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        <description><![CDATA[This is Hakan Bilgic's website. Hakan writes about neuroscience, the stock market and psychology. He shares his ideas and creations. From articles, books and his courses you will find information about his work.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Second Job]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Ask someone to explain how a zipper works and their confidence collapses mid-sentence. That collapse was the most useful feeling in human cognition, and it only arrived because explaining was hard. Everything AI makes cheap was doing a second, hidden job precisely because it was expensive: fluency signalled understanding, struggle built memory, a tired doctor's warmth proved someone was at stake, a signed decision carried a name, fresh human writing carried fresh information. This is an essay about what happens to a society when those costs go to zero, told through Yale's zipper experiment, a Wisconsin courtroom, Tinbergen's plaster eggs, a chatbot that out-cared physicians, the women whose job title was computer, a Victorian economist who predicted more smoke, and a rendering plant in 1980s Britain. The argument is that intelligence in the masses will not fall uniformly. It will split, and the split will be priced. Three interactive visualizations let you push a fake trigger past the range nature ever tested it against, walk the coal question across the elasticity where cheaper thinking flips from more jobs to fewer, and feed a model its own output generation after generation until the tails are gone.
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            <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Premium and the Claim]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Traders argue about skill, execution and screen time, and then get ended by something none of those things touch. The style you picked already chose your failure mode: whether you are long or short decides if your loss has a floor, and whether you trade small caps or large ones decides whether price has to pass through your stop on the way to wherever it is going. Those two questions make a map with four cells, and every cell pays you a premium for standing in it and eventually presents a bill drawn on the same mechanism that was paying you. From Volkswagen at 1,005 euros in October 2008 to the Swiss franc in January 2015 to a T12 halt on a small cap nobody has heard of, this is an argument that your edge and your ruin come out of the same hole. Seven interactive visualizations let you walk the style map, watch the long and short payoff lines diverge where one of them runs out of floor, put a stop into a halted tape and see it fill somewhere else entirely, price the carry that gives a short thesis an expiry date, read your own career off a log-scale bill clock, run four hundred careers through four sandboxes on identical skill, and size a position off the claim instead of off the stop.
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            <pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Invisible Hand on the Mouse]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Four people watch the same tape, in the same seconds, with the same account size, and finish the day thirty points of equity apart. The difference is not information and it is not intelligence. It is which nervous system is holding the mouse. This is a psychological autopsy of the ADHD trader, the anxious trader, the depressed trader and the regulated control who is not as safe as they think, tracing each one down through its feedback loop, its biology, the way all three conditions braid into one another, its childhood, its ancestry, and the life circumstances that move the mix from one week to the next, then showing how the same traits become an edge once they are named and given structure. Built around eight interactive visualizations that let you run one crash through four temperaments, watch a belief harden lap by lap, race the alarm against the plan, spike one of three coupled loads and watch the other two rise on their own, move a trait between the forest and the screen, load a life until the dormant code expresses, synchronise a hundred and seventy moods into a panic, and install guardrails to see which end of the distribution actually moves.
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            <pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Amplitude and the Delay]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[There are only two ways to take a good position out of a trader's hands, and they are opposites. You can move price hard enough to trip their stop, or you can do nothing for long enough that they quit. Part II of the trading pair looks at the machinery underneath both: Carol Osler's order-book study of where stops actually sit, the arithmetic that makes a sweep overshoot by six or seven times the order that started it, the small-float listings that run the tactic three times on the same audience, and why a hot ticker that topped out at 200 percent before 2020 now goes to a thousand. Built around eight interactive visualizations that let you sweep a cluster of stops, thin a book until the cascade has nowhere to stop, run the same float through two decades, sit through an eleven-week grind, and click through both Wyckoff schematics.
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            <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Food Chain]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A market is not a machine, it is an ecosystem. The same coupled equations that make lynx and hare populations rise and fall out of phase describe momentum and mean reversion, and the same food chain that puts grass under everything puts retail order flow under everything. Built around six interactive visualizations that let you tune a predator-prey system, watch its closed orbit become a helix, climb the trophic pyramid of market participants, trace payment for order flow around its loop, and flip a market between positive-sum and zero-sum.
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            <pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Empty Half of the Family Tree]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[You are descended from about twice as many women as men. That single asymmetry, written into your DNA and running from the size of a sperm cell to the harems of Bronze Age kings to the fertility collapse of 2024, explains more about human mating, history, and the demographic future than almost anything else. This is a tour from the roughly 117 billion people who have ever lived, through the genetic evidence that the paternal branches of humanity were pruned far harder than the maternal ones, into the evolutionary logic of why the sexes play the mating game differently, and out to the great descent of the birth rate that is now bending the human population toward its first peak. The striking numbers are real; the round figures layered on top are illustrative, and telling the two apart is the whole point. Eight interactive visualizations let you weigh the living against all the dead, scrub through the bottleneck that thinned the male line, watch a family tree fan out on one side and dead-end on the other, compare the tight female curve against the long male tail, trace that same lopsided attention onto a modern dating market, toggle the fall of fertility across regions, ride the population arc up to its crest, and hold the world's pro-natal spending up against the babies it did not buy.
