Still trying to get back into the groove with the site.

I’ve finally “spun out” of my full time job and am setting up my very own mini investment bank – prop trading included.

Managing to get some tweeting done but still short on the article inspiration.

However, I have made some changes to the site and made one exciting move as follows:

• Free ebook – Readers can now download a free copy of my ebook – “Texas Holdem Investing – An Introduction” (E-Junkie, the site I use to host my download, only permits 100 free downloads per day!  And amazingly that limit is being hit nearly every day.  So, if you aren’t permitted to download from the link above, please sign up to the TexasHoldemInvesting.com email list and you will received download instructions or send me an email at maskedfinancier@texasholdeminvesting.com with “Free Ebook Request” in the subject line).  Please take your own copy, tell everyone about it, and feel free to email the book around.  I only ask that you don’t copy the materials without giving The Masked Financier credit and linking to this site.
• StockTwits – I’ve added the StockTwits newsfeed to the homepage
• Twitter – I’ve added the MaskdFinancier’s Twitter feed to the homepage

Enjoy the next phase of the Texas Holdem Investing website!

UPDATE: Thank you so much to all the people who have downloaded my introduction ebook.  I am very grateful that so many people (in the hundreds!), a number of whom are financial professionals, have taken the time to explore the Texas Holdem Investing concept.  I would appreciate any comments and feedback that readers may have.

Two Texas Holdem Investor titans working together Vs Donald Trump – Carl Icahn & Andy Beal – what a poker game! http://bit.ly/6A1rSb

Suckers of the Future Groomed With Stock Game – they should be groomed with poker to learn about risk properly – http://bit.ly/7QI1hs

Like a good poker player, the best investors avoid playing when the odds appear stacked against them – http://bit.ly/5eHhdA

@codytrades – good point on Yahoo Boards – investors should spend more time playing poker instead of reading meaningless chatter

WorldofWarcraft teaches applied math @ ElitistJerk.com; Texas Holdem teaches investing @ TexasHoldemInvesting.com – http://bit.ly/81noza

Games (like poker) can make you smarter, help tangential learning (like about investing) – http://bit.ly/81noza

MW Trading – Poker & Trading – and how poker helps you to learn about your investing self – http://bit.ly/8xZm4F

Step 12 of Texas Holdem Investing – Starting Hands & Selecting Investments – http://bit.ly/rlC5l

Disclosure for trading “dark pools” would be like “forcing investors to play poker with their cards faceup” – WSJ – http://bit.ly/8D5e65

The Masked Financier @ TexasHoldemInvesting is in good company on the anonymity side – FT’s new “secret” blogger @ftbanquo

With Texas Holdem you need patience and discipline, the exact same skills needed to be a good trader, Scott Redler – http://bit.ly/81HspA

Daytrading titan Steve Schonfeld considers card playing savvy when evaluating new trading candidates – http://bit.ly/81HspA

Taking risk and assessing information quickly are elements of both trading and poker playing – http://bit.ly/81HspA

Are you a gambler or an investor (or a poker player) – A Flow Chart @ Bullishness – http://bit.ly/7IcMNM

Hedge Fund Managers & Poker – Texas Holdem Hedgies (guest post @ MarketFolly) – the original with some more links – http://bit.ly/6dXHlM

The Economist blog network talks about “Rolling the Dice”, poker, and investing – http://bit.ly/8uXvx2

The hyper-aggressive online poker prodigy Isildur1 gets a name http://bit.ly/8pIy81

“Hedge Fund Managers & Poker – Texas Holdem Hedgies” – a TexasHoldemInvesting.com guest post at MarketFolly.com – http://bit.ly/8ZvPpH

Natural gas trader who is “like a poker player who can see everyone else’s cards” – John Arnold – http://bit.ly/7g7gW6

A new post inspired by Mason Levinson’s BBerg article – “Investment Firms That Use Poker” – http://bit.ly/68dJfc

Susquehanna has been using poker to teach its new traders since it was founded in 1987 – McCauley – http://bit.ly/4w4JDi

Bloomberg gets the Texas Holdem Investing joke – investment firms look for poker players as traders – http://bit.ly/4w4JDi

