Archive for November, 2011

• Woods, Miller and the broken promise of alpha
  abnormalreturns, November 17th, 2011 at 9:44 am, Comments: 0

  For well over a decade Tiger Woods was the #1 ranked golfer in the world, the winner of 14 major championships and was well on [...]

• Thursday 7atSeven: abundant anxiety
  abnormalreturns, November 17th, 2011 at 7:01 am, Comments: 0

  Here are seven (or so) links at 7AM Eastern.  Good luck out there today. Why markets are behaving in such an anxious fashion of late.  [...]

• Wednesday links: fundamentally opaque
  abnormalreturns, November 16th, 2011 at 1:13 pm, Comments: 0

  Quote of the day Robert Sinn, “However, paper trading can NEVER make one  a profitable trader and can NEVER be substituted for real market experience.”  [...]

• Wednesday 7atSeven: chopping around
  abnormalreturns, November 16th, 2011 at 6:59 am, Comments: 0

  Here are seven (or so) links at 7AM Eastern.  Good luck out there today. The S&P 500 has really just been chopping around of late.  [...]

• Tuesday links: overfit data
  abnormalreturns, November 15th, 2011 at 1:12 pm, Comments: 0

  Quote of the day Eric Falkenstein, “You can teach statistics, but unfortunately, you can’t teach people not to overfit data.”  (Falkenblog) Chart of the day [...]

• Stock buybacks versus dividends
  abnormalreturns, November 15th, 2011 at 1:04 pm, Comments: 0

  Share buybacks elicit strong opinions.  For instance Eddy Elfenbein at Crossing Wall Street recently wrote: I’ve said here many times that I’m not a fan [...]

• ETF blocking and tackling
  abnormalreturns, November 15th, 2011 at 12:02 pm, Comments: 0

  ETFs used to be pretty simple.  Now those days are long since past.  Now new fund launches are focused on narrow niches and unproven strategies.  [...]

• Tuesday 7atSeven: Unoccupied Zuccotti Park
  abnormalreturns, November 15th, 2011 at 6:55 am, Comments: 0

  Here are seven (or so) links at 7AM Eastern.  Good luck out there today. Occupy Wall Street gets evicted from Zuccotti Park.  (WSJ, Business Insider, [...]

• Monday links: conditioned for disaster
  abnormalreturns, November 14th, 2011 at 1:05 pm, Comments: 0

  Quote of the day Interloper, “So we now have two generations of traders, bankers and brokers who in the back of their mind are at [...]

• Monday videos: a really big wave
  abnormalreturns, November 14th, 2011 at 10:06 am, Comments: 0

  We came across a handful of videos this weekend we thought were worthy of their own post.  The 60 Minutes piece on Congressional insider trading [...]