Chris Tate, Author at Trading Game

Study Suggests Hedge Funds Are Good For Markets

Trading ResourcesBy Chris Tate June 29, 2012 2 Comments

A new academic study asks whether hedge funds make markets inefficient and the answer appears to be ‘no.’ “Hedge Fund Herding and Crowded Trades: The Apologists’ Evidence,” is the work of Blerina Bela Reca of the University of Toledo, Richard W. Sias, University of Arizona and Harry J. Turtle, Washington State University. The authors examined…

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Mark Cuban: High-Frequency Traders Are the Ultimate Hackers

Trading ResourcesBy Chris Tate June 29, 2012

Maybe….maybe not. Its probably more akin to pick pocketing with baseball bat – supposedly subtle and frictionless but actual a source of violence. More here

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Trends A Go Go

Trading ResourcesBy Chris Tate June 26, 2012

Just to widen everyone’s gaze. To steal from Mark Twain….reports of the death of trends have been greatly exaggerated.

Smart People Doing Smart Things

History and ScienceBy Chris Tate June 25, 2012 1 Comment

Note to audience – this video contains smart people doing smart things. Do not watch if you have a passion for reality tv, womens magazines or if you have a child with a bogan name such as Alivia, Alixzander, Amarly, Antwonet, Ararahbella or Sierra-Leonie.

The Scam Wall Street Learned From the Mafia

EconomyBy Chris Tate June 25, 2012

Brilliant piece by Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone – I have said it before and I will say it again – Taibbi is the best finance journalist going around today. All the rest seemed to be boring hacks who try and conjure up some postdictive bullshit as to why something happened as opposed to looking…

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Bet On Anything

History and Science, Trading ResourcesBy Chris Tate June 22, 2012

Following on from my surprise that betting agencies present their information in a manner similar to other derivative providers I have been doing a bit of trolling around and found that someone is actually making a market on the timing of the discovery of the Higgs boson. For those not up with the nitty gritty…

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Odd Thing I Learn’t Last Night

Trading PsychologyBy Chris Tate June 22, 2012 3 Comments

I have just started reading The Status Syndrome which is a look at how our status and how the perception of our status affects both our longevity and our health. In the opening few pages I have learn’t that actors and actresses that won an Academy Award lived four years longer on average than those…

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Where The Hell Is Matt? 2012

Trading ResourcesBy Chris Tate June 22, 2012 2 Comments

Matt is back For those who missed the original I find these vids to be a contrast between what we could be versus what we are……

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Well There Ya Go

Trading ResourcesBy Chris Tate June 21, 2012

I occasionally peruse the Finalternatives website. Generally to find out who is going to jail and which hedge fund manager despite delivering sub par performance for the past decade has still managed to buy a $25,000,000 apartment I came across this headline whilst scanning it this morning – Thiel Launches Growth-Stage VC Firm I thought…

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