July 30, 2008

Seismographs Cause Earthquakes. Q.E.D.

In yammering with friends today about the merits of equity technical analysis I got to thinking about earthquakes and seismographs. Why? Because it is less well know than it should be, but seismographs cause earthquakes. Number of earthquakes reported worldwide...

Sovereign Wealth Funds => Stocks Weaken Faster

There's further evidence today why SWFs (sovereign wealth funds) aren't exactly seen as smart money: Using an event study parameter approach, we find the short-run market reaction to be statistically insignificant in 11 out of 12 announcements of SWF investments;...

Technical Analysis Sucks There. There Too. And There.

I'm glad it wasn't me who wrote the paper, but I was amused to see the following today. Nothing like definitely proving something doesn't work everywhere, as opposed to proving it in just a few places. Technical Analysis Around the...

Back Again

I'm back from holidays. A big thanks to everyone who has been holding the fort here, and I'll have more on that later, plus some posts. Digging out for now....