There was a joke going round some time ago that MySpace were going to merge with Facebook and create MyFace. The idea being that you could ask girls “are you on MyFace? Would you like to be on MyFace?” You can’t beat innuendo. MySpace has since died a death in the big scheme of things,…
In olden times it was considered bad form to discuss politics and religion in polite conversation. The weather was everyone’s go-to topic. I suppose it was far more likely that people would come to blows debating the abolition of slavery than how sunny it was going to be in the coming days, and whether it…
I’ve always wondered how it would work if you were to bet your arse in a wager. What would happen if you were to win? How would it pay out? Suppose you had really long odds of 150 to 1. Would they ship a whole load of arses to you? But they wouldn’t be your…
Humans are always looking for patterns, especially where they don’t exist. Where it suits their preconceptions a sample size as small as one will do very well. Their pronouncement will usually be preceded by the four words that illustrate that they have no real proof or evidence for their claim at all: “all I know…
A goodly number of stocks in the FTSE 100 are bearish just now, so I went to look for ones that are showing signs of doing well. If you’re managing a portfolio you need to balance the long with the short, even more so if you’re adopting a hedge fund approach. Hargreaves Lansdowne plc [HL.]…
When it comes to fashion I know little to nothing about it from a personal perspective. Clothes wear me, not the other way round, so without a little help from my friends I would look like I still live at home. Fashion always holds a mirror to society. It challenges taboos and what could be…
I saw a sign for ‘recycling’ in my local supermarket. I followed it and all I found was a lot of bikes that you were permitted to ride to places you’d already been before. One of the most powerful aspects of TA is price charts going back where they’ve been before. Support and Resistance are…
The Dislike button is coming to Facebook [FB]. There seems to be a lot of ideas about what this means. Zuckerberg said that it’s an ‘empathy’ button, the idea being that if your friend posts a status update that their granddad has died you can ‘dislike’ instead of ‘like’, which to be fair, liking such…
For those that aren’t familiar with it, a leading indicator of economic activity is the PMI (Purchasing Managers Index) and each developed nation has at least one. China has two: one produced by the government, which is not to be relied upon as it adopts the Eastern cultural norm of being over-optimistic and denying failure…
It was David Coleman who got away with persistently and consistently saying rubbish on live sports broadcasts. For those too young to remember, he, rather like Parkinson, was one of those unremarkable individuals who won the TV jobs lottery in the early days and made a lot of money as a pioneer going nowhere in…
