Author Archives: Demian Perry

Data trading for value investors

For all the badgering that the Chicago School has taken in the months following the market collapse, the efficient market theorists got one thing right: markets react fast to new information. There’s a lovely scene in “Fun with Dick and Jane” that illustrates this perfectly: The markets really do react this quickly! I remember an [...]
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Publish dynamic charts to wordpress

Last year, I wrote a piece on how to chart financial data with php.  That was before I discovered the flexibility of google docs.  A pure php / mysql solution with a web proxy and jquery is more flexible, but it requires server access and the ability to set up a remote database.
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Risk: an unconventional approach

The comedian Robert “Bobcat” Goldthwaite had a routine about bad ideas, like the day someone decided to cook with an open flame on the Hindenburg.  Or, in all seriousness, someone decided that it was a good idea to board an airship attached to a giant ball of flammable gas.  What drives humans to make such [...]
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