Reading the Markets

I guess yesterday was “mischief night” for the markets. So happy Halloween. For those who can’t do risk by the numbers (or who can, but find...

Every year about this time I have to make a major executive decision—what kind of calendars and appointment book(s) I want for next year. Yo...

Kirk Northington’s Volatility-Based Technical Analysis: Strategies for Trading the Invisible (Wiley, 2009) is a 450-page infomercial for hi...

I was driving back from the grocery store listening to CT public radio when I heard a pitch (pun intended) for a proposed crowd-managed bas...

I first saw a reference to Michael Shermer’s book Why People Believe Weird Things in David Aronson’s Evidence-Based Technical Analysis . The...

Game theory, an analytical tool in support of Adam Smith’s “invisible hand,” maintains that all the decisions we make are optimization probl...

The other day I linked to a paper by Richard Thaler. There's a lot more where that came from on his Booth School of Business, University...