i was remembering his analogy of the ship at sea in a storm, and that democracy is not well suited (his conclusion not mine)for voting in the right person to take the wheel, that what we really want is the best captain at that moment of storm, regardless of whatever other short comings he may […]
Category: education
Traders Roundtable: the eight “P’s” of trading success
At a recent weekend traders roundtable discussion, the topic of the keys to trading success came up. Experienced traders with different styles and different favorite markets and techniques identified what they thought were their best pieces of advice for novice traders. It was late in the day and adult beverages may have been served and […]
Profitable ETF trading strategies: the power of focus
I have a good friend who has been struggling for years to become a professional trader in the stock market. He is well-capitalized, smart, a quick learner, humble, energetic, self disciplined and passionate about his desire to be a full-time trader. And yet, after years and years of trial and error he has not made […]
Profitable ETF trading strategies: reflection theory and its implications on back testing
A simple explanation of reflection theory comes from the mathematical field of set theory and statistics. The theory can be made as complex as you want it to be, based on your interest in statistics and math, but the essence of it is intuitive and has some interesting insights for back testing your systems in […]
Profitable ETF trading strategies: the importance of the initial capital preservation stop
Chat rooms and discussion boards are filled with the talk of what to do about stops for active traders? This discussion can seems take on an almost religious fervor and I have never actually seen a single discussion thread where anyone’s mind was ever changed or consensus was ever reached. That probably relieves me of […]
You don’t have to take the pill, grandma, but we want to make sure you know your options
The American Thinker weighs on with some chilling evidence about the direction being suggested by the economic incentives of single payer public healthcare. All in the name of efficiency.
Design versus planning: what to do when you don’t know what to do
The scientific method has been responsible for the most extraordinary improvement in mankind’s standard of living. Since the Enlightenment and the Renaissance, it has been responsible for every major advance in human understanding and technology. The scientific method relies on a positivists worldview, which can be said to value certainty, control, objective reality, and planning. […]
Exploring the “n-dimensional” space of Narrative Inquiry
I always thought of storytelling as being of 1 kind; I am uncovering that there is something like an “n-dimensional space” of perspectives on story-telling. For instance, on just one dimension: scope. There is a hierarchy of how “complete and of what size” the story is that includes the following categories (arbitrary right now, and of […]
The Many Distinctions of Narrative Inquiry
While conducting a methodological review of narrative inquiry as a technique to create meaning from heaps of data, both qualitative and quantitative it quickly became apparent that narrative inquiry is a much broader and deeper and diversified field than I originally thought. It is such a rich area that it deserves some detail research in […]
Reflecting on world views and mixed methods designs of research
Image by Wonderlane via Flickr Comparison of Creswell’s continuum of research and Edmondson’s methodological fit chart. 1. Creswell describes a single continuum that connects qualitative and quantitative research at the endpoints with mixed methods in the middle. This model implies that there is a single dimension along which methodology can be arrayed. I don’t think […]