All About Alpha has a great Andrew Lo graphic depicting how Alpha eventually morphs into Beta: Sources:A picture of the...
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An active trader pointed us to this very familiar looking off-balance sheet shenanigan found in the following paragraph regarding...
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My friend Paul has a chart from BP’s data, Visualizing Global Oil Markets: 1965-2007 (not my favorite chart porn in the...
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Friday’s WSJ front page article, Bernanke’s Bubble Laboratory, is must reading: "First came the tech-stock bubble. Then...
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Regarding yesterday’s New Home Starts, an emailer writes: You used to discuss the Commerce Dept.’s standard statistical...
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On Thursday, we noted the increase in volatility via a Financial Post column. Today’s chart porn comes via the NYT &...
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Barron’s Mike Santoli looks at one of our favorite pet peeves: The use and abuse of data. His column this week, The Limits of...
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Andrew Burkly of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co puts out a list of significant numbers each January. Its a clever way to think about...
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Much of investing relates to mathematics and the application of statistics. Markets are statistical data generating machines, and that...
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