Category Archives: Exclusives

Data trading for value investors

By Demian Perry | Published: 12 Aug 2010
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

By Demian Perry | Published: 16 Jul 2010
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

By Demian Perry | Published: 10 Jul 2010
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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