Neural Market Trends

Using Rapidminer to model trends in the financial markets

Entries for May, 2008

links for 2008-05-31

Japanese woman caught living in man’s closet - Yahoo! News
This is just plain wierd. Was this closet not used by the homeowner or was he just to blind to see her living there?
(tags: article humor japan society weird)

In tough times, retailers deal out the discounts - May. 30, 2008
Times are tough. The economy is [...]

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links for 2008-05-28

Bloomberg.com: News
In recent decades, Kennedy has shaped health care, education, immigration laws, the minimum wage and civil rights in America, under Republican and Democratic presidents alike. ALL THE THINGS HE SHAPED ARE FUCKED UP!
(tags: economy politics)

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Mind Uploading & The Singularity

I watched a BBC video documentary on the Singularity last week. I found this via Ugly’s Del.icio.us links. I know that Ugly is a huge Singularity fan and can’t wait for the day it will happen. Supposedly, all of mankind will make a huge leap forward in development and all kinds of [...]

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How Would You Build A US Dollar Model?

Its an understatement that the US Dollar is in a downtrend.  Its pretty obvious which direction the greenback is going from the chart below.

My question to readers is this: if you were building a neural net model to tell you when to go LONG for a sustained rally and rebound in the US Dollar, [...]

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Economics For Real People

I finished reading Gene Callahan’s, Economics for Real People, a while ago but never had the chance to write a blog post about it. I can sum up the book in three words, I loved it!
This book lays out the basic building blocks, in layman’s terms, to what Austrian school of economics is [...]

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Capitalists That Care

My wife and I are Capitalists that Care(tm) and we both sponsor children in Sri Lanka and Cambodia through World Vision. Unless you live under a rock, I’m sure you heard about the devastation in cyclone stricken Myanmar and earthquake rocked China.
My wife and I are donating some money to these relief efforts and [...]

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Undocumented Workers & Inflation

About a week ago I met up with the MarketDoctor for drinks. We do this from time to time to lament on the sad state of the economy and all that’s wrong with this country, while downing a few beers. Our usual topic of discussion is about the rampant inflation rate that’s been [...]

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