The are quite a number of different stock investing strategies. We can choose which ones fit us best. But sometimes the choice isn’t all about what we want.The stock market is a chaotic place. A lot of things can happen. And, like most other things in life, different situations call for different actions.To be honest, cost-averaging over the long-term is […]
The are quite a number of different stock investing strategies. We can choose which ones fit us best. But sometimes the choice isn’t all about what we want.The stock market is a chaotic place. A lot of things can happen. And, like most other things in life, different situations call for different actions.To be honest, cost-averaging over the long-term is […]
TraderFeed: Useful Trading Tools – Part Four: Stock Market Breadth
Useful Trading Tools – Part Four: Stock Market Breadth
Previous posts in this series have looked at unique data visualization, volume information, and the NYSE TICK. Today we’ll take a look at stock market breadth and what we can learn from measures of strength and weakness across a broad […]
REUTERS/ Mike Blake2013 was a banner year for stocks, but 2014 has started off on a relatively sour note.
Markets are down so far this year, but that’s actually “helped re-establish more reasonable valuation metrics,” according to Gluskin Sheff’s David Rosenberg.In a new note to clients, Rosenberg says clients should keep in mind “that after a year in which the S&P […]
BIG DATA is coming at us at the speed of light in petabytes, exabytes, zettabytes, very soon in yottabyte (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes). The amount of data that is being generated is exploding like never before. And within that data lies valuable insights, new ideas that will could transform and solve business problems and provide new business opportunities.The potential of big Data […]
It was easy to be bullish heading into 2012 and 2013.Profit growth was returning, the Fed was still ready and able to add support to the U.S. economy, valuations were attractive across the board, unemployment was still high but improving, the S&P 500 was well below record highs, and — most important of all — there was much less bullish […]
Scientific American presents Tech Talker by Quick & Dirty Tips. Scientific American and Quick & Dirty Tips are both Macmillan companies.
This is the second part of my series on Big Data. If you haven’t listened to the first episode go check it out now at Quick and Dirty Tips Website.
In the last Tech Talker episode, we we talked about what […]
The data analytics market is starting to boom. Hadoop distributions from big data companies like Cloudera have matured and are becoming more useful as they allow for better ways to perform real-time data processing by using cheap commodity hardware in clusters to spread data and then retrieve it for analysis. Customers are building data hubs that use Hadoop with data analytics on […]
For all its hype as a potential panacea for companies everywhere, Big Data isn’t necessarily useful data. All the analysis in the world isn’t helpful if, in the end, you can’t figure out what your data actually indicates. Gleaning information by interpreting and recognizing patterns in the data, and then deciding on a course of action, is sort of hard. […]
I grew up in and still live in the South. During the dog days of summer in July and August, when folks say, “It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity,” believe me, it’s the heat AND the humidity.Everything wilts. People move more slowly. Business slows down a little, too. There’s a real and noticeable effect.The fixed-income markets — represented by […]
