Archive for October, 2007

While The College Analysts Get Pummeled, I Put On My Gloves

As can often be the case in the Blogosphere, bloggers meet other bloggers. Weeks ago, I met the College Analysts because I stepped forward to investigate the possibility of some traffic exchange. After learning that any exchange would be rather inequitable (I would receive far more attention than I could possibly give), we both agreed […]

A Reader, Zlatko, Initiates Discussion About Prospect Theory

In response to my article regarding my intention to never take a loss, a very helpful reader, Zlatko, dished up some very tasty food for thought. He brought up the topic of Prospect Theory, a theory I didn’t, at the time, know anything directly about. I replied that I wanted to do some snooping, and […]

Very Large Dataset Analysis #1 – The Impact Of Stock Price On Gains

Have you ever heard the supposition that higher priced stocks tend to perform better than lower priced stocks? Arguments against this supposition will remind us that stock prices ultimately are irrelevant; that, should you have two identical companies, with one whose stock price is half the other’s (i.e. trading at $10 vs. $20), all this […]

The Best Stock Trading In The World Is Hijacked

As promised here and here, the winner of the Starbucks gift card contest has elected to hijack a blog post.
[Wait! Wait! Please…no…not in the trunk! (muffled sounds follow)]
Is it fair, when given the opportunity to hijack another person’s blog for a brief moment, to offer him a block of text which gives praise to the […]

The Very Large Dataset Project

I once took a statistics course taught by an Iranian. Whether it was due to the teaching style, the subject matter or even both, I turned out to both be very successful in the course and to love it. Truly, a really passionate attitude toward it. But statistics? That revelation should pretty much seal my […]

The Day Money Stopped Being Spendable

That’s the day you know you’ve finally made it to investorhood. Not that money ever really becomes unspendable, literally. However, money, as often viewed, is an output of some function. It is the end result, the hoped for turnout of some function or action. It’s something you end up wanting to spend. The remarkable day […]

Why I Don’t Plan On Ever Taking A Loss

I will start, nobly, with a defense. Why should I defend myself? Simply. Because most sensible people will take offense to what I am about to say. In other words, by saying what I have on my mind, and have had on my mind since I started this project, people will invent one idea in […]

Google Servers Have Runny Nose, Fever

Provocative title, no? I’ve been trying to access The Best Stock Trading in the World for several hours now. The servers are timing out. Everything on the domain side seems ok, so it looks like a Google issue. I’ve tried pinging the ghs.google.com site every half hour or so, but it’s timing out too. Reversion […]

A Perfect Day For Stocks

During these dismal dreary days when the stock market recedes some from a recent crest and people everywhere slosh their feet around and put hands in pockets and take them back out and fidget while they stare at the floor, some of us go shopping. Some see sun where others see rain.
It was with this […]

Completed Trades And Open Positions Spreadsheet Now Available

There has been some degree of interest in, besides my showing completed stock trades, my showing open positions as well. For instance here. And here (this one was the tipping point —“difficulty”?— more like “impossibility” — wow, I felt bad; hope this remedies the labor lost looking WintrOn). Also (as though I should be surprised) […]