If your data mining method results in no significant results, you should look for a different data mining method rather than relaxing your...
Technically speaking, curve fitting is the goal. Curve fitting is the art of matching a theoretical model to the underlying behavior of a...
I don't know how I missed this thread earlier. Good thread. Responding to the original post, your concern is a well known statistical flaw...
In SF Bay Area rents dropped precipitously (30% or so) in 2000 and 2001 and have been steady or dropped a bit since then. In the same time housing...
Oh, I agree. Most, but not all. Opportunity cost is included in discounted present value by definition. That is what discounted means. The...
Hey man, you started the thread. You said discuss. I discussed. What's your issue? By an astonishing coincidence, I actually live in Shittown,...
So was the dot-com bubble. Just not enough intrinsic value. :) Tell Amazon, EBay, Yahoo, and Google that there is no intrinsic value in doing...
The correct analogy will be obvious in hindsight, just as the flaws of the New Economy were obvious in hindsight. In many markets, real estate...
That's the most plausible explanation I've heard. Maybe there's something in Texas consumer protection law that prevents them from using this...
And the difference between affordabilty and demand is what exactly? Martin
Granted, the real estate market is illiquid, opaque, inefficient and highly segmented. But it is still a market. Willing sellers meet willing...
Unless the 30 year yield is also priced beyond affordability, as Greenspan has been reminding us every chance he gets. The market will figure...
http://www.irs.gov/publications/p550/ch04.html "Once you make the election, it will apply to 2005 and all later tax years, unless you get...
Apart from the benefits you listed earlier in the thread: 1) An entity can elect MTM internally when it is created, at any point in the tax...
How about historic options end-of-day data going back a few years? Martin
Fundamentals always get the last laugh, though. Martin
I'm very happy with IQFeed for equities, using their socket interface. Don't know about futures. Martin
Literally nothing, eh? Odd that you went on to contradict yourself in the next paragraph. Martin
A smart trader doesn't bet against the tape, as you said. But a smart investor will get out of an overvalued market. It is precisely because...
Maybe you weren't listening to the right people. Malkiel devotes a chapter of "A Random Walk Down Wall Street" (first published in 1973) to...
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