we know intuitively, anecdotally, that the indices of the world market move in and out of favor with SPY we know definitively that the degree of correlation varies based on market condition, and can change pretty quickly too this study looks at what happens if you had a pair trade between each of the main indices […]
Category: design
Traders Roundtable: six tangible benefits of reflective journaling
Image via Wikipedia Reflective journaling is the process of deliberately recording your thoughts and feelings and then analyzing them in a process called double loop learning. With reflective learning, we examine our feelings and responses and then we look at how we act upon this newfound knowledge improving our self awareness and self-consciousness. Reflective journaling, […]
Making learning fun
Image via Wikipedia In a lot of educational writing, it’s taken as a given that creating an atmosphere of fun in the classroom must inevitably lead to learning. It’s fair to ask what is the relationship between fun and learning, however from an evidential perspective. This analysis leads you to develop a working definition of […]
Excellent summary of forward thinking Army leaders
Image by Getty Images via @daylife The Best Defense (ricks.foreignpolicy.com) May 17, 2010 A General Covers An Army War Game By Lt. Gen. David Barno, U.S. Army (ret.), Best Defense chief Army correspondent The annual “Unified Quest” futures war game held recently at the Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, was pretty impressive — and […]
Traders Roundtable: Assessing the Market Condition
A friend of mine asked an important question about how to assess the condition of the market based on the length of time you intend to hold your typical trade. The challenge is to balance precision and usefulness, and to get the market condition system timing in tune with your trading style. My sense is […]
A system that relies on individual initiative
Image via Wikipedia I’m working in Army curriculum development, and I’m always amazed at how much the system relies on the initiative and knowledge of individuals working on their own to discover what the right answer is for the good of the Army The pace of changes is greater now than I have ever seen […]
Persistence vs Reframing
Image via Wikipedia I was thinking about the tension that I see between persistence and reframing. A lot of our formal management and leadership education suggests that we should continue to work our way through and around obstacles along the way in order to get to our objectives. Traditional problem-solving tells us that the path […]
complexity in the curriculum
Image via Wikipedia The college in-briefed the new Commander yesterday; From the dialogue emerged his 4 priorities: FYSA. LD&E executed its orientation briefing to LTG Caslen yesterday, and one slide briefly illustrated the following as the CG’s top four priorities: 1. Leader Development (sub-bullets below are not all-inclusive) – Develop and implement ILE 2010 – […]
Reflecting on wicked force management problems (Army)
My take on the problem with force management is that it has been treated as a complicated problem, suitable for central planning (PPBES) and not as a complex problem, rife with social & political context, in a dynamic state where the variables change parameters far faster than the planned decision cycles. Consequently, we never get […]
Systems dynamics meets the Afghan war via Powerpoint
It is becoming a common practice to laugh at that slide, but try on this thought experiment: what if someone made a slide of a zoom in on the surface of a semi-conductor chip? Wouldn’t that seem as incomprehensible and “foolish”? and yet by the slow process of developing knowledge we have become capable of extraordinary […]