Much Ado About Nothing

Every now and again graphics like the one below will pop up. They show either the NDX chart year to date, the top 10 stocks in the NDX year to date, or a combination of the day. Apparently, this is meant to represent some great form of moral hazard that we are being informed about…

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Are Markets More Volatile Today?

When analyzing markets, we often make pronouncements based on our experience and observations, rather than collected evidence. Recently, a fund manager suggested in an interview I saw on Twitter that due to the high market volatility caused by the increase in information flow that investors are subjected to, the market should only be open for…

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