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The Top Five Lessons of the Year 2012
There are usually three preoccupations people get busy with as a new year starts to roll: New Year’s Resolutions, New Year predictions or recapitulations of important events/thoughts of year just past. Continue reading
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Tagged " Influence of Herds, "The Art of Speculation", Aman Futures scam, Bull-Bear Connection in Boxing, impossible earnings, Influence of Authority, Philip Carret, small losses turning into big, The Black Swan Manny Pacquiao, Variable Universal Life or VUL
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The Black Swan Manny Pacquiao – How Horrendous Distractions Turn Bulls Into Bears
There is no recent sports event that is more over-discussed and over-analyzed than the recent unexpected knockout loss of the Philippine boxing icon Manny Pacquiao. Continue reading
Pacquiao’s 16th Jinx and His Biggest Battleground
You can call me unpatriotic, superstitious or a crackpot, but I strongly felt the certainty of Manny Pacquiao’s loss to Timothy Bradley after I read chronicler Marv Dumon’s revelation of Pacquiao’s “16th jinx,” as mentioned in Recah Trinidad’s PDI 04-12-12 article and in which I, in turn, quoted in my previous post entitled “The Bull-Bear Connection – An Unsolicited Advice to the Black Swan Manny Pacquiao“.
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Tagged "The Art of Speculation", "The Bull-Bear Connection - An Unsolicited Advice to the Black Swan Manny Pacquiao", Bob Arum, Jack Dempsey, James Tunney, Juan Manuel Marquez, Manny Pacquiao, Marv Dumon, Pacquiao's 16th Jinx, Philip Carret, the biggest battleground, Timothy Bradley
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The Bull-Bear Connection – An Unsolicited Advice to the Black Swan Manny Pacquiao
There’s a strange connection between the stock market and boxing success.
In the stock market there are bulls and bears; in the realm of boxing or pugilism, there also are bulls and bears. The bulls are those times when a boxer keeps on winning and if ever he loses, he quickly regains the winning touch. The bears come when the boxer loses and appears to have lost the winning touch.