Monthly Archives: May 2007

Black Swan Positive

I stumbled across a +45 minute podcast from the Royal Society of Arts yesterday which is highly entertaining, in a quantitative sort of way. The speaker that night was none other than Nassim Taleb, author of Fooled by Randomness and … Continue reading

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Health Care SPDR – (XLV)

I went long XLV in mid January 2007 for one of my personal IRA accounts. Its had its share of ups and downs but it doesn’t take a rocket scientist, or a fancy neural net, to figure out that health … Continue reading

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Currency Trends

There was a roller coaster of action in currency markets last week and all my intra week signals flipped once again. In some cases, long term trends reestablished themselves, and in other, new trends seem to be emerging. Here are … Continue reading

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Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. – (CMG)

CMG is hitting an all-time high these days and after eating their tasty food, I can understand why. Good food at high prices is always a surefire way to make your stock a winner, until your fickle customers become cost … Continue reading

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Calculating Historical Volatility

 Hi there!  This is one my most popular posts and I would love it if you became an RSS Reader! The inspiration for my S&P500 Volatility Timing model came from rereading portions of Mandelbrot’s book, The (Mis)Behavior of Markets, and … Continue reading

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Forex Thoughts

The month of May has turned out to be a painful one for me and my Forex trading account. I didn’t trade as much as I did in previous months, instead I opted for more of a “swing” trading strategy … Continue reading

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FXI & Gold Trends

I’m sneaking in a quick post on this cloudy Memorial Day because my kids and guests are all sleeping. I’ve downloaded and updated the prediction data sets for my FXI and Gold models, both trends remain UP. [tags]FXI, Gold, Trends, … Continue reading

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Need Your Help To Build A New Neural Net Trend Model!

As a way to continue to make Neural Market Trends a great place to visit on the web, I’m going to post development details and notes of a new trend model that we will create. I want to, over the … Continue reading

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Currency Trends Revised

This just in!  There have been some flips in the Currency Trend neural net models: AUD – RANGE GBP – DOWN USD – RANGE EUR – RANGE JPY – DOWN CHF – DOWN [tags]Neuralnets, AI, Currency, FOREX, Trading, Timing[/tags]

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Chinese Inspired Global Investment Rally

If the world follows the typical supply and demand economic theory, we are about to witness the beginning of a major global rally. The Chinese government recently loosened laws allowing its banks to invest indirectly in foreign equities and derivative … Continue reading

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CBS Acquires Wallstrip

Congratulations to Howard, Lindsay, and the rest of the Wallstrip gang! CBS acquires Wallstrip for an undisclosed amount but the rumor on the street is $5 million. Not bad for a video blog less than a year old! [tags]Wallstrip, Vlog, … Continue reading

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Currency Trends

Good Morning! This week’s currency neural net models have been updated and all the signals remain the same except for the Swiss Franc. Swissy is now giving a DOWN signal. What’s surprising to me is that my Euro model keeps … Continue reading

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