"Stock" Posts
Fascinating World of Online Marketing and Its Love-Hate Relationship with Google
By Lawrence
My site designer arranged a meeting for me with a famous internet marketing guru earlier today to discuss the marketing plan for daytradingbias.com. It was a very interesting meeting and I learned a lot about the online marketing world. More interesting, however, is the fascinating relationship between Google and its advertisement clients. It is something […]
Tobias Preis: Can Google Predict The Stock Market?
By Lawrence
An interesting talk about the correlation of Google search and Wikipedia page views to the rise and fall of stock prices. It also extends to the predictability of the stock market indices in general.
Google The Latest Casualty Of Hedge Funds Moronic Behaviour
By Lawrence
The irrational investors always make the same mistakes again and again because they act on their emotions. The funny thing is, many hedge funds behave exactly the same way, for a completely different set of reasons. Past two weeks, the massive unloading in Google confirms how unreasonable both average investors and hedge funds can be. […]
Tom Jacobs and John Del Vecchio: What’s Behind the Numbers
By Lawrence
Google Talk on the book What’s Behind the Numbers by the authors. Note: It is 1 hour 16 minutes long. I choose this video because it is a great alternative if you find reading the book is too time consuming. If you are interesting in trading stocks (and the indices), their work can convince you […]
How Fragile The US Financial Markets Are?
By Lawrence
Straight from the horse’s mouth, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-30/u-s-treasury-studies-money-managers-for-threats-to-stability.html Obviously, the US Treasury is sending a message here – hedge funds can buy equities but not allowed to unload all together at the same time. What are they afraid of? As a start, what happened to Japan’s Nikkei earlier this year is something they want to avoid. From […]
WTF Chart of the Day: What’s Wrong With Jim Cramer’s Call Of Buying JCP?
By Lawrence
Jim Cramer on TheStreet, http://www.thestreet.com/story/12027849/1/cramer-jump-on-jc-penney.html ZeroHedge quotes his words with sarcastic comments, http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-09-26/how-lose-32-jim-cramer-three-weeks-jump-jc-penney that’s back on September 05, 2013. People who fall for his argument and are now burnt should learn from this lesson. His argument to buy JC Penny is not logical. It is not analytical. It is a form of logical fallacy called […]
WTF Chart of the Day: GE Tells You What The US Investors Are Really Doing
By Lawrence
GE has a good run since the great spike low of 2009. But can it last? Why do the media stop talking about GE? It is, after all, the bellwether stock of the US stock market because of its conglomerate status. In fact, this GE chart closely resemble the overall economic activities of the United […]
The Dilemma Of Fund Managers With Large Institutions
By Lawrence
Majority of long term funds (i.e. not hedge funds) are all under performing the S&P 500 for 4 to 5 years in a row. Many people are expressing frustrations against the fund managers while some others are having fun making jokes about them. I guess it is not a bad time to explain why in […]
Google “Don’t be evil”?
By LawrenceWhen it comes to legal battle, Google is doing whatever it can do to stall. http://news.yahoo.com/judge-incredulous-google-finds-hard-search-own-documents-123505974.html
The Smoking Gun: GS Telling Everyone To Jump In Finally
Thanks to zerohedge, we now know GS wants everybody to buy the all time high, now! http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-09-04/goldman-goes-full-retard-buy-stocks-because-hedge-funds-suck-also-chase-momentum-and As far as people with memory can recall, every time GS calling everyone to jump into anything …