Cabot: Investing can be fun; Mr Market (and its bad beats) tests firsts and teaches after – like Texas Holdem Poker: http://bit.ly/CaQqU

GuruFocus: The Hardest Part of Investing (and Poker): Discipline – William J. De Rosa – http://bit.ly/1SEi6r

Market Wizards advice from 15 Top Traders on Jack Schwager’s video – via @MarketFolly – http://bit.ly/Of9UD

@jackstevison Thanks for the reference to @TradingTheOdds – seems like a great site

WSOP winner Joe Cada to use his $8.6m pot to start investing: http://bit.ly/2TXxk – Texas Holdem Investing theory expects him to be good

@jbuchersghost You have control in poker through your skill (like in the markets), but no control over the built-in slot machine odds

@jbuchersghost CNBC is indeed a joke using slot machines as a comparison for investing – they should have used poker cards

Dr. Phil Pearlman takes about poker and trading on his Market Shrinkology StockTwits TV show – http://bit.ly/4uMNGX

Trefis – an interesting modelling tool for getting a view on the (poker) investment flop, turn, and river – http://bit.ly/Cuiu2

@codytrades your trading style sounds like playing lots of no limit holdem with small blind losses and some big pot wins…

Poker “market” tells – is Goldman the biggest “tell” or is it now irrelevant – Bespoke Inv Group – http://bit.ly/3RDVm5

Texas Holdem Investing online book – new chapter – Step 11: Position in Texas Holdem and Investing – http://bit.ly/rlC5l $$

William Bernstein – 4 investing (and poker) skills – Interest; Math; Financial History; Emotion Control – http://bit.ly/4yXMJB $$

William Bernstein – 1/1000 people have ability to succeed at investing – poker can help tell if you are “the 1” – http://bit.ly/4yXMJB $$

Falkenblog – developing an investment strategy – poker can help you develop this discipline – http://bit.ly/3Rxosd $$

Poker at the highest level – in the White House – http://bit.ly/1Rvc0R $$

L&W poker analogy: almost always right to call set of kings since a high % of the time u will win but not always – http://bit.ly/3EbAm7 $$

Long&Wrong – a losing trade isn’t always a wrong trade (unless you also failed to correctly apply your strategy) $$

A Trading “Pause” button to let your emotions catch up with your analysis – like the timer in poker – Long&Wrong – http://bit.ly/2yAXIC $$

GigaOm – Learning Entrepreneurship From Watching the World Series of Poker – http://bit.ly/3B0pso $$

Tischendorf – Howard Lederer On Poker And Trading The Markets – the (great) game is afoot – http://bit.ly/Q60Xs $$

Playing Every Hand Is For Fish (as with poker so it is with investing and making trades) – Anon Market Notes – http://bit.ly/WDzs7 $$

Abnormal Returns shows that losses are lessons – in investing as with poker – http://bit.ly/3EtSVi $$

Then again, even the great Warren Buffett has bad plays (http://bit.ly/fklNO) and doesn’t finish top of the investing heap every year $$

Finance background helps to get to the last WSOP table (http://bit.ly/44LyOd) but you need some luck to win out – http://bit.ly/2buNK0 $$

@EpicureanDeal please support our fellow investment banker Steven Begleiter at the final WSOP table – one up over those trader poker players

New Post: The World Series of Poker (WSOP) Investment Banker – Steven Begleiter – cheer with me on Saturday – http://bit.ly/44LyOd $$

RT @huffingtonpost Steve Begleiter, Former Bear Stearns Exec: World Series Of Poker Winner? (VIDEO) http://bit.ly/v5QC2

@marketfolly: Like the Buffett-poker $BNI quote “It’s an all-in wager on the economic future of the United States, I love these bets.” $$

Traderfeed discusses unreasonable expectations for traders – and my comment on how poker helps with this – http://bit.ly/2WkIaq $$

You’re right because your facts and reasoning are right, but some investments (like cards) go bad – Buffett’s logic, http://bit.ly/4oEIzj $$

“Named must your fear be before banish it you can.” – Yoda. Poker can help you to name (and maybe banish) your investing fear(s). $$

