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TRADING SARDINES
By Mike Hart
Certain souls become passionate about trading. Market dynamics fill them with adrenalin, feed their competitive urges and sometimes pad their bank accounts. They’re glued to their screens, searching for an edge, trying to take home a profit and hoping to avoid a loss.
The game is pure and simply fascinating. Like life itself, the markets blend highs and lows, ups and downs, achievements and failures. For some, trading becomes a life’s work, a rewarding profession shared with other professionals.
Through tens of thousands of market positions and uncountable hours of analysis, they develop relationships with other traders that become part of a remarkable life story. Trading may not provide a pathway to enlightenment, but...
Books
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Data Mining Diversity. Caution: May Contain Lies.
|Either through luck or subterfuge, stats can “prove” a thesis that’s simply not true as illustrated in this behind-the-scenes look at how a retail investment fund was inappropriately marketed to… -
The Luckbox Bookshelf
By Luckbox
|New and not-so-new books that captured our attention this month The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power By Shoshana Zuboff… -
Take Back Control of Your Data
By Luckbox
|The surveillance economy robs you of valuable personal information. Don’t stand for it! Follow these steps to fight back. Devices Choose ‘dumb’ devices over ‘smart’ ones whenever possible. A smart… -
The Luckbox Bookshelf
|New and not-so-new books that captured our attention this month Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts By Annie Duke As a poker champion,… -
The Serendipity Mindset
By Ed McKinley
|Luck? It’s all in your head. In his book The Serendipity Mindset: The Art and Science of Creating Good Luck, author Christian Busch differentiates between what he calls blind luck… -
The Luckbox Bookshelf
By Luckbox
|Exploring space without leaving home Far too often, book reviews drive away readers. But reviews present just one stranger’s view, and taking them to heart leaves great books undiscovered. The… -
The Luckbox Bookshelf
By Yesi D
|New and not-so-new books that captured our attention this month Far too often, book reviews drive away readers. But reviews present just one stranger’s view, and taking them to heart… -
The Luckbox Bookshelf
By Ed McKinley
|What we are reading, and why The Last Taxi Driver By Lee Durkee Lee Durkee’s novels draw upon his own hip but hardscrabble life, combining the working-class realism of Charles Bukowski… -
ATLAS OBSCURA
By Jeff Joseph
|Pandemics and travel bans are no match for Atlas Obscura: The Second Edition by Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton. But that’s no surprise. The first edition, published in… -
How to Be a Conscious Eater
By Yesi D
|When it comes to what people should eat, confusion reigns. One day, coffee can cause cancer—the next, it’s the key to a long life. One day, something else will be… -
Hate Inc.
By Jeff Joseph
|Matt Taibbi—an author and Rolling Stone political writer who’s sometimes pegged as a spiritual heir to Hunter S. Thompson—has scored again with his latest book, Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media… -
Do Dice Play God?
By Mike Hart
|Professional traders dwell in a complex landscape of uncertainty, probability assessment, decision-making and risk. They also wield powerful digital trading capabilities unimaginable only a few decades ago. It’s no longer… -
The Day it Finally Happens
By Jeff Joseph
|This forward-focused issue of luckbox is brimming with expert advice calculated to help readers place their bets on what will unfold in the future—but at what odds? Have no fear.… -
Twenty-Six Words …
By Jeff Joseph
|In his latest book, The Twenty-Six Words that Created the Internet, Jeff Kosseff, a professor of cybersecurity law in the U.S. Naval Academy’s Cyber Science Department, examines the implications of… -
AlphaBrain
By Mike Hart
|This book on the process-driven approach to decision-making is an essential addition to any active investor’s library.