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Nanoparticle characterization is a critical aspect of nanotechnology that involves analyzing the size, shape, structure, and properties of nanoparticles. These particles, typically ranging from 1 to 100 nanometers in diameter, exhibit unique physical and chemical properties compared to their bulk counterparts. Accurate characterization is essential for understanding their behavior, optimizing their performance in various applications, and ensuring their safety in biomedical and environmental contexts. What Are Nanoparticles? Nanoparticles are ultrafine particles with dimensions on the nanometer scale. They possess unique optical, electronic, and mechanical properties due to their high surface-to-volume ratio and quantum effects. These properties make nanoparticles useful in…
How important are healthy choices in our trading success? Is what we choose to eat and drink a factor in our profitability? Does it make up part of our edge? We spend so much of our time focussed on our trading strategy, fine-tuning every detail, tweaking our methodology, we sometimes forget about the other things we can do to improve our trading results. Things outside of the charts. Imagine you were hanging out with a bunch of traders and started talking about how to improve profitability. If you told them that you had a pill they could take, that would…
Losses, losses, oh those little blighters. Life would be so much nicer without them, wouldn’t it? When we first start trading, if a trade we liked the look of turns into a loss, it can be pretty tough emotionally. We might feel sick to our stomach, start telling ourselves “it’s not fair”, “I shouldn’t have traded that”, “if only I’d put my stop loss further away” or “if only I’d got out sooner”. But losses are an inevitable part of trading. Just like the idea of death, the sooner you get used to it, the easier life becomes. So if…
Emotions and trading… those two words should never been uttered in the same sentence, right? But how about seeing emotions as a helpful tool instead of something to be avoided at all costs? All too often, traders get the wrong end of the stick when they hear “if you have emotions when you’re trading, then you’re doing it wrong”. While it’s true that trading in a highly emotional state will hinder our ability to trade in a calm and discerning manner, unless we are all yoda-like enlightened beings, we are all going to feel some sort of emotion when we…
The number of instruments available to retail traders is huge, and once you add all the possible ways to trade, as well as all the possible timeframes to trade, it’s easy to see how traders get overwhelmed with options. Here we look at one piece of the trading plan jigsaw: which timeframe to trade. As with all the other aspects of an individual’s trading strategy, the timeframe to trade is dependant on what each trader feel comfortable trading, in other words, which timeframe suits their trading personality. In order to know which timeframe suits your trading personality, it’s worth asking…
A professional trader since 1981, and heading up her own hedge fund since 1992, Linda Bradford Raschke became well-known through her inclusion in the classic book The New Market Wizards by Jack Schwager. She co-wrote (with Laurence A. Connors) Street Smarts – High Probability Short Term Trading Strategies in 1995. In 2018, she has published Trading Sardines: Lessons in the Market From a Lifelong Trader. Linda Bradford Raschke is a well-respected and well-liked trader and writer, with over 40 years’ experience in the markets, so I had plenty of quotes to choose from. Here are my 12 favourites: What is…
Ken Griffin is the founder and CEO of the quantitative hedge fund Citadel. He also owns market maker Citadel Securities. He started trading while studying Economics at Harvard, and is now worth an estimated $35 billion. Here are 9 of Ken Griffin’s best quotes: Lessons learned from 2008: “Don’t act like a bank unless you are a bank. That was a really big lesson learned from 2008.” Ken Griffin started trading on his own, in his dorm room at Harvard, but Citadel now employs over 2,600 people. “I had to learn to trust people, and I realised that success was…
David Shaw is a computer scientist who founded the quantitative hedge fund D.E. Shaw & Co in 1988. Its successful use of sophisticated mathematical modelling and algorithms led to Shaw becoming known throughout the finance world as the ‘Quant King’. Here are 9 of David Shaw’s best quotes David Shaw often spoken of his view of the markets, that first developed in childhood. “I grew up with the idea that, if not impossible, it was certainly extremely difficult to beat the market. And even now, I find it remarkable how efficient the markets actually are.” As a computer scientist, David…
There are so many quotes doing the rounds about the markets and trading, and to be fair, most are pretty good. But what of those that are a little less known? Do they provide wisdom, entertainment and even humour? Here, I have put together 10 of my favourite quotes on the markets and trading, some more well-known than others… My 10 Favourite Quotes about the Markets and Trading We’ll start way back in the 1700s, with this quote from Voltaire, who had a very positive (and slightly amusing) view on the traders of the London Stock Exchange: “Go into the…
Denise Shull is a trader and performance coach who wrote Market Mind Games in 2012. In the book, she uses neuroeconomics and psychodynamic psychology to provide traders and investors with a variety of mindset tools to gain an edge in the markets. Here are our 12 favourite quotes from Market Mind Games: Traders demand certainty in the markets, where none exists. To be a successful trader means to embrace this uncertainty. “We greatly prefer to know what exactly our odds are. We feel more confident and less anxious when we know or think we know our exact chances. (This is)…