We often overestimate our composure under investing pressure – play poker to make sure you know yourself – http://bit.ly/1ql0GA $$

Good poker players know it is crucial to make the right decision, regardless of the cards. Investing the same – http://bit.ly/4oEIzj $$

Greenbackd was a bad poker player and mis-estimated implied odds with VVTV (ShopNBC) – missed an 1100% gain – http://bit.ly/3CQHQJ $$

Poker pro Fredrik Paulsson: poker players are active capital managers and equipped to deal with the stock market – http://bit.ly/1BbIIS $$

Poker pro Phil Gordon approaches the game as “strategic investing” and has “reasonable expectations” – http://bit.ly/1BbIIS $$

This Time is Different: 8 Centuries of Financial Folly – Rogoff & Reinhart – Poker teaches you that it never is – http://bit.ly/1sipJR $$

Instinct for the odds, weighing risk and acting decisively – hallmarks of a great trader and a steely poker champ – http://bit.ly/4scW6T $$

@EpicureanDeal – Jefferson did say that. General Xavier X Hummel quotes it in “The Rock” – shows that good film scripting can be educational

@pkedrosky – happy that Mr. Grizzly Short Fund has confidence in the market – I like the advice of practitioners with good long records

How does your ability to make financial decisions change over time? – Vanguard Blog – http://bit.ly/3bEexB $$

# Step 10 of Texas Holdem Investing – New Chapter Posted – Bankroll & Money Management – http://bit.ly/3POE7K $$

Buffett & Munger – Avoid complex maths and theories – http://bit.ly/8iSAr – Texas Holdem Investing can help develop a simpler approach $$

The Symbolic Power of Money – Your brain thinks money is a drug – might explain all the bad decisions about it – http://bit.ly/17hYNz $$

What does poker have to do with investing? A lot it seems – 7Million7Years – http://bit.ly/eD48v $$

Chris Ferguson’s $0 – $10k bankroll management challenge – http://bit.ly/2Ff0Jb – http://bit.ly/4p96rD $$

Minyanville – Five Questions to Ask Yourself Before Any Trade – http://bit.ly/6yUNG $$

Van K. Tharp – Poker and Trading Mistakes Part I – knowing probabilities and your “edge” – http://bit.ly/SCHbP $$

FT – Martin Wolf – Ending the casino would break the bank – http://bit.ly/3Un2YX $$

More of the online Texas Holdem Investing book posted – Step 7: Capital – Step 8: Poker and Investing Costs – http://bit.ly/rlC5l $$

Annie Duke Poker Tips that are Applicable to Trading – from EarningsBreakout – excellent post (and video) – http://bit.ly/1qHw8t $$

Getting It Wrong: Surprising Tips on How to Learn – Just like Poker and Investing – Scientific American – http://bit.ly/fSIR4 $$

@TheKirkReport – great Kovner quote about not personalizing losses – a true Market Wizard $$

Ten Characteristics Brett Steenbarger Sees in Successful Traders – http://bit.ly/3J5D63 – and my Texas Holdem Investing analysis comment $$

What We Can Learn From Trading and Poker – Brett Steenbarger – Trader Coach – http://bit.ly/25sO0K $$

David Einhorn’s (Texas Holdem Investor in reverse) speech to the Value Investing Congress – http://bit.ly/FWfnd Personal Finance tips (spending and saving) learnt from playing poker – http://bit.ly/WRGm0 $$

@RatioTrader – correct about needing a trading plan – it is essential: Fail to Plan, Plan to Fail…. $$

Bill Gross: gambling & money mgmt are the same – spread risk and avoid being emotional while focused on the odds – http://bit.ly/3V5Gql $$

Investopedia’s take on similarities (and differences) between investing and gambling (not poker specifically) – http://bit.ly/3dJCPX $$

Dr. Bob Rotella, Golf, and (Texas Holdem) Investing – Part 2 (of 2) – New TexasHoldemInvesting post – http://bit.ly/2f7LL5 $$

Poker mixes Puritan values — self-control, slow saving — with the free-market cowboy’s desire to get rich quick – http://bit.ly/OzfKG $$

