TexasHoldemInvesting – Weekly Tweets for 2009-10-12

October 12, 2009

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 $$ # [...]

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Dr. Bob Rotella, Golf, (Sport) and (Texas Holdem) Investing – Part 1 (of 2)

October 7, 2009

This is Part 1 of a 2-Part post series.  Part 2 is available here. Charles Kirk of the eponymous Kirk Report wrote a recent guest post entitled 10 Rules For Better Trading for Wall St. Cheat Sheet (which is produced by the Hoffman brothers, Damien and Derek). In the post Charles takes an article from [...]

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TexasHoldemInvesting – Weekly Tweets for 2009-10-05

October 5, 2009

“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 [...]

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Beating the Odds with (Texas Holdem) Poker Investing – Jeff Yass and Susquehanna

September 29, 2009

Jeff Yass (and his trading firm Susquehanna) is a prominent example of Texas Holdem Investing in action. Although Yass has been intensely secret about himself and his firm in recent years he first appeared in the popular investment media through an interview with Jack Schwager for “The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America’s Top Traders”. [...]

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TexasHoldemInvesting – Weekly Tweets for 2009-09-28

September 28, 2009

Dogbert explains how not to invest in stocks – http://bit.ly/R69pA – legendary $$ # Susquehanna, Jeff Yass, and how poker is used to identify and teach good traders in options – http://bit.ly/Btwfn $$ # More on Susquehanna – using poker tournaments to identify new trader candidates for their European operation – http://bit.ly/12oOI1 $$ # Working [...]

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TexasHoldemInvesting – Weekly Tweets for 2009-09-14

September 14, 2009

Buffett's investing described as bets again – http://bit.ly/Roqhf – I've done it before too – http://bit.ly/j9Bb2 – $$ # Guest post about Texas Holdem Poker Vs Investing (Part 1 of 2) on WallStCheatSheet – http://bit.ly/5X7Oy $$ # @StockPro Thanks for the retweet – part 2 is on the way # Comment on Poker and Losses [...]

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How is Texas Hold’em Poker Similar to Investing? Part 2

September 10, 2009

This post is a guest post on WallStCheatSheet. Part 1 of this post series introduced the concept of similarities between poker and investing. It then proceeded to describe 5 key areas of similarity. Part 2 now goes on to explain an additional 5 key elements where both fields share characteristics. 6. Unavoidable Expenses: Investing and [...]

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How is Texas Hold’em Poker Similar to Investing? Part 1

September 9, 2009

This post is a guest post written for WallStCheatSheet. Peter Lynch – one of the most well known US money managers – has written that one of the most valuable educational tools for a would-be-investor is playing poker. Other investment titans also have great regard for the skills that an investor can learn from playing [...]

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University installs virtual trading floor – it should install a real poker room too

September 5, 2009

The Irish Times reports today that the University of Limerick has installed a fully operational virtual trading floor.  The floor has 24 computers (starts at about 1:25 mins – gotta love the dramatic Gladiator-like background music) with all of the data needed to simulate trading at an investment house.  Unfortunately, there is one thing missing [...]

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Volokh – Is poker (and investing?) a game of skill

September 5, 2009

The Volokh Conspiracy blog posted today about the debate regarding whether poker is a game of skill or not.  The Masked Financier tried to make a comment on the post but couldn’t do it after repeated blocking by the “spam” filter.  It accused the Masked Financier of trying to sell “medication or gambling”.  That sounds [...]

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