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eBay for stock-pickers: trading tips for sale online – CNBC.com

* New platforms responding to regulatory changes* ERIC offers analysts to the highest bidder* Research budgets, spending set to shrink* Critics say small funds at a disadvantage* Advocates say too much research “mediocre”LONDON, June 5 (Reuters) – Scotland-based investment strategist Russell Napier gave up his high-powered finance job as a star analyst bankrolled by a big-name broker in order to […]

Stock Market Boom-Crash: Cause and Effect | EconMatters

ByWim GrommenThis article explains, based on transition properties, why a stock market boom occurs during the acceleration phase of a transition, inevitably followed by a stock market crash in the stabilization phase of a transition.TransitionsEvery production phase, civilization or other human invention goes through a so called transformation process. Transitions are social transformation processes that cover at least one generation. […]

When The Stock Market “Generals” Are Sold Into Quarter-End …

By Jeff Cooper at Minyanville.comMany leading glamours and generals took gas yesterday as the SPX erased the lion’s share of Monday’s big spike. It’s been a bear market in follow through, nothing new about that.But Tuesday’s selloff had the whiff of liquidation. The selling in biotech generals like Celgene (CELG)  and Amgen (AMGN), which had recently set new highs, leaves […]

Biotech’s 5 Year Run On Top – Is It A Bubble?

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Biotech’s 5 Year Run On Top – Is It A Bubble?Credit Suisse: Surging Biotech Stocks Have Done Something That no Other Sector Has Done Before – Biotech is in a league of its ownby Julie VerhageWith the Biotech sector (IBB) (XBT) (FBI) (XLV) significantly outperforming other areas of the market, people are continuing to ask if the sector is in […]

How automation at scale can put HP ahead in Big Data services …

How automation at scale can put HP ahead in Big Data services | #HPBigData2014 Cheryl Knight | August 20thREAD MOREBeing able to handle massive amounts of Big Data can help a company keep a step ahead of its competition, and Hewlett-Packard, Co. is hoping to provide the platform to help companies gain the lead. Real-time data in particular can empower […]

Free R-User Discount Code – TEXATA 2014 Big Data World …

Invitation to Big Data Analytics World Championships 2014We invite members of the R-Bloggers/R-Users community to participate in the inaugural 2014 TEXATA Big Data Analytics World Championships (www.texata.com). You’re Free Discount Code is: 2014RUSERS (normally $30 fully paid entry).  Here are important dates for the TEXATA educational business competition:Round 1 on 18th October 2014 (Online)Round 2 on 1st November 2014 (Online)World Finals on 22nd/23rd November 2014 (Austin) About TEXATAThe […]

Big Data Deals: Accenture Teams Up With Hortonworks, Capgemini …

Competition for big data services is heating up as solution provider powerhouses Accenture and Capgemini made simultaneous moves Tuesday, each unveiling a partnership with a prominent enterprise big data management platform provider.Accenture, No. 3 on CRN’s 2014 Solution Provider 500 list, said it had entered into an alliance with Hortonworks, a distributor of the open-source Apache Hadoop data platform. Capgemini, […]

What is Technical Analysis? – All Star Charts with JC Parets

What is Technical Analysis?Posted by JC Parets
on July 1st, 2014

Share on StockTwitsTechnical Analysis of Stock Trends by Robert D. Edwards and John Magee is widely considered to be the Bible of Technical Analysis. Today I thought it would be a good idea to share with you guys Page 1 of Chapter 1, so you […]

Big Data and Social: The Key to Sentiment Analysis? – Social Media …

In today’s world where social media plays such a central role for so many people, it’s only natural that companies would want to get in on the action. With big data in the cloud and analytics tools such as Hadoop Hive, it’s easier for companies to use social media to their immediate advantage.There are many different reasons for wanting to […]

Big Data and Social: The Key to Sentiment Analysis?

In today’s world where social media plays such a central role for so many people, it’s only natural that companies would want to get in on the action. With big data in the cloud and analytics tools such as Hadoop Hive, it’s easier for companies to use social media to their immediate advantage.There are many different reasons for wanting to […]