Fragmented morning view

47 floors of glass between me and a cloudy Frankfurt morning sky.

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Corporate xmas

Starting off the couple weeks gig at a german bank, exposed to the typical seasonal overdose of xmas decorations and people sneezing and coughing. I'll spare you the latter. ;)

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$GOOG navigation on Motorola Droid a hot feature

The Droid also has Google Maps, but it’s Google Maps with Navigation – and it really, really rocks. It does nearly everything the iPhone Maps app does, with the addition of toggleable layers (show/hide traffic, satellite views, Wikipedia entries, and transit lines), support for Google’s Latitude location-sharing service and, most notably, completely free turn-by-turn voice navigation. You can also search for locations by voice, something we were surprised was absent when Apple added voice recognition to the iPhone.

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Watch below, $GRMN and TomTom. One $GOOG to rule them all..

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Insider Buying: Charts

Transactions above 20000.0 $, filed on or after 2009-10-22 23:07:01 sorted by date, dollars..

Symbol Price Amount Tx Date Persons

GLUU 1.10 202K$ 2009-10-22 Dir. Nada,H.

GLUU 1.05 410K$ 2009-10-21 Dir. Nada,H.
MIND 6.88 54K$ 2009-10-21 Dir. BLUM,P.H.

Symbol Totals:

GLUU 1.07 624.000$ // MIND 6.88 54.000$ //
Link to chart gallery: http://finviz.com/screener.ashx?v=320&ft=1&a=1&p=d&r=1&t=GLUU,MIND Check out the latest insider transactions with charts at http://w0nk0.ath.cx !

Attached charts of symbols: GLUU,MIND

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Financial crises and risk management

Financial crises and risk management

author: Didier Sornette, Department of Management, Technology, and Economics, ETH Zurich

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The scientific study of complex systems has transformed a wide range of disciplines in recent years, enabling researchers in both the natural and social sciences to model and predict phenomena as diverse as the failure of materials, earthquakes, global warming, demographic patterns, and financial crises. In this talk, Didier Sornette describes a simple, powerful, and general theory of how, why, and when stock markets crash. Most attempts to explain market failures seek to pinpoint triggering mechanisms that occur hours, days, or weeks before the collapse. Sornette proposes a radically different view: the underlying cause can be sought months and even years before the abrupt, catastrophic event in the build-up of cooperative speculation, into an accelerating rise of the market price, otherwise known as a "bubble." This view implies the possibility of predicting such events and Sornette will describe the current status of predictions that he and his collaborators have made for events in various markets.

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Top: Science: Complexity Science
Top: Economics

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"Why stock markets crash" is still one of my favorite trading books - excellent mathematical models AND excellent tradability.

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Graphic on the findings of the the annual UN human development index. Norway took the number one spot but China has made the biggest strides in improving the well-being of its citizens.

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Penny Stock Alert :)

Six month, 14 day and long term stock charts for CBIS:       Other Info for CBIS:
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An old watchlist candidate of mine, Cannabis Science, is looking like it might be poised for a breakout move. Low liquidity is a serious concern here though, so hold back on the multi-million-dollar positions for now.. ;)

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U.S. Existing Home Sales Data - ADJUSTED!

Adjusting Existing Home Sales for actual prices

by w0nk0

 

 

$AIG and others recently caught huge bids on the notion that existing home sales data out of the NAR was very encouraging (good source: http://www.usinspect.com/blog/existing-home-sales-for-june). It was widely repeated that home sales were UP over a one year period for the first time in July 2009.

I had an inkling that these oh so encouraging numbers might be very skewed by the fact that the actual home VALUES have imploded over the same period. Today I have taken the time to compile the NRA data into a spreadsheet that would give me the actual DOLLAR VALUE of existing homes sold, which I find to be a way more insightful number.   As you can see from the charts attached, the unit sales were of course up when comparing July 2009 to July 2008, but in dollar terms, sales are still down a whopping eleven percent. Based on these numbers, sales havent reached the level of July 2008, but October 2008. What looks like a reversal of course in the "units sold" chart could just as well be a bounce in an ongoing downtrend in the $$ based chart.

 

(Data is monthly data scaled up to an annualizied projection based on single month data points. Data source: National Association of Realtors)

 

 

If you've been seeing an end of the housing slump in the widely available data - you'd better look beyond the optimistic numbers that all the talking heads like to repeat..

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