I regularly get a series of commodity index updates from Dow Jones – I originally started to get these when ETF trackers for commodities began to come online. From my perspective the interesting thing is the notion of time frames that they apply – as you can see from the data below all indices have…

Or is the market no longer going down on bad news.  

And you will need something to watch on the weekend. Best action film I have seen in a decade and as someone with an interest in Kali – it is good to see its cousin art Silat getting a run.  

$20 is an interesting number for Facebook

Things on the tablet for the weekend. Timing is everything: Brain scans reveal the secret of Bruce Lee’s one-inch punch Karate Black Belts’ White Matter Shows How a Powerful Punch Comes from the Brain Kudo to David B from the mentor program for these two Ding Dong, Daily Deals Are Dead ‘Beam Us Up, Mr.…

Last week I wrote about the implosion of Knight Capital a market maker whose minor software glitch managed to almost implode the firm. Nanex a firm that deal in supply data and analysing market movements have produced the following little video that tracks one of their screens during the Knight meltdown. It starts a little…

I get feeds from all sorts of things ranging from HFT, obscure bits of derivatives trading news, physics – particularly string theory (which I don’t understand nor does anyone else) to how to lift heavy things without your small intestine popping out your backside. But occasionally I get something I dont expect. Such is the…

The internet has become so much more interesting since the Russians starting buying video camera’s

Interesting little graph from ft.com/alphaville