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megarain
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I thought it was interesting, he put the value of planet earth, at £400 trillion.

I suppose one day, planets might be bought and sold, on planetsforsale.com (actually a website)

But yeah, hes my hero.


((( I seem to recall, that u could once buy tracts of land under the north sea -- for little money really, hoping a big Petroleum company, would find oil nearby, and offer u a buy-out )))

Might have longer to wait, if u buy Planet Euler k112
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I didn't realise that Thorp outed Madoff waaaaaaaaay before the SEC did. Seems all the warning signs were there but people ended up believing each other than the 'expert'.
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I'm halfway through https://www.amazon.com/Undoing-Project- ... 0393254593

So far it's ok without being brilliant. 7/10 thus fa. I like the Michael Lewis style of writing. (I've read Kahnamen's book and thought this might be interesting).
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Haven't finished it yet, but Perfect Bet by Adam Kucharski is very entertaining. About beating roulette, lottery schemes, probabilities. Betfair is mentioned as well.
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I would love read about Fortunes Formula by Poundstone

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I googled Trading in the zone and Mark douglas two books mentioned are in PDF at the following. Not sure if its ok to download them though???
http://forexbrokersaz.com/za/books/
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grindhog wrote:
Mon May 29, 2017 12:58 am
I googled Trading in the zone and Mark douglas two books mentioned are in PDF at the following. Not sure if its ok to download them though???
http://forexbrokersaz.com/za/books/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuvbihP3i6k

If anyone wants to just listen to 'Trading in the Zone', it has been placed on YouTube
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brian tracey . the power of self discipline i can recommend :D
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I've just ordered Mastering Tennis Trading by Daniel Weston, I would imagine a few people on this site have read it but not seen any reviews on here about it. He has made some posts on Peters blog, and I think at one time you could get a copy of it from BA when you took out a subscription.

What did people think of it, there were only a few comments on Amazon UK (not looked at the US site) but they seemed fairly positive.
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He's a contributor to this forum, or at least he used to be
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I thought it was v well written, and had some angles etc.

Never got round to implementing - but, wouldnt blame the book.
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Recently read "The Brothers Karamazov" by Dostoevsky. Probably the greatest novel I have ever read. Ivan's rationale for posing there is no god is conclusive - what possible reason is there for children to suffer. His follow on discussion of the return and trial of Jesus in the Spanish Inquisition is so brilliant I couldn't sleep after I read it and thought about little else for days. Finally Ivan's fever dream meeting with the devil sealed the deal for me that this is the greatest novel I have read.

I've also read the Age of Genius by A C Grayling on the birth of the modern mind in the 17th century. Once you get past the chapters on the 30 years war it's not a bad book.

Finally I'm most of the way through F A Hayek's The Road to Serfdom. Sensational book. More important than ever, with Corbyn running around proposing a reversion to old style socialism. News flash to every budding young socialist- the experiment was done, the findings are in. Go and watch any documentary on the fall of the Berlin Wall. Turn the sound down. East Berlin had the Trabi, small apartments, bans on freedom of movement and a secret police getting your wife and kids to report on your activities. You couldn't choose your job. The State came first and the individual was irrelevant. West Germans drove BMWs, could holiday abroad, choose their own profession and the individual was paramount. Then turn the television off, read this book and then read Orwell's animal farm. Individual rights must always come first, capitalism guarantees freedom. Socialism guarantees totalitarianism, no freedom and a frog march to the hangman. All versions of socialism, Marxist/Leninist and National Socialsim. The Nazis were socialists too. Please don't let us repeat history and impoverish the nation. Equal society - doesn't exist. Endeavour to create equal opportunity, but minimise the role of the state and recognise even if we all get to go to school not everyone has the same skills, intelligence, endeavour, grit. If you aim for an equal society you enslave the many for benefit of the few. Commissar Jeremy wants your society. Don't let him have it.
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I finally finished the audio reading of Predictably irrational from Dan Ariely. Recommended.
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Sounds interesting. Have you tried The Marshmallow Test by Walter Mischel?
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I recently read The Year of the Hare by by Arto Paasilinna, published in 1975.

A tremendous novel of escapism. Thoroughly enjoyable.
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