Via a comment on some blog : “Trading isn’t about profit and loss. It’s about self-actualization. There are many ways to fulfill your potential. We happen to choose trading. And that’s not a small thing. Success and failure in this arena is beyond our control, and what’s more, it can be objectively measured, and I think that is why trading failures cause so much cognitive dissonance. We suffer so much when we lose not because we can’t handle being wrong, but because every defeat moves us one step farther away from self-actualization.

Determining whether a variable is deterministic or stochastic has been my biggest problem till date and sadly, every time I have failed in classifying . The problem arises when the variable morphs from deterministic to stochastic and back to deterministic and I have no clue how to go about it. I think the best approach that I am following now is : Why give a damn :) Let it be any variable .

Thanks TP for sending me a link about this company. Went through The Need for a New Analytic Architecture Sounds very interesting!! and exciting!!

I have always been fascinated by ants. Infact I took some time out and via kathalaya told a story to 4th class kids about ants..Here is an interesting post on swarm intelligence in NYT Link :From Ants to People, an Instinct to Swarm

How to spot the spike before the earnings announcement. Vixandmore has a detailed article