Archive for October, 2010

• Sunday links: too cheap to sell
  abnormalreturns, October 31st, 2010 at 6:20 am, Comments: 0

  Quote of the day Charles Kirk, “In my opinion, it is very important for those who engage in passive strategies to understand how to incorporate [...]

• Top clicks this week on Abnormal Returns
  abnormalreturns, October 31st, 2010 at 6:19 am, Comments: 0

  Thanks for checking in with us this weekend.  Here are the items our readers clicked most frequently on  Abnormal Returns for the week ended Saturday, [...]

• Saturday links: long form curation
  abnormalreturns, October 30th, 2010 at 11:36 am, Comments: 0

  We do not normally publish links on Saturday.  However today we want to try an experiment in long form curation.  That is take a look [...]

• Social networks, bubbles and market memes
  abnormalreturns, October 29th, 2010 at 3:00 pm, Comments: 0

  How do ideas cross over from one social group to the next?  It is an interesting question especially in light of the growth of social [...]

• Friday links: reluctant relocators
  abnormalreturns, October 29th, 2010 at 1:03 pm, Comments: 0

  Quote of the day Eric Falkenstein, “US Treasuries are not insurance any more than tech stocks were insurance in 1999.”  (Falkenblog) Markets How the market [...]

• Friday screencast: selling seasonal effects
  abnormalreturns, October 29th, 2010 at 12:36 pm, Comments: 0

  A recently published research paper takes a very long term look at a variety of seasonal effects.  Although the notion of seasonal effects is thrown [...]

• ARTV with Mebane Faber
  abnormalreturns, October 29th, 2010 at 12:31 pm, Comments: 0

  Last night we spoke with Mebane Faber (@mebfaber) on StockTwits TV.  We spent the first half of the show discussing the research supporting market timing [...]

• Thursday links: taking a shot
  abnormalreturns, October 28th, 2010 at 7:52 pm, Comments: 0

  Quote of the day Joe Weisenthal, “Bill Gross doesn’t have to write a long monthly letter that he posts on his website. He does it [...]

• Thursday screencast: enter the rare earth ETF
  abnormalreturns, October 28th, 2010 at 12:24 pm, Comments: 0

  The rare earth metals theme is not unlike others that have erupted into bubbles.  We all know rare earth metals are important, not unlike the [...]

• Wednesday links: choppy and messy
  abnormalreturns, October 27th, 2010 at 12:35 pm, Comments: 0

  Quote of the day Carl Richards, “And therein lies the risk of investing based on the Greater Fool Theory: It’s awfully difficult to know when [...]