when do machines lose to humans?

Monday, January 28, 2019 Francisco Carneiro 0 Comments

Mr. Montier looked at how well a wide variety of simple models in many non-financial fields, ranging from medicine to criminal recidivism, worked. In nearly every instance, the models outperformed the experts.
For instance, he pointed to research by Leli and Filskov on diagnosing brain damage. For this purpose a model was developed that correctly identified 83 per cent of new cases, whereas professionals working from the same data got it right only 63 per cent of the time.
Thankfully, when you arm the pros with the model their performance improved. But here comes the kicker: They still only managed to get it right 75 per cent of the time. Yup, despite knowing the model's results, they failed to match it, let alone beat it.

my view is that machines beat humans on a day to day granular decision hands on

when does a human might do better is the big thing, in the huge thing in the one in a life time event. I sold futures when i saw that the World Trade center fire was caused by a plane on purpose. That was a I opener, sell sell sell .

a few man can catch a whale in Açores but to fish small fish you need a scanner and technology. On a everyday life machines are much better.

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A bull market in Regulation

Monday, January 28, 2019 Francisco Carneiro 0 Comments

As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles
– Bertrand Russell, "An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"  

I posted this quote in 2012 ! i guess since then we have a continuation of the bull market of regulation in Europe and the opposite in the US.


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The market should fall but doesn't

Friday, January 25, 2019 Francisco Carneiro 0 Comments

There is every reason for the market to fall, retest bottom, poor earnings guidance, reverse QE etc... but it doesn't what do you do ?


if you don't understand a move it normally goes on and on.... That is why you don't make money from news because those moves everybody can figure them out...........If you don't understand something Invest , buy



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I am leaving BPI after 30 years at the end on the month.

Wednesday, January 23, 2019 Francisco Carneiro 14 Comments


"The beginning is always today."
Mary Shelley

I am leaving BPI after 30 years at the end on the month. It was a great run. It was fun.
When I started we could smoke in the office. I used to smoke pipe
People could smoke in the planes also
There was no cell phone or email. Then there was FAX!
There was no security in the airports you just board the plane.
I weighted 95 kg.
The bank paid me to study options in INSEAD. At the time that was a big deal and very expensive
I bought the first Bloomberg to BPI, before we only had Reuters &Telerate
I broke my legs in Mont Blanc in 1994
In those times we spent many nights working in the office to price some deals.
I used to arrive before 6 am everyday. In some years I had zero holidays, work was too exciting. Too much to do and no kids i just worked and worked. No time for sports.
The risk department was small and no regulators!
I had to get authorization from the CEO to buy my first HP 12C
Participated in the first Private banking team
We hired Bankers Trust to teach us about var in the 90’s
We worked with First Boston, Manufactured Hannover and Nat West…..all gone
I set up economic research in the 90’s from zero
I set up structured products and after that Hedge Fund business in 1999 also from zero
We signed Gavekal before everybody else, I invited david Swansen in 2004 and I read Dennis Gartman and Shilling ever since
we bought John Paulson in 2000. It was a 5 man shop.
I was in front of the screen trading in 9/11
We  fired Madoff in 2005 when it was one of the most profitable positions for us, it looked stupid……………
I weighted 90kg in 2005
I did more than 100 business trips representing BPI. Visited Hong Kong, Tokio, Singapur, São Paulo, Luanda, Timor, NY, Tampa, Miami, Chicago and San Francisco besides all of Europe of course.
I did my first Transportugal in 2010 (The biggest mountain bike Ultra marathon in Portugal)
I am very thankful to BPI for hiring me with 21 years without my University degree complete for the back office and letting me do so many things
I thank my bosses for all these years
Technology and innovation are making a world a better place for sure.
Shortage is not the problem abundance and oversupply is the problem.
To be an optimist paid a lot. In Europe paid to buy BUNDS!
There is always a bull market in the world I intend to find it and profit from it ….That is my plan. there is so much to do!
I am weighting 78 kg today!





My new contacts are



You don't need more stuff more gadgets more upgrades. What you need is a better you. Amen to this 

https://thoughtmeme.blogspot.com/2016/09/do-you-really-need-i-phone-7.html


Then and now



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Innovation makes the world better!

Tuesday, January 22, 2019 Francisco Carneiro 0 Comments

There are two ways to make the world better according to Pieter Thiel, one is called Globalization you see something that works in Country A and copy to country B. Small gains

second you invent something new to the world, giant step and you became rich.

It pays to find real innovators.





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Canary in a Coal Mine ?

Tuesday, January 22, 2019 Francisco Carneiro 0 Comments

when bank stocks under perform usually credit dries up 6 months later. 2018 was a disaster

one of the first casualties when credit dries up is REAL Estate




European banking Index, SX7E it's near all times lows



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A $300 or a $30 watch both tell the same time!

Thursday, January 10, 2019 Francisco Carneiro 0 Comments


I never came across this so i really don't know if this is really Steve Jobs hand but i agree with this. So here it is.....

The World's six best doctors ...  worth reading twice.......

  Steve Jobs Died a billionaire at age 56.  This is his final essay:

I reached the pinnacle of success in the business world.  In some others' eyes, my life is the epitome of success.  However, aside from work, I have little joy.  In the end, my wealth is only a fact of life that I am accustomed to.  At this moment, lying on my bed and recalling my life, I realize that all the recognition and wealth that I took so much pride in have paled and become meaningless in the face of my death.   

You can employ someone to drive the car for you, make money for you but you cannot have someone bear your sickness for you.  Material things lost can be found or replaced.  But there is one thing that can never be found when it's lost - Life.  Whichever stage in life you are in right now, with time, you will face the day when the curtain comes down. 

