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Who is Fabrice Tourre?

Fabrice Tourre is a major player in the Goldman Sachs debacle. I just looked him up on Cpedia:
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“More and more leverage in the system. The whole building is about to collapse anytime now… Only potential survivor , the fabulous Fab (Fabrice Tourre).”
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Behold – The Glory of a New Bull Market

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Stock
Alert

Healthways Inc.
Price (16.34) Rises Above Moving Average of 16.28

Gilead Sciences Inc.
Price (46.06) Rises Above Moving Average of 45.98

Metabolix Inc.
Price (12.59) Rises Above Moving Average of 12.51

United Financial Bancorp Inc.
Price (13.96) Rises Above Moving Average of 13.87

Citizens & Northern Corp
Price (12.12) Rises Above Moving Average of 12.04

Pool Corporation
Price (22.96) Rises Above [...]

FreeRisk – Freeing financial data and risk modeling

The latest edition of Wired (print copy I got in the mail, this story isn’t online yet) had a blurb about FreeRisk.org – a new site that wants to take on the credit rating agencies:
* A. M. Best
* Dominion Bond Rating Service
* Fitch [...]

Oil Trading Below $100

Traders optimistic about the potential damage to the Houston refineries are selling oil in a special early trading session this Sunday. Hurricane Ike has devastated the Texas coast, so the early optimism may be ill advised.

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Forex Currency Trading

To get the best benefits out of Forex Trading it is recommended to have for yourself a Forex Trading System. So, what is a Forex Trading System?
A Forex Trading System is designed to stop first time Forex Traders from diving head first into investing and losing all their money. The system usually comprises of real [...]

Multiple time period correlations

Okay, we now have three time periods covered for every stock in our database – 200 days, 100 days and 30 days. It took a little while to get things optimized so that we could re-run the calculations every days. Remember – we have well over 8000 stocks in the database, so that [...]

The Physics of the Markets

Sir Isaac Newton said, having participated in the South Sea Bubble and losing about 20,000 pounds of his own investment, that:
I can calculate the motions of the heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
It is interesting to note that present day technical analysis has been inspired by Newtonian physics, like the concept of momentum [...]

Prophecy Self-fulfillment

How much of today’s stock market conventional wisdom is actually self-fulfilling prophecies. The study of price action in charts is an activity that permeates all aspects of the markets – stocks – bonds – commodities. Do the “rules” that traders extract from the study of charts evolve from continual positive feedback – prophecy [...]