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View ArticleThe Alibaba Trade
A company known as Alibaba will IPO in the USA this Friday. Trading Alibaba will be risky for a variety of reasons. My guess is that even at a high valuation, there might be mania and the price will...
View ArticleThe Amazing Walt Disney
Today I went to visit the Walt Disney museum in San Francisco. The museum is so appropriately situated in the Presidio area with a splendid view of the Golden Gate bridge. Although I knew about...
View ArticleWhen Losers are Good Company
A few years ago, when I helped create portfolios for retail customers, my research group considered offering customers the possibility to buy the worst performing stocks of the previous year. The...
View ArticleDon’t Blame Lance, Blame Yourself
Lance Armstrong is again a hot topic, given his confession to doping this week. Many people say it doesn’t matter…he’s done. I was never a big Lance Armstrong fan. I never bought his bracelets and I...
View ArticleThe So-So Returns of Losers in January 2013
In a previous blog, I wrote about the strategy of buying the previous year’s losers and selling the previous year’s winners. So how did the strategy do in January 2013? Not so well, but it didn’t...
View ArticleA New Book Review on the Crisis of Crowding
http://www.cfala.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageID=4052#Crisis
View ArticleAn Indicator of Bubbles in the Housing Market
The housing bubble of 2008 was created by a crowd rushing into the housing market. Some have argued that there was no way to determine whether there was a bubble in housing, yet in the Crisis of...
View ArticleDazzling Guest Speakers in Finance and Business at University of San...
In April, the School of Management of the University of San Francisco will host three great speakers in finance and business. If you are in the San Francisco community and would like to attend, please...
View ArticleShould you put your money in real estate?
The real estate market has picked up this year and in some cities, like San Francisco, there is a shortage of inventory and lots of people making frenzied bids on property. This has led to higher home...
View ArticleFlash Crashes and Market Design
In my book, The Crisis of Crowding, I spoke about the crowding of market makers in the Flash Crash and the sudden disappearance of market liquidity. This led to people buying Apple stock (Ticker:...
View ArticleThe Alibaba Trade
A company known as Alibaba will IPO in the USA this Friday. Trading Alibaba will be risky for a variety of reasons. My guess is that even at a high valuation, there might be mania and the price will...
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