Treasure love for your family, love for your spouse, love for your friends. Treat yourself well and cherish others.  As we grow older, and hopefully wiser, we realize that a $300 or a $30 watch both tell the same time.  You will realize that your true inner happiness does not come from the material things of this world.  Whether you fly first class or economy, if the plane goes down - you go down with it.   

Therefore, I hope you realize, when you have mates, buddies and old friends, brothers and sisters, who you chat with, laugh with, talk with, have sing songs with, talk about north-south-east-west or heaven and earth, that is true happiness!  Don't educate your children to be rich.  Educate them to be happy.  So when they grow up they will know the value of things and not the price.  Eat your food as your medicine, otherwise you have to eat medicine as your food. 

The One who loves you will never leave you for another because, even if there are 100 reasons to give up, he or she will find a reason to hold on. There is a big difference between a human being and being human.  Only a few really understand it.  You are loved when you are born.  You will be loved when you die.  In between, you have to manage! 

"The six best doctors in the world are sunlight, rest, exercise, diet, self-confidence and friends
   .     Maintain them in all stages and enjoy a healthy life."

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Several European leaders have no children.

Thursday, January 10, 2019 Francisco Carneiro 0 Comments

From: Dr Ed's Blog

Human Self-Extinction

I observe that fertility rates have dropped below replacement rates around the world as a result of urbanization. Only in India and Africa are couples having enough babies to replace themselves. Humans are on a demographic path of self-extinction.

Leading the way has been Japan. I have often described the country as the world’s largest nursing home. That distinction undoubtedly will soon belong to China. All around the world, nursing homes will be bulging with more occupants, while the maternity wards will have lots of vacant cribs.

The economic consequences of these demographic trends will be slower growth and subdued inflation, if not outright deflation. That means that interest rates most likely will remain historically low for a very long time.



http://blog.yardeni.com/2019/01/on-demographic-path-to-human-self.html

 From: Irish Times

Theresa May (British prime minister), Emmanuel Macron (president of France) and Angela Merkel (chancellor of Germany). World leaders, and child-free. Add in our own Leo Varadkar, Scotland’s Nicola Sturgeon and the Netherlands’ Mark Rutte and the link is an EU leadership powered by heads of governments that are not parents.



To have kids is a ruin this is the result! There is zero state incentive to have children and since education lasts until 25 years or even more the cost is out of the charts. This diploma race has a downside, people stop having many children because they can't afford. Only in underdeveloped countries people still have children, they are not yet in the Diploma race.

In Europe the cost of education can go up to EUR 250,000 per kid, since taxes are 50% you need to make 500,000 gross.

This is the same as a small apartment or the cost of all the cars that you will have in your life! No wonder that there are not many kids

Someone wrote this , I agree

the cost of having children is prohibitive (childcare costs, lack/ insufficient protected leave) for so many who would very much like to, and cruelly, can only afford to when it is too late 



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Regular mealtime is a powerful predictor of high achievement scores

Monday, January 07, 2019 Francisco Carneiro 0 Comments

From  J.P. Morgan Eye on the Market's 

The importance of family  rituals and mealtime for children
  • Dinnertime conversation boosts vocabulary even more than being read aloud to. Young children learn 1,000 rare words at the dinner table, compared to only 143 from parents reading storybooks aloud. Children who have a large vocabulary read earlier and more easily
  • For school-age children, regular mealtime is an even more powerful predictor of high achievement scores than time spent in school, doing homework, playing sports or making art
  • Regular family dinners lower high risk behaviors such as smoking, binge drinking, marijuana use, violence, school problems, eating disorders and depression
Sources: Journal of Family Psychology, Dec 2002; Child and Adolescent Development, Mar 2006; Journal of Marriage and Family, Mar 2001; Journal of Adolescence, Feb 2010; Canadian Family Physician, Feb 2015; Washington Post, Jan 12, 2015.

I guess some routine helps kids get ahead. I would like to do more but since my divorce it's difficult to get everybody together around the table. We eat with our 4 year old everyday that is a plus. 

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I am a short run guy. I want to make money NOW

Friday, January 04, 2019 Francisco Carneiro 0 Comments

Is it better to but S&P at 2800 or 2400 ?


As the market goes down the chance of making money goes up in the long run

in the short run if the market is cracking the risk is big that it can continue going down. why? because there are people that are stopped out as the market falls.

in the short run it pays to buy markets that are making new all time highs

in the long run it pays to buy markets that are making 3 or 4 year lows

I am a short run guy. I want to make money NOW 









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who works best?

Thursday, January 03, 2019 Francisco Carneiro 0 Comments

I guess Germany!



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In the short term get out of the market

Thursday, January 03, 2019 Francisco Carneiro 0 Comments

The market doesn't look ok as we speak
USD is going up not good
Apple guidance a disappointment not good
corporate yields going up not good
the banking sector is going down massively (normally banks cut credit after )
chance of Global recession 2/3 according to the great A. Gary Shilling




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H A P P Y N E W Y E A R 2 0 1 9

Wednesday, January 02, 2019 Francisco Carneiro 3 Comments


Giving is living. If you stop wanting to give, there’s nothing more to live for.
 Audrey Hepburn


Someone send me this card and it captures my wish list for 2019 , Health, Friends & Family, be more in contact with nature and i would add a bit of money. when you have no money you only think about it and that is not good. Happy 2019 to you.

I am going to change my life a bit in 2019 since i am leaving BPI on February 1,  after 30 years. It has been a wonderful time for me and for the Bank during this 30 years. I have done many things and met wonderful people. 

I am not sure what i am going to do but my inclination is to set up my own business. 


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The USD is key

Wednesday, January 02, 2019 Francisco Carneiro 0 Comments

let's play attention to the USD. If the bull in USD ends we will have a risk on year. DXY almost crossed resistance in the last day of the year. 










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