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

This article is part III of a three-part series.
Here is Part I
Here is Part II
Now comes the really fun part. Now we’re going to take all the information we have and translate it into something useful: now we’re going to pick some stocks. I think it’s important to keep in mind what it is […]

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 […]

Very Large Dataset Analysis #2 – The Impact Of Stock Price On Gains Within Indices

This is a continuation of this article. In that article, which was simply a beginning examination of what stock price, exclusively, can seem to indicate about price performance, we determined that stock price alone could seem to be used (for the time frame I selected to examine) to achieve a higher yield; higher when compared […]

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 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 […]