Dan Solin – the risk of not understanding risk-adjusted returns – http://bit.ly/3mIS9Y $$

Super smart entrants to banking ended up busting Wall Street – they should have learnt some poker first… http://bit.ly/2HjBbX $$

@WSCS – great link to Annie Duke interview – investors can learn alot by listening re skills for good poker play – http://bit.ly/1RitcS $$

Investing, gambling, & bounded rationality from the Financial Philosopher (with some Blaise Pascal) – http://bit.ly/dp6wc $$

The trouble with investor behaviour – http://bit.ly/hyCN6 $$

Teddy Sheringham (ex Man United player) likes poker – and figured out how to win in dodgy dens (e.g. Wall St?) – http://bit.ly/dtrwB $$

Famous Airman and poker – Kirk Kerkorian used his poker winnings to buy the fledgling Trans Int’l Airlines – http://bit.ly/sdFUX $$

Famous Oilman and poker – all H.L. Hunt needed was a deck of cards and some poker chips – http://bit.ly/sdFUX $$

Poker chips, the Probability Problem, and equities investing from HedgeCo – http://bit.ly/qJxhS $$

James Simons – hedge fund king (Renaissance Technologies) and avid poker player – retires – http://bit.ly/GOcEN $$

@howardlindzon – great analysis that gambling is one of the few honest pursuits left – Mark Cuban would agree – http://bit.ly/xmeMg $$

Occidental CEO not worried that Phibro traders will “gamble away the money” – http://bit.ly/Viy3B $$

Dr. Bob Rotella and how relevant is sports to investing – new post at Texas Holdem Investing – http://bit.ly/2iuiR2 $$

Kiplinger shows how to Be A Better Investor through managing emotions and reducing fees – http://bit.ly/whAF7 $$

• Alea blog on how psychological traits affect behaviour and performance of investors – http://bit.ly/K4TUN $$ #
• Kiplinger shows how to Be A Better Investor through managing emotions and reducing fees – http://bit.ly/whAF7 $$ #
• Dr. Bob Rotella and how relevant is sports to investing – new post at Texas Holdem Investing – http://bit.ly/2iuiR2 $$ #
• Occidental CEO not worried that Phibro traders will “gamble away the money” – http://bit.ly/Viy3B $$ #
• @howardlindzon – great analysis that gambling is one of the few honest pursuits left – Mark Cuban would agree – http://bit.ly/xmeMg $$ #
• James Simons – hedge fund king (Renaissance Technologies) and avid poker player – retires – http://bit.ly/GOcEN $$ #
• Poker chips, the Probability Problem, and equities investing from HedgeCo – http://bit.ly/qJxhS $$ #
• Famous Oilman and poker – all H.L. Hunt needed was a deck of cards and some poker chips – http://bit.ly/sdFUX $$ #
• Famous Airman and poker – Kirk Kerkorian used his poker winnings to buy the fledgling Trans Int’l Airlines – http://bit.ly/sdFUX $$ #
• Teddy Sheringham (ex Man United player) likes poker – and figured out how to win in dodgy dens (e.g. Wall St?) – http://bit.ly/dtrwB $$ #
• The trouble with investor behaviour – http://bit.ly/hyCN6 $$ #
• Investing, gambling, & bounded rationality from the Financial Philosopher (with some Blaise Pascal) – http://bit.ly/dp6wc $$ #

