Trading is not an intellectual activity. It's an emotional one.
The decisions that cost you money aren't analytical failures. They're emotional ones. Fear. Greed. Ego. The inability to pull the trigger. The inability to let go.
Over-intellectualising pulls you toward analysis and perfectionism and away from the one thing that actually matters: taking risk.
The best traders don't eliminate the emotional side. They learn to work with it. Ignore it at your peril — it's always there, and it will always find you.
Every time someone says "Claude's limits are too restrictive," I immediately know how they're using it.
Most people treat Claude like a chatbot.
Power users treat it like a system.
Same free plan.
Completely different results.
The difference is usually:
→ Better context management
→ Shorter prompts
→ Smarter session resets
→ Claude Code workflows
→ Knowing when not to waste tokens
I turned the highest-leverage tactics into a simple infographic:
15 ways to get dramatically more value from Claude without paying a cent more.
Save this before your next "usage limit reached" message.
🚨 Anthropic just showed a 27-minute workshop on how to actually do prompts for Claude.
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1% to 3% of day traders in the futures market day traders are profitable each year according to multiple studies. One study reported that only 1.1% earn more than the minimum wage (Sources: The Motley Fool, others).
Mohammed Qahtani won the Toastmasters World Championship of Public Speaking. It’s easy to see why.
Please watch his speech. Words have power. Words can be our power. Words can unite or divide. Words can spit venom or can mend a broken soul. Words matter.
@emirates Hi, i would really like to thank Simone at King Shaka Airport, Durban for going above & beyond her customer service requirements. I was a minute late to drop off my bags at the check-in desk.
Whilst the attendant at the counter i arrived at said nothing could done.
@emirates This saved a terrible personal crisis from being a disastrous one.
I'd just like to offer my sincerest thanks to Simome and let others know there are still good , honest people willing to go the extra mile
Thank you Simone & i hope you receive the career recognition you deserve
This little book is the company building philosophy of David Ogilvy broken down into bite-sized pieces.
Buffett called Ogilvy a genius and this is a list of ideas Ogilvy wanted to pass on:
1. Discovery consists of seeing what everyone has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
2. Those who live by their wits go to work on roller coasters. The ride is exhilarating, but you need a stomach of titanium.
3. Rule #1: There are no rules. Rule #2: Never forget rule #1.
4. Only dead fish go with the flow.
5. God is with those who persevere.
6. Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius. (Peter Thiel)
7. Fear is a demon that devours the soul of a company.
8. Self-doubt is the enemy of creativity.
9. How great we become depends on the size of our dreams. Dream big dreams.
10. If you asked an oracle the secret to doing great work and the oracle replied with a single word my bet would be on “curiosity” (Paul Graham)
11.If you have to choose between agreement and conflict, take conflict every time. It always yields a better result. (Jeff Bezos)
12. It's the cracked ones that let light into the world. (Talent is likely to be found among nonconformists, dissenters, and rebels.)
13.The leader of the company has one principal responsibity: provide an atmosphere in which creative mavericks can do useful work.
14.Bureaucracy has no place in an ideas company.
15.Have a habit of divine discontent with your performance. It is an antidote to smugness.
16.Dogged determination is often the only trait that separates a moderately creative person from a highly creative one.
17.We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit. (Aristotle)
18.Our character is a composite of our habits.
19.Habits constantly, daily, express who we really are.
20. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. Before them, obstacles vanish into thin air and mountains crumble into atoms.
21. People don’t have ideas. Ideas have people.
22. The best leaders give their people permission to practice magic. They get rid of sad dogs who spread gloom.
23. Habit is overcome by habit.
24. If we avoid candor we destroy trust.
25. You fight against the tyranny of politeness by telling the truth.
26. Making great work requires us to be brutally honest and totally dedicated to the truth.
27. In the absence of courage, nothing worthwhile can be accomplished.
28. Intense curiosity keeps you young. When we're green we grow, when we're ripe we rot. (Ray Kroc)
29. DON'T BOW YOUR HEAD.
30. DON'T KNOW YOUR PLACE.
31. DON'T SIT BACK.
32. DON'T GIVE IN.
33. DON'T GIVE UP.
34. DON'T WIN SILVERS.
35. DON'T BE SO EASILY HAPPY WITH YOURSELF.
36. DON'T BE SPINELESS.
37. DON'T BE GUTLESS.
38. DON'T BE TOADIES.
39. DON'T GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT.
40. DEFY THE GODS.
41. We are the people we have been waiting for.
The entire world, not just FX traders, should be watching China's fix this week -- and this month
Ending the fixed fix would be a big deal. Letting the yuan be pegged to weak edge of the band would be a big deal.
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The entire world, not just FX traders, should be watching China's fix this week -- and this month
Ending the fixed fix would be a big deal. Letting the yuan be pegged to weak edge of the band would be a big deal.
1/2