What is Money Management?
For a speculative investor, there are two aspects to optimizing a trading strategy. The first and most important goal of a trader is to achieve a positive expected risk-adjusted return. Once this has been achieved, the trader needs to know what percentage of his capital to risk on each trade. The underlying principals of money management apply to both gambling and trading, and were originally developed for the former.
eToro
Online platform eToro is opening up the complex world of foreign exchange trading to the masses through a simple and social user interface - but is this democratization of currency speculation good for the market?
Much like online prediction markets, eToro makes trading easy and fun, with leaderboards, discussion threads, and neat visualizations, but the truth is that the FX market is not fun and games. Participants are not betting with fake cash on who will win the World Cup in the pursuit of prizes, but rather are speculating on the currencies of real countries. The FX market serves a very important purpose: to facilitate transactions worldwide in all currencies. A collapse in currency can have very a real impact on individuals who never have even heard of the FX market and certainly never chose to gamble their future on it (ask the people of Malaysia or Thailand in 1997).
Time Lapse of a Night Run Down the Houston Ship Channel

A time lapse video made by setting a camera to take photos at six second intervals during a trip outbound on the Houston Ship Channel. I used Quicktime to assemble over 2000 individual photos into a 3 minute movie representing an actual time of over 3 1/2 hours. The ship was only moving at 5-6 knots for the first half of the trip and up to 10 knots in the open areas away from the docks. The journey begins just below the Port of Houston turning basin at the end of the channel and continues down to Morgan’s Point at the head of Galveston Bay. We still had 32 miles to go to get out to the pilot station in the Gulf of Mexico at that point. The ship is a Panamax tanker 600 feet long by 106 feet wide.
A Transumer Manifesto
The manifesto says that ownership is a last resort, a tradeoff, always looks better in hindsight and experiences provide more lasting happiness than material possessions. What do you you think?
Posted: July 2nd, 2010
at 12:47am by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: myninjaplease,life,too good to be true,green,business,philosophy,trade
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What Now? : The Imprecise and Disagreeable Aesthetics of Remix
At first I had considered him to be as singular as the phoenix of rhetorical praise; after frequenting his pages a bit, I came to think I could recognize his voice, or his practices, in texts from diverse literatures and periods. I shall record a few of these here. -ABorges, 'Kafka and His Precursors'
Posted: June 28th, 2010
at 10:58pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: myninjaplease,music,life,art,web,film,photo,design,"ninja",internets,trade,trademark & copyright,open source
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Bear Stearns’ CEO Joint Venture
WSJ printed a bad article at a bad time late 2007 about Bear Stearns’ CEO smoking dro in the bathroom while playing at a bridge tournament in Tennessee that lit the house of cards on fire… he then broke a deal to never be out of town at the same tourney at the same time of a soon to be fired exec….
Posted: June 19th, 2010
at 8:09pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: drogas,games,et cetera,trade
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The Machine Thinks for Itself
High-volume trades are being made in microseconds by algos or algorithms - self-learning monsters in the market are changing the way investors perceive penny profits.
DIY: USB Business Card
Posted: June 16th, 2010
at 9:41pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: computers,too good to be true,weaponry,design,"ninja",diy,trade
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How to Afford Anything
Extensive guide from Ken Rockwell (2008)
Posted: June 9th, 2010
at 7:24pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: hood status,myninjaplease,life,too good to be true,web,home,business,mnp is for the children,weaponry,grub,real life news,9th dan,"ninja",diy,health,internets,philosophy,trade
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