In 1959, new coach Vince Lombardi in his first meeting with the Green Bay Packers, held up an oblong, inflated pigskin and said, "Gentlemen, this is a football." The story is most likely apocryphal, but it sounds like something Lombardi might have said. His dedication to the basics of football, including hard work, are what turned the 1-10 Packers into a 7-5 team his first year. It's been proven again and again that the pursuit of simplicity is a successful strategy for nearly every area of [...]

Day trading, in case you’re not familiar, is the practice of buying stocks or ETFs and then selling them the same day. The goal is to do so with the hopes of cashing in at a large profit. As you might imagine, day traders use a myriad of strategies to try to get the slightest jump on an equity’s movement. These range from trying to anticipate quarterly results to chasing momentum to trading on the day’s news headlines. Experience and familiarity with the trading process can [...]

The idea of somehow getting tomorrow's news today is an intriguing one. What would you do if you had this knowledge? In the 1944 movie It Happened Tomorrow, the protagonist, a journalist, is given a newspaper from one day in the future. He tries to use this information to scoop a big story, prevent a box office robbery, and make a few extra bucks betting at the horse track. In Early Edition, the 1996 TV series with a similar premise, our hero decides to use his foreknowledge only [...]