Monthly Archives: July 2009

To all my loyal Neural Market Trends readers

Posted on July 29, 2009 by Tom

For the past year I’ve been debating shutting down my blog for many different reasons. At first I grew bored of it, then I had some family health issues to deal with, and now I’m getting terribly busy with work … Continue reading →

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Links for July 28th through July 29th

Posted on July 29, 2009 by Tom

These are my links for July 28th through July 29th: COULD YOU SURVIVE WITHOUT MONEY?MEET THE GUY WHO DOES: DETAILS Article on men.style.com men.style.com: Fashion and Lifestyle News from the Online Home of GQ and Details – His dwelling, hidden … Continue reading →

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Links for July 27th

Posted on July 28, 2009 by Tom

These are my links for July 27th: The End Of Fossil Fuel – Forbes.com – Americans, who constitute 4% of the world population but consume 25% of its energy, will have radically different lifestyles. Production of everything will have to … Continue reading →

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Links for July 27th

Posted on July 27, 2009 by Tom

These are my links for July 27th: Chinese-American Children Sent to Live With Kin Abroad Face Tough Return – NYTimes.com – “I advise all Chinese families, do not send your kids away, no matter how hard, because that loss cannot … Continue reading →

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S&P500 Option Volatility Scorecard

Posted on July 27, 2009 by Tom

For the last two predictions the model made, I had one correct and one wrong. Continue reading →

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Links for July 25th

Posted on July 26, 2009 by Tom

These are my links for July 25th: NASWA WWW Shortwave Listening Guide –

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Links for July 24th

Posted on July 24, 2009 by Tom

These are my links for July 24th: Oh glory be! 8 stones in one month! – Go Discussions – Following the advice of the good people here, I shifted from a few long, leisurely face-to-face games a week, to banging … Continue reading →

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Links for July 21st through July 22nd

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Tom

These are my links for July 21st through July 22nd: YouTube – This Week in Public Comment – OMG! The Great American Bubble Machine : Rolling Stone – Goldman Sachs is SATAN!

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Links for July 20th

Posted on July 21, 2009 by Tom

These are my links for July 20th: Nassim Taleb: clown of quantitative finance « Locklin on science – As such, Taleb is merely setting himself up as some sort of heretical alpha monkey of the quants for stating the obvious, … Continue reading →

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The Crisis of Credit Visualized

Posted on July 21, 2009 by Tom

This week’s data visualization post is actually a very well made video about the Credit Crisis by Jonathan Jarvis. I learned a few things from this video myself and its a fantastic way to see how we got into this … Continue reading →

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Links for July 19th through July 20th

Posted on July 20, 2009 by Tom

These are my links for July 19th through July 20th: Stocks, Oil Rise on Optimism Earnings Show Slump Is Bottoming – Bloomberg.com – “Corporate profits are beating expectations by their widest margins in a year, pushing most equity markets within … Continue reading →

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Marketing Bottoming – Really?

Posted on July 20, 2009 by Tom

Everyone is so hoping that the market is bottoming because they all want to recoup their losses from last year, especially us 401k holders.  For some strange reason, corporate profits appear to be beating expectations and everyone is hoping (wishing) … Continue reading →

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