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How to think like a hedge fund manager

I’ve been on an investing book kick lately, and I recently read Joel Greenblatt’s classic (from the 90s), You Can Be A Stock Market Genius.  Michael Lewis mentioned the book more than once in The Big Short, indicating that it was the manual for the handful of financial whizzes who predicted the near-collapse of capitalism [...]
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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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