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  Enhancing Trader Performance Dan Gable, one of the great competitors in the history of sport. To say that he’s an expert performer is a considerable understatement. As a high school wrestler, he won his state championship three times and was undefeated in 64 consecutive matches. He proceeded to win 117 consecutive matches at Iowa State University and twice won the national championship. He was an Olympic gold medalist, outscoring his opponents 130–1 in his final 21 qualification and Olympic matches. As a wrestling coach for the University of Iowa, his teams went 355–21–5, yielding 45 national champions. In his book "A Season on the Mat," Nolan Zavoral provides a simple assessment of Gable: “Nobody trained harder.” Gable was known to practice so hard that he would literally have to crawl to exit the wrestling room. Often, while crawling, he would find a second wind and continue training. Trading is a performance discipline and trading performance can be cultivated through th...

  Meditaciones Marco Aurelio Antonino Augusto El soportar las fatigas y tener pocas necesidades; el trabajo con esfuerzo personal y la abstención de excesivas tareas, y la desfavorable acogida a la calumnia. El no haber dado nunca la impresión de cólera ni de ninguna otra pasión, antes bien, el ser el menos afectado por las pasiones y a la vez el que ama más entrañablemente a los hombres; el elogio, sin estridencias; el saber polifacético, sin alardes. La aversión a criticar; el no reprender con injurias a los que han proferido un barbarismo. No rechazar de este modo sistemáticamente las obligaciones que imponen las relaciones sociales, pretextando excesivas ocupaciones. El dominio de sí mismo y no dejarse arrastrar por nada; el buen ánimo en todas las circunstancias y especialmente en las enfermedades. El cuidado moderado del propio cuerpo, no como quien ama la vida, ni con coquetería ni tampoco negligentemente, sino de manera que, gracias a su cuidado personal, en contadísimas oc...

  The best executives are made, not born. They absorb information, study their own experiences, learn from their mistakes, and evolve. I had incredible teachers. My parents taught me the values of honesty, common decency, and achievement, and the importance of generosity toward others. My high school track coach, Jack Armstrong, helped me develop a high tolerance for pain and to understand the power of preparation, essential lessons for any entrepreneur. Today it is the world’s largest manager of alternative assets. Conventional assets are cash, stocks, and bonds. The broad category of “alternatives” includes pretty much everything else. We build, buy, fix, and sell companies and real estate. The companies we invest in employ more than 500,000 people, making Blackstone and its portfolio companies one of the largest US-based employers and one of the largest employers anywhere in the world. We find the best hedge fund managers and give them money to invest. We also lend money to c...

  You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf. —JON KABAT-ZINN “Cut short your losses, and let your profits run on.” That’s The Rule. That’s Larry. I also want my grandchildren and their generation to see that many more things are possible if you make the right bets—not only in your money life but in your love life too. Bets are just choices we make. I was born to a lower middle-class family, had a major learning disability, did poorly in school, and was nearly blind (completely blind in one eye and half-blind in the other). I was not handsome. I was not athletic. Today, I am a self-made multimillionaire. How did I do it? I made a bet on myself and won. You can absolutely do this too. The real question is, “Who did I write this book for?” It’s for the overweight girl who did not get invited to the high school prom. It’s for the last guy never chosen for a baseball game. You know, that hurts a lot when you are a kid. It’s for the star athlete too—because somewhere he...

  FLASH BOYS MICHAEL LEWIS Michael Monroe Lewis (born October 15, 1960) is an American author and financial journalist. He has also been a contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 2009, writing mostly on business, finance, and economics. He is known for his nonfiction work, particularly his coverage of financial crises and behavioral finance. Las acciones de P&G llegaron a cotizarse a un precio tan ridículo como un centavo y tan desmesurado como $100.000 usd. Durante ese breve período de tiempo se produjeron más de 20.000 transacciones distintas a precios un 60% mayores o menores que los existentes tan solo unos minutos antes. Greenwich Associates, la firma empleada para evaluar su posición con relación a sus colegas y competidores entrevista anualmente a los inversores que utilizan los servicios de Wall Street e informa de los resultados a los interesados. El RBC (Royal Bank) había sido un Banco menor, como lo demuestra el hecho de que había ocupado el puesto 19 en el ran...

  STEIDLMAYER ON MARKETS PETER STEILDMAYER Peter Steidlmayer (Chicago, IL) joined the Chicago Board of Trade in 1963 and has been an  independent trader ever since . Steidlmayer served on the Board of Directors of the Board of Trade in 1981-1983. When I worked for my father, I learned not to run away from a problem and to finish what I started. Our philosophy was to do the job once and do it right. Do not compete outside yourself; try to be the best you can within your own abilities. But learn from observing yourself and the many types of people around you. Learned that by watching you could perceive a sense of order. Emotions and impatience do not produce results, observations and understanding do. In my family, your job was you. A reflection of your standards. I realized that if I stayed within the accepted standards for the job, I would not learn anything. By stretching myself beyond the standards, forcing myself to do mor, I learned a lot. I learned that if you ...