What makes us happy – Synthesizing Happiness

The secret to happiness. The study of our brain has revealed that happiness is synthesized by our brain. In a way it is like cognitive dissonance. Our mind has an immune system that perceived the world in a way that makes us happy. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video

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The Strangeness of Science By Richard Dawkins

One of the best intellectuals of modern time talking about how we are not evolved to comprehend the complexities of the world.   Evolution only gives us five senses, and a lot of psychological short-cuts (ie. emotions or hunches).         It is hard for us to grasp or even imagine the worlds we do not have direct contact with (ie. quantum worlds, or cosmological worlds, or higher dimensions).  What we understand of the world is a model our brains construct so […]

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Graphical Stock Analyzer

A visual representation of information is much better than plain data.  A picture is worth a thousand words.   During my recent trading experience, I’ve found that many of the factors that affects the stock price are not captured by the technical indicators.   To improve my trading, I decided to make my own indicators that makes sense to me, and put them in a graphical presentation.        The program is available at:  http://www.blogmybrain.com/stock_apps/stockGA/analysis.php       You are free to use […]

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Indian Comedian Russell Peters

Fun

This guy is hilarious. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video

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Some thoughts on trading

I have been trading for 5 weeks already.   It is very easy to experience the battle between emotion and reason.  And many times I have given in to my emotions.   Since the stock market is fractal, I believe that the following adage by warren buffet works in both short term and long term investing: “Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful.” Easily said than done, a great deal self-control and courage is required.  In addition, it […]

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