There are many different useful definitions of the concept of volatility. For the purposes of this essay I just want to consider volatility in a non-technical way, and that is as the amount of variation in returns around the mean, or the average. In any bundle of returns from a trading system, you will always […]
Category: leadership
Profitable ETF Trading Strategies: three leadership questions for traders
I had an opportunity to conduct a two-hour interview with the executive director of the Center for Creative Leadership and explore their research into the field of emergent leadership. It is their opinion that modern leadership for conditions of uncertainty take on a different form than are conventional notions of leaders and leadership. Their insights […]
Europe hasn’t learned how to use tax cheating to get ahead from the masters
Here’s the news from Europe: economic slowdown is forcing people to not declare their earnings to reduce their taxes, and pass half the savings on to their customers. How quaint. The Euros see tax avoidance and tax cheating as an end to itelf. They havent figured out yet that this is simply a fast track […]
Governor Sibelius fits right in: a tax cheating Democrat, but I repeat myself
Democratic governor Sibelius of my state of Kansas fits right in with the Democratic leadership in Washington, having suddenly discovered that she owes thousands of dollars and inteerst in back taxes as part of a routine vetting of her tax records. At this rate she will be ready to slide over to Treasury if The […]
A thought experiment in leadership and identity
Here is a thought experiment to get your mental juices flowing Who am I? a multi-billion dollar enterprise with a long and distinguished history, filled with notable achievements, and some dismal failures have for held a position of international leadership for decades associated with a core function of any modern nation and economy provides products […]
Reflective learning and Self Talk
At our trading workshop this weekend, wr reviewed a numbver of what I consider to be milion dollar ideas: ideaswhich, over the course of a lifetime should produce a net value add greater than a million dollars in trading performance. While we were doing that in the middle of our assembled traders and institutional money […]
Geithner, the tax cheat, to select winners and losers
Either geithner was too stoopid to figure out how to pay his taxes, in ehich case he doesnt deserve to be Treasury Secretary and also deciding which businesses will win and lode or he was an intentional tax cheat, in which case he also doesnt deserve to be Treasury Secretary. Sen. Bob Corker (R., Tenn.), […]
Leadership in Complex Adaptive Systems
Team Obama is placing their bets on the idea of Leadership being responsible for results. The latest manifestation of this is in the call for the resignation of the CEO of GM, Rick Wagoner. The proposition is that Obama, from his vantage point of President, USA (CEO, USA?) is in a position to determine that […]
design thoughts
this whiteboard drawing supplements my previous posting on Design
4 Reflections on Design
4 Reflections on “Design” that are guiding my inquiry, inspired by thought provoking article and commentary at the School for Advanced Military Studies, which is engaged in deep think on the entire military decision making model: 1. The challenge of codifying artful design. I am trying to integrate these 2 statements from the article; It […]