You wanna be right? May 14, 2015. Everyone likes to be right, likes to be seen as intelligent, and likes to be a winner. We all hate to lose, and we hate to be wrong; traders, as a group, tend to be more competitive than the average person. These personality traits are part of what. Gap and go or gap and crap? May 13, 2015.

Some Perspective on Investing Advice. I had a family member ask for some investment advice recently. They had come into some money and wanted to know if I had any thoughts on what they should do with it. Does Economic Volatility Affect Stock Market Volatility? Making it Look Easy is Hard Work. In a podcast post-mortem about hos.

Perspectives on capital markets and personal finance. A Musical Lesson for Investors and Advisors. Is now out and my column. Is now available online and is linked below. Sometimes near Christmas Phil would slip out of Avery Fisher Hall after a performance with the Philharmonic, change jackets, and join some Army brass in front of a kettle.

R financial time series tips everyone should know about. The xts package is the must have when it comes to times series in R. The example below loads the package and creates a daily time series of 400 days normaly distributed returns. It determines how the binding is done.