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            <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Little Man in the Control Room]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[There are two little men hiding in your head, and confusing them is the oldest mistake in the study of the mind. One is real, drawn on the surface of your brain with giant hands and enormous lips, a body map you can touch with an electrode. The other is an illusion your brain cannot stop projecting: the inner observer who supposedly sits behind your eyes and watches your life on a screen. This is a tour from Wilder Penfield's operating table in 1930s Montreal, through the philosophy of the inner watcher, into the modern picture of the self as a model the brain builds and can build wrong, and out to the third little man that social media quietly hands you to worry about. Seven interactive visualizations let you morph a body into its cortical map, brush the sensory strip, chase the observer down an infinite regress, walk through the tunnel of your own perception, crank the dial between calm and anxiety, watch a cortex redraw itself after an amputation, and hold your neural self-image up against your curated one.
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            <pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Your Mind Is a Map, Not a Filing Cabinet]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[We borrow the language of computers to talk about memory: we store, retrieve, delete, run out of bandwidth. The metaphor is almost right, which is exactly what makes it mislead. This is a tour of how a memory is physically built, kept, lost, and rebuilt, from the synapse to the map-making cortex to the night shift of sleep, and why the fragmented, sleep-starved way most of us live in 2026 is close to a precise inversion of what learning actually requires. Seven interactive visualizations let you fire two neurons together and grow the synapse, drop a fact onto a map or into empty space, sabotage your own encoding with notifications, beat the forgetting curve, run a night of sleep, and sit in the valley where most people quit.
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            <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Mirror and the Magnifying Glass]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Trading does not build your character from scratch and it does not destroy it. It holds up a mirror to who you already are, then reaches for a magnifying glass and makes more of it, which is why two people running the identical activity can end up a monk and an addict. This is a tour of the traits that actually decide who lasts, how the market forges and sabotages each one, what it dangerously amplifies, how ADHD and bipolar wiring change the terrain, and how social media inverts every trait, built around five interactive visualizations that let you set what you bring and watch the same market amplify it in opposite directions.
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            <pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Six Phases of a Trader, and the One That Breaks You]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Almost everyone believes the crash is what ends trading careers. The largest dataset we have says it is the plateau. This is the whole road, all six developmental phases of a trader, told through the neuroscience, the hormones, and the statistics of survival, and built around one counterintuitive claim: the quiet middle, where skill keeps rising while the equity curve goes flat, kills more of the people who reach it than the early blowup ever does. Six interactive visualizations let you watch skill and results diverge, watch a winning hit rate still lose money, and re-run a genuinely winning strategy and see it post losses anyway.
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            <pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why You Get Worse at Trading by Watching Better Traders]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A trading chatroom can cost you money even when every call inside it is correct, because the room works on you through channels you never feel. Three findings from decades of research, on what being watched does to a hard skill, on how groups reach for risk no member would take alone, and on why the most followed voices tend to be the least skilled, stack into a machine for getting worse. Here is the research, the five-question mirror test it points to, and the quiet sequence that unwinds the whole thing.
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            <link>http://www.hakando.com/why-you-get-worse-at-trading-by-watching-better-traders</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Toll Booths, Not Traps]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A trap is something you stumble into once, by accident. A toll booth is built on a road on purpose, by someone who collects every single time traffic passes through. Most of what retail traders call traps in small caps are closer to toll booths. A field guide to the architecture: who builds them, what they are made of, and the handful of traps that live in the trader's own head rather than in the order book.
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            <pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Charts Are Circuits]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Trading chart patterns, capacitor curves, radioactive decay, bacterial growth, and ringing bells turn out to draw the same handful of shapes. A field guide to the five curves the universe seems to keep reusing, and what they tell you about the forces underneath.
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            <pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The year the sandbox opened]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[What happens when AI removes the friction that made us sharp? When the struggle that built resilience disappears? 2025 was the year I became more productive and less capable at the same time. This is my attempt to understand the paradox—and figure out what mountains to climb next.
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            <pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Cognitive Biases and Decision-Making: How Our Ancient Brains Navigate a High-Tech World]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Human technology advances at lightning speed, yet our brains have evolved at a comparatively glacial pace - still wired for threats and opportunities our ancestors faced. This mismatch creates a fundamental tension:  on one hand, we can access vast, complex information instantly; on the other, our inherently limited processing capacity compels us to rely on mental shortcuts and heuristics. These shortcuts often lead to cognitive biases—systematic  distortions that affect how we perceive, think, and make decisions. Drawing on research from behavioral finance, psychology, and neuroscience, this article presents a multi-layered framework to help readers understand how biases emerge in the brain, why they persist, and how they influence decisions, especially in fast-paced trading contexts. From creating a two-dimensional model to LeDoux’s fast and slow neural pathways—and ultimately a three-dimensional cube that considers timing  and temporal orientation - this exploration shows that biases are not just quirks of human thought, but adaptive responses in an environment that continually outpaces our biology.
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            <pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mastering small-cap equities: The crucial third stage of learning]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[This article examines the critical third stage of mastering small-cap equities.  It explores the essential variables and strategies traders must focus on during this pivotal phase of their learning journey.
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            <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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