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Euler
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Inspired by the response to the "Inside Job" thread maybe we can have a thread of interesting things to watch. Especially as most of it is on line now.
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Euler
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I just watched: -

Marcus du Sautoy reveals a hidden numerical code that underpins all nature. He reveals how significant numbers appear throughout the natural world and govern the planet.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... e_Numbers/
Iron
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Are there certain numbers that crop up year after year when you analyse the Betfair markets?

In the financial markets, many people think that Fibonacci numbers can be used in trading. I'm sceptical that something as chaotic as a market can be forecast with any mathematic precision. However, as market movements are caused by collective human behaviour, which is (to a point) predictable, I can't be sure that there's nothing in it...

Jeff
Euler wrote:I just watched: -

Marcus du Sautoy reveals a hidden numerical code that underpins all nature. He reveals how significant numbers appear throughout the natural world and govern the planet.
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Euler wrote:I just watched: -

Marcus du Sautoy reveals a hidden numerical code that underpins all nature. He reveals how significant numbers appear throughout the natural world and govern the planet.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... e_Numbers/
Is that the one that talks about the golden ratio??
I built my patio based on that! ..I have also used 1.618 in my excel bots!

For anyone who thinks i've lost my marbles..here is an explanation:-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio

I wish he had been my maths teacher at school! (think he has a book out too??)
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I found this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HpUA0xW2aM earlier in the week.

It's a Larry Williams presentation on trading from a few years ago. Don't be put off by the naff opening credits, it's good. There's a slight problem early in part 6 where it goes blank for a bit but it does restart.
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gutuami
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Bill Williams - Chaos: The New Map For Traders

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6hs5eGdSf8
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I'd recommend the second edition of Bill Williams's book Trading Chaos - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Trading-Chaos-T ... 0471463086.

The authors are even willing to answer questions by email (although don't make the mistake I made, and ask about other approaches to trading - it doesn't go down well! :lol: ).

Jeff

PS Here's a nice trading quote from Bill Williams - 'Want what the market wants'.
gutuami wrote:Bill Williams - Chaos: The New Map For Traders

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6hs5eGdSf8
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Dabbla
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Hustle 3x3 Part 1 of 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6bGYCr0T2g
There's a new grifter in town and he's in search of a great crew. This stranger turns out to be the grandson of the legendary 19th Century American con artist James Whittaker Wright (JW1), who made a fortune flogging fake gold mines on the stock market by using Cornfoots Merchant Bank.

When JW1's fortune became too much for the bank, they turned on him and left him to die penniless. His grandson, James Whittaker Wright III - JW3 (played by Richard Chamberlain) has come to avenge his death.

Initially wary, the Hustle crew accept the challenge - bringing down a greedy bank and outwitting a fellow grifter is far too tempting. With the gang's expertise, they're going to take Quenton (played by Stephen Campbell Moore) and Charles Cornfoot (played by Terence Harvey) down.

Danny poses as a brash city entrepreneur eager to float his mining company on the stock market, whilst Stacie plays a market analyst working on the inside. Having agreed to set up the flotation, the Cornfoots employ a Dutch oil consultant (Ash) to fuel rumours about the company's impending success and start selling shares to JW3 and Albert, their newly found investors. Danny irritates the Cornfoots to the point of no return - they turn sour and plot his downfall. Fully prepared, the team up their game, but whilst their attention is focussed on the marks, they forget just how devious JW3 is.

He's sure to double cross them; it's not a matter of if, but when. After all, the greatest con of all is to con another grifter.

I have added this because I think I will teach users about market manipulation.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1268204/

Helps you put things into perspective ;)
andyfuller
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Bomb Squad on Iplayer, second part is on BBC 1 tonight - worth a watch as it puts thing into perspective.
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This guy is awesome at dancing (also a great tune):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXO-jKks ... ture=share
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This is sports Gambling big time!! what a great accent he has too.....presenting Billy Walker
Groovy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6FAUQ6S ... detailpage
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Ian Hislop: When Bankers Were Good
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... Were_Good/

'watched this last night and it was good.
Ian Hislop presents an entertaining and provocative film about the colourful Victorian financiers whose spectacular philanthropy shows that banking wasn't always associated with greed or self-serving financial recklessness.

Victorian bankers achieved wealth on a scale never envisaged by previous generations, but many of them were far from comfortable about their new-found riches, which caused them intense soul-searching amidst furious national debate about the moral purpose of money and its potential to corrupt.

Like so many other Victorian bankers, Samuel Gurney was a Quaker. Banking and its rewards seemed at odds with a faith that valued modest simplicity, but Gurney's wealth helped the work of his sister, prison reformer Elizabeth Fry, who is immortalised on today's five-pound note.

Self-made millionaire George Peabody was a merchant banker who made an enormous donation to London housing. 150 years on, his housing estates still provide accommodation to 50,000 Londoners.

Angela Burdett-Coutts became an overnight celebrity after she inherited the enormous Coutts fortune. With her love of small dogs and her vast stash, she could have been the Paris Hilton of her day. Instead, she went on to become a great philanthropist.

Perhaps the richest of them all was Natty Rothschild, who tried not just to ensure that his personal wealth did good, but that his bank's did too.

Deploying his customary mix of light touch and big ideas, Ian champions these extraordinary and generous individuals. Along the way, he meets Dr Giles Fraser, until his recent, dramatic resignation canon chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral, chairman of the FSA Lord Turner, philanthropic financier the current Lord Rothschild, historian A N Wilson and chief rabbi Lord Sacks.
Iron
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Looks interesting:

Your Money and How They Spend It - BBC 2, 9 PM, Wed 23rd Nov

Nick Robinson runs a shrewd rule over the UK’s national accounts, breaking down the maths and the politics into bite-sized chunks. He sails a dinghy, dances a waltz with pensioners, marches with Durham miners’ bands, and so on – anything to distract us from the fact that this is really a programme about numbers.

But in the end, it’s the numbers that keep hitting you over the head: did you know about the hi-tech regional fire control centres that were built at a cost of £469 million but stand empty? Or the NHS IT project – a colossal £6 billion over budget, and counting?

About this programme

Part one of two. Nick Robinson explores how governments collect and spend tax money. He explores who receives what funding and why, investigates whether any of the money is wasted and finds out about the pressure politicians are constantly under to authorise further spending, as well as the difficulties they face in resisting. Includes interviews with senior Westminster figures and voters from around Britain.
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