Dow S&P500
Be interesting to see how the Yanks feel after their holiday.
Neat Photo
Found this on the google box. Looks like he is cleaning/power cleaning about 90kg – not bad for a bloke with one leg. So how is the sooking about being too tired to work out going…..
DetailsDollar Cost Averaging….Another Stupid Idea
Today’s contribution comes from Scott Lowther our system tester/designer extraordinaire….. I did something the other day that I have not done in a long time, I succumbed and read one of those main stream media articles on investing, and how dollar cost averaging pays off. Since completing the Mentor program in 2007, I normally…
DetailsHigher Education And Digital Technology
I have been a fan of the Khan Academy since I first encountered it – it seems to me that digital delivery of education has a different agenda to traditional education. Digital is about teaching – traditional is about credentials and the provision of degrees.
DetailsIdiot By Line Of The Day
For some reason I get a copy of Your Trading Edge sent to me on a regular basis and generally after a quick scan to see how far people can drop into superstition and magical thinking it goes in the bin. Not this week because one article contains a by line so staggeringly ironic that…
DetailsStudy Suggests Hedge Funds Are Good For Markets
A new academic study asks whether hedge funds make markets inefficient and the answer appears to be ‘no.’ “Hedge Fund Herding and Crowded Trades: The Apologists’ Evidence,” is the work of Blerina Bela Reca of the University of Toledo, Richard W. Sias, University of Arizona and Harry J. Turtle, Washington State University. The authors examined…
DetailsMark Cuban: High-Frequency Traders Are the Ultimate Hackers
Maybe….maybe not. Its probably more akin to pick pocketing with baseball bat – supposedly subtle and frictionless but actual a source of violence. More here
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