Showing posts with label Benoit Mandelbrot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Benoit Mandelbrot. Show all posts
Sunday, November 04, 2012

The Likely Impact of US Presidential Elections on the Stock Markets

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Thus elections, quite apart from who won them, performed a powerful cultural function for the elites. To the degree that -everyone had a ri...
Friday, November 11, 2011

Quote of the Day: Financial Markets will Never Be an Exact Science

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The factors that determine activity on the Exchange are innumerable, with events, current or expected, often bearing no apparent relation...
Thursday, November 03, 2011

Quote of the Day: Discontinuity

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Financial prices certainly jump, skip, and leap—up and down. In fact, I contend the capacity for jumps, or discontinuity, is the principa...
Sunday, August 14, 2011

How Reliable is the S&P’s ‘Death Cross’ Pattern?

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Mechanical chartists say that with the recent stock market collapse, the technical picture of the US S&P 500 have been irreparably deter...
Sunday, November 07, 2010

Should We Chart Read Market Actions From QE 2.0?

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``We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present." - Adlai E. Stevenson Now we kn...
Monday, January 25, 2010

Analyzing Predictions

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“I’ve been dealing with these big mathematical models of forecasting the economy…I’ve been in the forecasting business for 50 years…I’m no b...
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Saturday, November 29, 2008

Nassim Taleb 'The Risk Maverick': We May Be Experiencing Something That Is Vastly Worst

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This insightful PBS News Hour Interview with great thinkers in Nassim Nicolas Taleb (author of Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbab...