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The “Art” of Market Timing

The Big Picture

Previously : The Timing Mistake: Thoughts & Pushback (August 26, 2020) Market Timing for Fun & Profit (August 28, 2020) The Art of Calling a Market Top (October 4, 2017) DOs and DONTs of Market Crashes (January 16, 2016) The Truth About Market Timing (March 13, 2013) Timing the Market? By Jeff Sommer New York Times, Nov.

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10 Weekend Reads

The Big Picture

You need to understand how math, statistics and probabilities work. Britons who want to rejoin EU at highest levels since 2016, survey finds Source: Guardian Sign up for our reads-only mailing list here. ~~~ To learn how these reads are assembled each day, please see this.

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The Greatest Missed Opportunity of Our Lifetimes

The Big Picture

Treasury Bond (May 19, 2016) Last Call for 50-Year Treasury Bonds (March 16, 2017) Deficit Spending Should Be Counter-Cyclical Not Pro-Cyclical (August 28, 2017) Can We Please Have an Honest Debate About Tax Policy? This will be looked at as the greatest missed opportunity of our lifetimes.

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The Skew

The Irrelevant Investor

Hendrik Bessembinder An excellent piece from Bloomberg came out over the weekend, The Math Behind Futility , which looks beyond the usual explanations as to why the majority of professional stock pickers fail to keep up with an index. In 2016, the average S&P 500 stock returned 1.5 down to 2.9%.

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The Self Educating Child

Mr. Money Mustache

Many teachers are already using this system to “flip the classroom”, and my own boy and I used Khan Academy to help him cover second through eighth grade math in only a month. Note: because we were so impressed and thankful, I also donated $9000 to Khan academy in 2016. That’s how efficient video learning can be!

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Exchange Traded.Income?

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Part of the math that determines options premiums is the risk free rate of return from T-bills. The way circuit breakers work has made a 1987 one day 20% crash almost impossible (it would play out differently) but a repeat of the Flash Crash of 2011 or 2016 would probably smack the hell out of QQQY.

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Transcript: Anat Admati

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ANAT ADMATI, PROFESSOR OF FIANCE AND ECONOMICS, STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: So, my journey starts where I took a lot of math. I was good in math and I love the math. So, I was kind of, in my romantic mind when I was in my early 20s, I was going to take but not give back to math, that kind of thing.

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