It had to happen we now have a social media analyst This news is as depressing as the graphic below that shows that Harvard MBA’s are now moving back into Wall St.  

This is a chart of the Nikkei ETF – I have chosen the US listed version over the local one simply because of the higher volume, greater liquidity and therefore better price discovery. I don’t find the panic selling of the past week very interesting, what I find interesting is that these sellers didn’t seem…

This is a chart of the Nikkei ETF – I have chosen the US listed version over the local one simply because of the higher volume, greater liquidity and therefore better price discovery. I don’t find the panic selling of the past week very interesting, what I find interesting is that these sellers didn’t seem…

Amazing image of the sun

This is an interesting article from Wired the science mag. Although looking at the only graphic in the article I am not certain their metric is doing what the article claims that it is capable of doing. If you look at the graphic it began its move towards zero (the crash zone) in 2003 and the market…

With recent events in Japan I thought it might be more appropriate to post something more life affriming from the land of the rising sun. This link goes to a site by Garr Reynolds a marketing and presentation guru living in Japan. Reynolds claim to fame is that he is one of the architects of the…

Amazing image of the sun

With recent events in Japan I thought it might be more appropriate to post something more life affriming from the land of the rising sun. This link goes to a site by Garr Reynolds a marketing and presentation guru living in Japan. Reynolds claim to fame is that he is one of the architects of…

Interesting how trend following never seems to die.

This is an interesting article from Wired the science mag. Although looking at the only graphic in the article I am not certain their metric is doing what the article claims that it is capable of doing. If you look at the graphic it began its move towards zero (the crash zone) in 2003 and…

Despite the headlines screaming that the days of parity are over the Aussie doesnt seem that keen to break out of the current congestion.

Given the appalling week last week it is worth revisiting how some of our markets fared in the short term. Interesting to see that the Nikkei despite being savaged throughout the week only finished down 7.6%.