I Have Always Been A Fan Of Henry’s
Henry Rollins letter to a young American
Investor Inattention During FIFA World Cup Matches
An odd little paper that someone obviously got a grant for. The Pitch Rather than the Pit: Investor Inattention During FIFA World Cup Matches At the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, many soccer matches were played during stock market trading hours, providing us with a natural experiment to analyze fluctuations in investor attention.…
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This remains a broad based rally – the interesting thing is the number of pundits who are still denying its existence.
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Interesting little graphic from the WSJ changes in the composition of the index over the past decade.
US Market Relative Performance
I snagged the following three graphs from Google finance. Each chart looks at the relative performance of the Dow (DJI), the NASDAQ (IXIC) and the S&P500 (INX) The point that interested me was that out to six months ago this was a recovery lead by the tech heavy NASDAQ with the Dow and S&P bringing…
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The world would be a lot more tolerable.
Why Incompetent People Are Too Incompetent To Know They’re Incompetent
How true is this……..
Irony
I got this invite thingy for the somewhat long winded – The 100WHF-Stanford PACS Conference: A New Era of Alpha & Altruism It is being presented by a group called 100 Women In Hedge Funds which is a professional body that aims to support women working in the financial arena. All in all a good…
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I have written about prediction a few times in the past – the main thrust of my argument is that it is – 1. Pointless 2. Experts dont have a friggen clue This is a nice little podcast on Philip Tetlock one of the driving forces behind the pointlessness of experts philosophy. So Tetlock took…
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