After the recent days of heightened market volatility I was curious to check out how the S&P 500 component stocks have faired over the last 12 months: Hmm, looks to me as if the bull market is mainly hinged on those…
In my last post I mused over Forecasts and those guys who come up with them. In my little research I came across so many noteworthy facts and statements on that subject that I decided to collate them in a…
Yaaawwnn. The stock markets in the last few weeks have been rather boring and uneventful. The US-market (measured by the S&P 500) has even entered an unusually long period of volatility contraction. The daily market moves up a bit and…
Two main subjects: Why markets for goods and services tend toward equilibrium, but financial markets do not. Why central banks are useful and what they should do (which they currently don’t). Breaking the 170 page book into nine chapters, Cooper…
Wall Street Analysts are bad at stock picking: Analysis of all sell and buy recommendations in 2003 showed that the portfolio with negatively viewed stocks gained 53.5% (over two years), more than 75 percentage points better than the market. Investing, contrary…
Believing that something is true only because other people think it is. Whether politicians or stocks, people like being associated with things that are winning, so winners build momentum, not because they deserve it, but because they’re winning. This is…