The real takeaway should be to understand how vicious Ken Lewis is in leaking this bit of news. A textbook hatchet job,.
I think this is true only for logical well adjusted individuals who eventually see thru the shallowness of it all. A lot of people however get...
I suppose people like to think of dramatic events as bad news. But you know, real cycles grind slowly. Capital controls descend on the US...
I suppose this thread is an interesting indicator of intelligence on ET. On the one hand, maybe a lot of people spotted it but couldn't be...
Thanks for the feedback. I run a Hotbrick dual WAN with cable and DSL feeds in the city. So far my cable tends to go out when there are...
Related question: What is a good laptop for a vacation trading machine? Running tradestation + TWS Would 2 monitors + matrox box + $700...
In a black out, what are the odds that EVDO or 3G will be also down? I remember when there was a black out, cell lines were all jammed for the...
"If it floats, flies or fornicates, rent it. It's cheaper in the long run."
Money is a claim on the future efforts of the people on this planet. If you have $500 and the average wage is $25 per hour, you can enjoy the...
I think you have to deal with risk holistically and avoid single number measures. Sharpe is a good tool for evaluating one strategy over...
I'm surprised people are still kicking around Parrando and Monty Hall. To be honest I don't see any potential for market application. On Sharpe...
Not only is Andrew Lo not a student, he is a prolific and well regarded professor at MIT *who also runs a quantitative hedge fund*. So his...
.... and Erin Callan lied like a finance minister on the eve of devaluation. Einhorn Vindicated on Lehman, Beating BlackRock, Putnam Bulls...
Quite true ..... quite true. Live and let live works best I suppose. Attempts by the independently minded at conversion and education seem...
A CEO screwing up and driving the share price down is hurting his shareholders and they should, if they had any sense at all, band together to...
Cobbling various strategies together I think is a very strategy collection specific challenge. There isn't a formula to it, and anyone who...
I encountered this paradox a while back and there is less than meets the eye. It's just one of those tricks used to impress the gullible. As...
Wesco has shareholder letters going back to 1997 on their website. If someone knows how to get earlier ones, please share or let me know.
I think the biggest hurdle to do-it-at-home buffett wannabees is patience. Buffett's purchases in publicly traded stocks number like a handful...
Oddly enough, there are parallels between horse racing and trading. In fact there have been funds that make made money in horse racing. Some...
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