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Best of Neural Market Trends – February 2011

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Tom

The continuation of the monthly popular links on Neural Market Trends.  I’ll post March 2011′s results early April. The top 10 posts for February 2011: Rapidminer 5.0 Video Tutorial #1 – Introduction To Rapidminer Calculating Historical Volatility Rapidminer 5.0 Video … Continue reading →

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Best of Neural Market Trends – January 2011

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Tom

I think I’m going to do a monthly link roundup of the most popular posts on Neural Market Trends, as a way to see how popular R and Rapidminer is.  You should note that I didn’t really start posting about … Continue reading →

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Neural Market Trends on LinkedIn

Posted on September 7, 2010 by Tom

I created a company profile for Neural Market Trends on LinkedIn and would love for my readers to follow me on there. You can do so by clicking on the button below:

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Number Cruncher Who Foresaw Financial Crash

Posted on May 2, 2009 by Tom

Paul Wilmott, financial mathematical modeler and all around quant genius, was recently interviewed about how banks relied to much on their (wrong) models to value their assets and how it led to their undoing.  Of particular interest is how he … Continue reading →

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Google Adds Public Data to Search

Posted on April 30, 2009 by Tom

Google announced “a new search feature that makes it easy to find and compare public data” a few days ago.  This is pretty awesome and very valuable to traders who want macro-economic information in an easy to navigate way.  Check … Continue reading →

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Bill Miller Back To Making Money

Posted on April 20, 2009 by Tom

I really admire Bill Miller, he’s my kind of value/contrarian investor. Bill Miller, who lost 55 percent in 2008 running the Legg Mason Value Trust after beating the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index for a record 15 straight years, is … Continue reading →

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Richard Fuld Gets Knocked Out

Posted on October 7, 2008 by Tom

I don’t condone violence but this is funny. “From two very senior sources – one incredibly senior source – that he went to the gym after … Lehman was announced as going under. He was on a treadmill with a … Continue reading →

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Lost Money In The Markets? Throw Stones At The Exchanges!

Posted on July 17, 2008 by Tom

Looks like investors are angry after their stock market hits a losing streak, the largest in 18 years. Some say its because of fears that the ruling coalition might collapse but I suspect its something else. So how do you … Continue reading →

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The Frozen Economy & You

Posted on July 16, 2008 by Tom

I hear this type of conversation amongst my struggling friends as well. Heat or food? Gas or electricity? Medicine or mortgage payments? What to give up? What to cut back? The conversations were everywhere. In the supermarket, I heard one … Continue reading →

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Modern Day Ghost Towns?

Posted on March 2, 2008 by Tom

I roamed around a lot when I lived in New Mexico and I came across several ghost towns. I loved finding them out in the middle of nowhere and poking around in them. If I had more time I would … Continue reading →

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Rogue Trader Kerveil to Name Names

Posted on January 28, 2008 by Tom

Ha! Just as I thought, something does smell fishy in this whole SocGen vs the Rogue Trader thing. I never believed that Jerome Kerveil concocted such an elaborate scheme all by himself. The Daily Mail reports (emphasis mine): Executives at … Continue reading →

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