Holiday Reading for Traders & Investors

By Stephen Hoad, CEO of The Stop Hunter   With summer holiday season fast approaching and the question that you keep asking yourself that just wont go away – no not will England go all the way in this years World Cup, but the more important question – ‘what books should I take with me to […] Read more »

How To Improve Your Mindset For Trading & Investing

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By Taylor Pearson, with an introduction by Simon Kerr of Enhance Consulting   Introduction This essay has been published on HFI (with permission) not because it mentions two familiar names/brands from the hedge fund industry (Ray Dalio and Bridgewater, and Peter Thiel of Clarium Capital). Rather, a number of constructions that are key to successful […] Read more »

Attaining Performance Excellence In Hedge Funds

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By Paul Berry   What could a portfolio manager, a neurosurgeon and a military fighter-pilot possibly have in common? Well, they all work in high-performance professions where competition to enter is intense, with few enjoying success. The jobs are highly demanding, often encroaching into one’s personal life and the consequences of failure are significant. Yet […] Read more »

Dopamine and Manager Selection

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Edited by Simon Kerr, Principal of Enhance Consulting   The Brain’s Rapid Responses – Dopamine and the Amygdala The brain has three basic responses in forming expectations of future outcomes. They all involve the dopamine system—a set of neural circuits. When these neurons become aware of something important nearby, they set off a series of […] Read more »

Intuition and Impulse in a Great Trader

By Stephen Bornstein, Principal of Wall Street Counsel What Makes Some Traders Stand Out Can Also Bring Them Down A great trader is one who has the uncanny ability to predict price action based on the behavior of other market participants, particularly other professional traders. Is that skill analytical or intuitive? For the past several […] Read more »

Ari Kiev and the Trader Trainers

By Simon Kerr, Publisher of HFI I’m sad to record that Ari Kiev died this week – you can find an obituary in The New York Times. Ari Kiev was a psychiatrist with interests in several areas including depression and suicide. He applied his knowledge and techniques to new fields including working with top tier […] Read more »