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So Long, Farewell My Loyal Readers!
Published on 2011-01-06 10:37:00
After 2.5 years of writing, my participation in the Trading Wall Street Investments blog is now officially ended. My career has taken a very exciting turn and my blogging days are finished for the foreseeable future. Thank you to all my loyal readers over the last few years reading along as I've developed and honed my understanding of financial markets. I've been right sometimes, wrong plenty of times but always striving to deepen my knowledge of how markets really work. I would recommend anyo
Recap of 2010 Market Performance & ETF Tracking Error
Published on 2011-01-03 10:36:00
After a couple weeks off from posting through Christmas and the end of the year, I'm back to recap the year. Santa Claus showed up at the end of 2010 to add to the gains while the economic calendar and geopolitical environment presented no impactful news to derail the advance. The primary US index, the S&P 500, mounted a solid 13% advance for 2010 closing a volatile year that included a 17.1% correction from high to low mid-year. The last four months of the year alone offered a 19.85% return
Greatest Jeopardy! Champions vs. Watson the IBM Supercomputer
Published on 2010-12-16 09:25:00
On February 14th-16th next year, Jeopardy! will hold a contest between an IBM supercomputer dubbed Watson and two of the show's greatest winners of all-time, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. This is the first man vs. machine contest in Jeopardy! history and after 4 years of development, Watson promises to showcase man's most sophisticated computer programming to date. This match comes 13 years after the world chess champion was successfully defeated by an IBM computer. Yet, "analyzing subtle meanin
