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We, the investing public, like to think there are gurus who can lead us safely and surely to profits. We need them and create them. In Behavioural Finance there has been much study of crowds and their need for leaders. The crowd will sometimes justify their choice blindly and be...

There is no collective noun for a group of technical analysts. Let us decide what to call ourselves before anyone else decides something unflattering like: A Confusion of Technical Analysts. Our language has some wonderful collective nouns for the various groups of animals. We...

The share of electricity generated by different energy sources has changed significantly in Europe over the last two decades. The major story here is the decline in consumption of fossil fuels. More specifically, the combined share of petroleum products and solid fuels (meaning...

Shouldn’t the role of economists be limited to explaining data and to stay away from forecasting? Forecasting is something they are terrible at. They seem to consistently crowd as a group at the wrong answer. Usually when people are consistently bad at something they stop...

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The buy-side is notoriously bad at reflecting critically on its own processes and performance. I find them to be very susceptible to biases such as over confidence. Last night at an MTA UK talk at Cass Business School Clare Levy, the Founder and CEO of the software house...

    Bloomberg’s terminals, heavily relied upon by traders, went down for about two and half hours early Friday causing headaches – and delayed offerings. Rumours circulating around Bloomberg’s own newsroom apparently point to a very low-tech cause for the two and a half...

Warren Buffett’s new yearly letter to Berkshire Hathaway’s shareholders has not been given the attention it deserves. I wonder if this is because economic journalists feel like they simply can’t publish yet another story about how exactly wise Warren Buffett is. I feel this is...

As markets have grown more accustomed to high-frequency strategies, the profit opportunity for such firms has by some accounts shrunk. Once HFT was seen as a dangerous and destructive force which threatened the future of fair markets. This worry was particularly evident in the...

Owen Li, a trader at the collapsed Raj Rajaratnam’s Galleon Group fund said said Tuesday that he had lost all but $200,000 of his new fund, Canarsie Capital’s capital—down from the roughly $100 million it ran as of late March 2014 - a -98.8% performance in  nine...