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Are you a speculator or investor?

Posted by on June 30th, 2010

ah back in the blogging saddle after a few weeks worth of heavy work to wade through. Some interesting posts to investigate, especially the work on the Trend Strength Indicator. I've penciled in some analysis comparing the uses/ benefits of this compared to the TVA. http://cssanalytics.wordpress.com/2010/06/29/trend-strength-index-tsi-results-summary/ Another interesting post from CXO. From my experience I'd [...]

Swimming naked

Posted by on February 16th, 2010

I love this quote from Warren Buffet: "It's only when the tide goes out that you find out who's been swimming naked" For me it kind of sums up this whole financial crisis. From RBS to Greece, the common thread is of companies and governments engaging in a) high risk strategies for short term gain [...]

Animated bank reforms

Posted by on February 12th, 2010

The FT have put up an excellent presentation on the reforms proposed by President Obama Clicky As the conclude at the end, it will be interesting to see what kind of watered down reform gets through congress. Very interesting interview with Volcker here

One bite at a time

Posted by on January 21st, 2010

Apologies for my brief hiatus. I've been working on a few things for research and the day job of course takes up a not inconsiderable allocation of my time. Taking on a big project like developing a trading system is no mean feat. Last week I experimented with doing large chunks of research every few [...]