On Saturday, March 12th, 2016 Bucharest Stock Exchange will organize the 4th edition of the Individual Investors Forum in Bucharest. Similar to the previous edition of the Forum, the format will accommodate both beginning and advanced investors by providing two parallel and specific agendas for each category of the investors. Location: Chamber of Commerce & Industry of Romania Business Centre, 2 Octavian […]
2009 news would have seen Brazil in the top news as trading volumes rose to a record in 2009 at Bovespa. At the market high, it’s hard to find caution. Even if one does find that solo voice, it’s hard to act on it owing to the human tendency to herd, resist ongoing momentum. Now in 2016, […]
Adaptive Market Hypothesis (Study of Assumptions) Abstract Adaptive Market Hypothesis (AMH) embraces Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) as an idealization that is economically unrealizable, but which serves as a useful benchmark for measuring relative efficiency. AMH’s adaptability to changing dynamics of the market suggests that investors are potentially capable of an optimal dynamic allocation. There is […]
I was in Mumbai recently, meeting fund managers to understand where India was on the smart beta road. How fast was investor education evolving? What was the appetite for ETF’s? And what should be done from the regulation point of view to take the Indian markets to the next stage? I don’t know how […]
A few of our readers might remember, ‘The frantic call index’. Once in a few years, we receive many anxious calls. What’s happening to China? Are we in for another 2008? Is it going to be worse than 2008? What do you think? What about Oil? Forecasting is a weak science, whether it is sentiment […]
This is not a popular question search engines are asked today. Investors are more interested in knowing if they should sell Chesapeake Energy (CHK) which has already fallen 80% from its peak at near 30 to 3. Should we not have looked at selling the stock at 30 rather than at 3? Of course, that […]
There is a lot of news coming out of Transilvania. The top physicist today, Laszlo Barabasi talks about Transilvania in his book ‘Linked’. Transilvania was cited as the Silicon valley of Europe by Financial Times. And Transilvania is also the first home for Tralio. So what is wrong with Transilvania? When Transilvania gets global attention […]
Picture Source: Wikipedia Jules Augustin Frédéric Regnault was a French stock broker’s assistant who first suggested a modern theory of stock price changes in Calcul des Chances et Philosophie de la Bourse (1863) and used a random walk model. He is also one of the first authors who tried to create a “stock exchange science” […]
According to Reuters, the analysts are in consensus on Adobe. Out of 25 recommendations, 11 are BUYS, 08 are OUTPERFORMS and 06 are HOLDS. This is not the first time opinion is skewed on one side. Now let’s look at Jiseki. The stock was a top relative performer from Sep 2013 with a top […]
Search engines are becoming smarter. You can ask them any question. And they will have an answer; many answers. Some of these answers will be opinions, some of them visuals, some of them tables, and some of them might just create confusion. The engines will get smarter in the near future and might just ask […]