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Stock Market Prognosticator
An alternative view of events in today's financial markets with an emphasis on Value and Contrarian Investing.
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Author: Eric F.
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Posted on Wednesday July 23, 2008 at 11:32 AM
I recently came across a post on the Victor Niederhoffer Blog about the concept of Confirmatory Bias. I shall reprint the standard quote from Sir Francis Bacon that is used in much of the literature on this subject:"The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. An...
Posted on Tuesday July 22, 2008 at 06:00 AM
Welcome to the fourth edition of the Investing Carnival. Last week the Carnival was subtitled the "Bear Market" edition so based on the partial rebound the last few days, I will call this week the Dead Cat Bounce Edition. KCLau presents How to Calculate Your Investment Portfolio Return? This is a solid primer on how to calculate your investment returns, which is not as easy as it sounds. His blog i...
Posted on Thursday July 17, 2008 at 10:19 AM
I recently came across a post on the Victor Niederhoffer Blog about the concept of Confirmatory Bias. I shall reprint the standard quote from Sir Francis Bacon that is used in much of the literature on this subject:"The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. An...
Posted on Wednesday July 16, 2008 at 03:05 PM
I recently came across a post on the Victor Niederhoffer Blog about the concept of Confirmatory Bias. I shall reprint the standard quote from Sir Francis Bacon that is used in much of the literature on this subject:"The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. An...
Posted on Tuesday July 15, 2008 at 04:34 PM
I just saw this headline in the Wall Street Journal a few minutes ago:"WASHINGTON--The Securities and Exchange Commission announced an emergency action aimed at reducing short-selling that targets Wall Street brokerage firms as well as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and will immediately begin considering new rules to extend new requirements to the rest of the market."Not only will it involve selling s...
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