traderfeed.blogspot.com - 2/13/2009
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One of the most common trading problems I'm hearing about in 2009 is traders losing money by jumping aboard market moves (or adding to positions once they go their way) and then getting caught in reversals. We can think of markets as being either volatile or non-volatile and either trending or ...
Fighting The Herd Mentality
dividendmoney.com 12/27/2008 — We’ve recently come to recognize the herd mentality that’s been corralling the minds of retail investors and how this has led to a ‘bubble’ in U.S. Treasuries. This phenomenon reflects the extreme risk aversion that’s moving ...
Breaking Away From the Herd: A Contrarian View of the MACD
philstockworld.com 4/1/2009 — Courtesty of Club.INO.com :
As more and more technical indicators become more taught, followed…and misunderstood I wanted to geta contrarian view of the MACD. I asked Mark Young from ChartSmarts and Wall Street Sentiment to do that for us. I’ve known Mark for a while and can ...
Cash Best as Record Correlation Hints Herd Collapse (Update3)
bloomberg.com 6/29/2009 — June 29 (Bloomberg) -- Investors are moving in lockstep like never before, driving up stocks, commodities and emerging markets and risking a replay of last year, when they all plunged the most since World War II. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, ...
Herd of Fleeing Investors Have Now Missed 55% Since March
everydayfinance.blogspot.com 9/20/2009 — I can't tell you the number of people I know that yanked ALL their money out of anything equities during the month of March which, looking back, was the worst possible time to do so in perhaps their entire lifetime (if you're reading this, I'm not ...
Thinning of the Hedge Fund Herd - Video Interview
richard-wilson.blogspot.com 5/13/2009 — Thinning of the Hedge Fund HerdHere is a short video trends affecting hedge funds right now and a view of what types of things can drag down performance of hedge funds. These two professionals used to trade for hedge funds and are now providing opinions that some hedge funds had based their ...
Diversification / Fallacy of Composistion / Herd behaviour
mahalanobis.twoday.net 5/16/2009 — Two good slides from Axel Leijonhufvud 's presenation at the 37th Economics conference organized by the Austrian National Bank:
A fallacy of composition
"Do not put all eggs in same basket" is a good rule for a bank
If everyone made safer ...
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