MainandWall Tv..... See The Bigger Picture.....

Complexity

2011-07-19T17:22:00.001-07:00

Investing Requires a Sharper Focus.....An Ability to See Thru The Bull****MLMOFO....

2011-06-11T15:41:00.000-07:00

Remember The Media Does not EXISt to Provide useful information, it exists to Sell advertising...

To accomplish this end they must get your attention with a headline.......

Silmilarly, Wall Streert does not exist to Provide Investment Advice......They exist to Sell and Trade Investment Products....

Not for the Average Man

2011-05-23T08:27:00.000-07:00

"The average man doesn't wish to be told if it is a bull or bear market. What he desires is to be told specifically which particular stock to buy or sell. He wants to get something for nothing. He does not wish to work. He doesn't even wish to have to think.

....Jessie Livermore, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Balance the Industry Proganda of the Mainstream Media Puppet Shows......

2011-05-14T10:41:00.000-07:00

Retail Brokerage Business Model Failing?

2011-04-25T12:22:00.000-07:00

Retail Brokerage Business Model Failing?

BBC Newsnight: How The West Was Lost

2011-04-17T12:23:00.000-07:00

Thomson Reuters - The Knowledge Effect

2011-03-24T19:10:00.000-07:00

Thomson Reuters - The Knowledge Effect

MW/AlphaMatrix Tv ..The Realm of Information - Old and New and Current Events

2011-03-18T15:25:00.000-07:00

Seeking Alpha - Searching for the Information you Need to Connect the Dots

Content is Bata - Insight is Alpha

Hedge Fund will Track Twitter to Predict Stock Moves

2011-03-18T09:08:00.000-07:00

Bloomberg
December 22, 2010

By Jack Jordan

Derwent Capital Markets, a family-owned hedge fund, will offer investors the chance to use Twitter posts to guage the mood of the stockmarket, said co-owner Paul Hawtin.

Full story
www.delicious.com/mainandwall/hedgefunds_Twitter

Digital and Social Media - The New Bloomberg Terminal

2011-01-28T12:09:00.000-08:00

How Does Social Media Impact Trading?

By Rodger Nachman
January 20, 2011

Seeking Alpha
http://www.seekingalpha.com/

The impact of social media on the stock market over the past few years has been nothing short of revolutionary.

Led by applications built off Twitter and Facebook traders and investors are getting access to information that can change their decisions in a split second, where before you had to wait for mainstream media or channel checking to come back with their findings.

People are sharing much more information now than in the past, which for a trader or or an investor, is the lifeblood of this industry. Low cost access to information and content.

Blogging, tweeting and companies like StockTwits, which aggregates tweets based off ticker symbols, have truly become the new Bloomberg terminal.

As technology continues to get better, speed and access to information gets cheaper and more accessible, and social media sites allow people to have a one stop shop for what they want to use it for.

Whether it be a long term hold on UPS (ups), or a shorrt term trade in Freeport McMoran (fcx), Traders have embraced social media as a way to speak with other traders, as well as bounce ideas off them.

No longer will major investment banks and the big boys have all the information. Sure, they will have more access to information, as they have the means to pay for it, but as time goes on, and more people embrace social media as a way to exchange information instead of just telling us what you had for dinner, trading and more importantly, Wall Street, will never be the same again.

Adding the "Wisdom of Main Street" to the Investment Process

2011-01-23T07:01:00.000-08:00

"Investing has a lot to do with common sense and personal observations. The man on the street frequently knows far more about the state of the economy than politicians, university professors and financial analysts who seldom travel, or if they do , only from one first class hotel to another first class hotel and from one golf course to another. The pulse and vibrancy of an economy is, however, nowhere more visible than in a country's entertainment venues such as bars, restaurants, nightclubs and shopping centres."

Dr Marc Farber
GloomBoomDoom.com

The Internet of Things

2011-01-09T08:50:00.000-08:00

Risk, Trust and the Arrogance of Numbers

2010-03-21T08:55:00.000-07:00

Farnam Street Blog, March 20, 2011

"Projections based solely on history lead to ruin. Projections seduce us into a false sense of security.We don't know what's behind them, what assumptions they make, and yet we take great comfort in the precision of the numbers they proffer.

The recent earthquake exceeded the engineering projections by a long shot. What was supposed to happen, once in a million years, took only eight. Yet nothing about the situation seems surprising. Earthquakes happen, especially in Japan.

When building the nuclear power plant in Japan, it would seem reasonable to assume : 1) Earthquakes happen: 2) they will continue to happen: 3) History has not witnessed the largest earthquake that will happen: 4) Earthquakes generate tsunami's 5) Tsunami's generated by large earthquakes are huge: and 6) the frequency of earthquakes will likely increase. Or, you know, just don't build nuclear power plants in seismically charged areas - I'm sure a reasonable person, without a presentation filled with statistics, would conclude that's just asking for trouble". To read more, Go to Farnam Street on the Sidebar>>>>

What do you think?

The Markets are a reflection of the Human World/Human Nature That's Why Everything Appears Backwards and Emotions Tend to Work in Reverse and often against you...

2009-03-21T10:23:00.000-07:00