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• “Beating the Odds with (Texas Holdem) Poker Investing – Jeff Yass and Susquehanna” – http://bit.ly/Eh8FN – my latest post $$ #
• Susquehanna recruits with poker – http://bit.ly/4FCNeC $$ #
• New piece in my Texas Holdem Investing book – Poker Performance Analysis – Online vs Offline – http://bit.ly/3mOcJF $$ #
• @howardlindzon – Good luck with the Bloomberg Radio interview – post up a listen link if you can $$ #
• Another Texas Holdem Investing page – Typical (Bad) Performance Monitoring – http://bit.ly/4qiQx2 $$ #
• @EpicureanDeal – great set of posts on investment banking pay (the right length IMHO) – final part is http://bit.ly/JxOGd $$ #
• Mrs. Robo Jones starts to make an FX impact (using dumb investors to move the FX markets) – FT Alphaville – http://bit.ly/t0EOU $$ #
• More Texas Holdem Investing book instalments (on a roll today) – Monitoring Software – http://bit.ly/vVS6G $$ #
• Sorry to see that ZeroHedge is now hosting Google Adwords for dodgy investment advice e.g. “Managed FX fund +18% YOY” $$ #
• New piece of the Texas Holdem Investing book – Poker Statistics for Monitoring – http://bit.ly/37DJhB – any feedback appreciated #
• Know when to hold them, when to fold them (and investing) – http://bit.ly/mxPKL $$ #
• Guest post at WallStCheatSheet re Jeff Yass, the market, and options – http://bit.ly/48Y4iv $$ #
• Interactive Investor’s “Online Investor of the Year 2000″ thinks he should have left the poker table earlier http://bit.ly/2kwO0t $$ #
• A game of “corporate takeover poker” going on between Canadian Hydro and TransAlta – an interesting analogy – http://bit.ly/1twSds $$ #
• Poker and the mentality of Value Investing – http://bit.ly/yOkEu $$ #

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• What you "know" about the statistics of a situation may not be correct in the real world – like the unfair coin flip – http://bit.ly/fyU7R #
• Understand the cost of not understanding probability theory – http://bit.ly/3Iw0gX – Texas Holdem Poker can help you to learn about it #
• Damien Hoffman opens interview with pro trader Brian Shannon by describing the key traits of champion poker players – http://bit.ly/oKs0u #

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• Finally – 2 new pages in my online book – about memorizing odds, and odds in investing – http://bit.ly/19KUrZ ; http://bit.ly/weSzw #
• Just installed the Thesis theme on my blog – courtesy of @HowToMakeMyBlog (Marko Saric) – looks good so far – happy to get feedback #
• Clusterstock – 12 things you must know before investing again – http://bit.ly/4CoE4 – they left out using the Texas Holdem Investing method #
• Renaissance Technologies Jim Simons – an interesting piece – http://bit.ly/3ERLI – note that like in poker even Jim has been aided by luck #
• An old Bloomberg article about hedge fund manager David Einhorn's World Series of Poker successes – http://bit.ly/YTMRM #
• Manro Hayden trading firm is backing poker players and providing risk management technology to them – http://bit.ly/k0CR6 – FT #
• Dr Shock – Computer games at work are good for you – http://bit.ly/PdtO8 – I wonder what the Dr thinks of poker at work (for investors) #
• Sports advice relevant to trading – Wall St Cheet Sheet shows it with Dr. Bob Rotella's 10 Rules for Golf performance – http://bit.ly/8acpb #
• Changed my site tagline – "Learn to Invest – Texas Holdem Poker Style" – a little more edge don't you think! #

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• Hold or Fold, but don't waver – http://bit.ly/zVkQ3 – NYT – more investment education through poker analogies… #
• What's luck got to do with it? The math of gambling – http://bit.ly/XIYmO – New Scientist #
• Prof. Lasse Pedersen's "Hold or Fold" paper on liquidity – http://bit.ly/sVHAW #
• Andy Beal (The Poker Banker) backs The Donald (Trump)'s Atlantic City casino – a match made in poker heaven – http://bit.ly/7PDWu #
• Nalcor oil investment in Canada described as "high stakes poker" by the political opposition – http://bit.ly/14LsEo #
• High Frequency Trading is attracting much attention (e.g. ZeroHedge) – explained with poker for investing newbies – http://bit.ly/s7tEw #
• The flow of gaming analogies to trading continues – not poker but this time chess – http://bit.ly/bpNu6 #
• Poker meets university students to teach them about life – http://bit.ly/GzRaf – at Casino-Online.com #
• Comment on Dasan's epic post about poker and investing – Fishes, Donkeys, Bulls, and Bears – http://bit.ly/6NNxZ – a magnum opus #
• Great Fred Wilson post on sports and cards analogies for investing, and my comment – http://bit.ly/7MPOl #
• New post – Fred Wilson gets Texas Holdem Investing and explains it with Venture Capital – http://bit.ly/3ar8lH #

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