The recent post noted that we’ve been seeing diminished strength in the stock market rally. As earlier this year, a big part of the weakened breadth has come from smaller cap shares. Above are three charts that track market strength and weakness in a unique way. This is based on work that I introduced in August and have since refined […]
Quick question: Has 2014 been an up year or a down year for U.S. stocks?Chances are good that, if you anchor your view of the market to the Standard and Poors 500 Index or the Dow Industrials, you’d answer correctly that it’s been an up year. Less well appreciated is that the smallest capitalization stocks (IWC) are actually a bit […]
SummaryOne can get a sense of whether a manic phase in the uptrend is underway based on pockets of stocks which exhibit irrational outperformance.
The two areas which have been the attention for speculators have been Biotech and Social Media.
If Social Media stocks keep faltering, it would mean risk sentiment in high flying stocks is unable to stick.
“Sometimes being a friend […]
By Matthew Napleton, marketing director of ZizoThe promise is timely access to essential business insight; the reality is a massive dent in the CFO’s budget. So why are organisations still investing in big data projects?For any CFO concerned about throwing good money after bad on big data deployments that are simply failing to deliver the information the business needs, there […]
Big data has become the big thing recently and seems to be all anyone is talking about (besides it being the year of mobile, of course). By “big data,” we mean a concentrated effort to gather intelligence about your business so you can accomplish a deeper analysis.The fanfare isn’t unwarranted, though. Big data allows you to get a better understanding […]
Prediction: First billion dollar Big Data company will be a practitioner | #HPBigData2014 Rose Meadows | August 21stREAD MOREWith increasing attention on the business side of tech innovation, the world seems to be awaiting the rise of the first billion-dollar Big Data company. A recent $50 million dollar investment from Hewlett-Packard (HP) put Hortonworks a step forward in its goal […]
Most ‘big data’ marketing is a waste of time, and here’s whyUsing big data to look at past trends is not the best way to work out what your customers want, argues Peter Swan of the UNSW Australia Business School in this cross-posting from The Conversation.A passer-by happens upon a drunk searching for a lost wallet under a streetlight. With nothing in […]
Zynga learned the hard way that relying on one hit game would kill a company if the farm ever went arid. Now King Digital is proving to be another disastrous one-hit wonder with their increasingly unpopular game Candy Crush Saga.http://valleywag.gawker.com/there-is-no-ev…“There Is No Evil Scheme Behind It”: A Q&A with Candy Crush Games Guru“There Is No Evil Scheme Behind It”: A […]
It’s not new news that the USPS is going through an immensely difficult transitional period at this point in time. Stamp prices are continually on the rise, Saturday delivery was on the verge of being canceled, and office closures and layoffs are occurring around the country. Much of the difficulties come from an increasingly competitive marketplace that’s cutting into the […]
One of the psychological curiosities of the stock market is that we tend to see euphoria when shares are their most overvalued and despondency when they are trading at greatest value. It’s for that reason that sentiment gauges can be useful in tracking market cycles. One of my favorite measures is the ratio of put options traded to call options […]
