Archive for December, 2007

A Comprehensive Diagnostic Analysis Of A Misbehaving Stock Market—Part II

This article is part II of a three-part series.
Here is Part I
Now let’s move on to the flip side. For the next ten graphs, the x-axes will be the same, yields small to great. The graphs will show what the fundamental metrics are doing as yields are going up. In the upcoming and final […]

A Comprehensive Diagnostic Analysis Of A Misbehaving Stock Market—Part I

I should warn you in advance that this article is both long and tedious. However, through that length and tedium you will find that it also offers a rigorous education for those willing to step into the deep. The article includes a total of twenty-one graphs which illustrate various stock metrics. At the end of […]

Very Large Dataset Analysis #3 – 91 Good Dividends For Bad Times

After burning up one computer, transferring data to another, then having to upgrade that new one to handle the workload of the Very Large Dataset Project, I’ll be finally posting some results again. In addition to the computer upgrades, I had to create new code that would correct share price values from the past to […]

Kashmir

When mixing the old with the new, one better be vary careful. Careful why? Because whatever hope one might have in preserving the best qualities of the old can be ruined with the introduction of the new. Care would seem to be something that was taken, when Kashmirwas covered by Bond.So much care in fact, […]

And The Winner Of The Starbucks Gift Card Is…

…hopefully a hell of a lot warmer than I am right now . In fact, I recommend that this individual buy a couple Frappuccinoes instead of a hot mug. Russell from Hawaii is the winner. Congratulations Russell. Russell may contact me using the “contact me” link on the left so I can verify his identity […]

The Dow is Falling! The Dow is Falling!

So stocks suck right now. Down and down they go, when they will stop no one knows. How does one react to such forces? I don’t know about you, but clearly, as you can see quite plainly, updated for you daily during the week and at least once a weekend, my portfolio has long since […]

The Aftermath Of The StumbleUpon Marathon

I’d like to think that somewhere in Mountain View, California, somewhere near Google, some weary eyed and exhausted computer technician is just finally putting his tools away after having been called in for a special emergency: multiple hard drive failures in one of their Blogger servers. Of course this is a bit exaggerated, but my […]

Why 281 People Should Sign Up For My Starbucks Card Giveaway

(At the end of this article is an update)
So far only two people have signed up and it ends tonight. The next person who signs up has a 33% chance of winning. Which brings me to a good point: “is it worth signing up?” A little surprised that more people haven’t signed up for it […]

How To Defeat A Defeated Market

(This first paragraph was written with intended complication—to avoid the hassle, you may skip it and still hit the main course starting in the second paragraph—new traffic persuades me to go fishing).
I think different kinds of people react in widely different ways to objectively bad situations. Did you catch the nuance there? I placed it […]

This Blog Is Presently Getting Stumbled — And Hard

As I speak, this blog is getting exponential traffic from users using Stumble Upon. Simply put, it’s getting rocked. This being my first significant traffic breakthrough, I’d like to thank everyone for the thumbs up. It would appear that the main article getting Stumbled is 52 Ways To Profit From The Falling US Dollar, written […]