a broker. In Chapter 7, Larry Harris explains that brokers are more than just order-takers—they are the grease that keeps the wheels of the market turning.

• Jan 09, 2019
• finance

The Hedge Fund Book Introduction - What You Need to Know First

The introduction of The Hedge Fund Book starts with a pretty bold question. What if you could sit down with 30 hedge fund veterans and just ask them everything? What if someone spent over $80,000 hiring professionals with 7 to 30 years of experience to share their best advice?

• Jan 09, 2019
• finance

What Are Hedge Funds and How Do They Work? Strategies Explained

Chapter 1 gave us the history. Now in Chapter 2, Travers answers the big question: what actually is a hedge fund, and why would anyone put money into one?

• Jan 09, 2019
• Book Retelling

Atlas Shrugged Part I, Chapter 8: The John Galt Line - The Train Ride That Changed Everything

This chapter is one of those moments in a book where you can feel the author writing at full power. Every line of Chapter 8 builds toward a single scene: the first train running on the John Galt Line, across a bridge made of Rearden Metal. And honestly? It lands.

• Jan 08, 2019
• finance

Chapter 3 Part 3: Measuring PE Performance - IRR, Multiples and Why Benchmarks Are Tricky

So you want to know if a private equity fund is actually good? Turns out, that’s way harder than it sounds. There is no stock ticker refreshing every second. No public quarterly earnings call. You are stuck with imperfect tools and incomplete data. Welcome to Section 3.3 through 3.5 of Demaria’s book.

• Jan 08, 2019
• finance

Hedge Fund History: LTCM, Tiger Fund, and Modern Hedge Funds (Part 2)

In Part 1, we covered the earliest roots of hedge funds, from Japanese rice traders to Karl Karsten’s statistical forecasting and Benjamin Graham’s value-oriented approach. Now we get to the person who took all those ideas and built something that actually changed Wall Street forever.