This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here are bits of each of them: Who eats whom? — Will robots eat us? Or will we eat robots? Both technophiles and -phobes have hungered to learn which will happen first. The answer has now arrived, in a report from a team at […]
“The emerging [hedge fund] manager who goes out and buys a fancy sports car right off the bat is someone you probably want to avoid.” – informed an article in Business Insider (Singapore), February 2016. But was the statement measurably valid? To find out Stephen Brown, Yan Lu, Sugata Ray and Melvyn Teo set up […]
If you’re interested in the role that folklore might have to play in the world of high finance and banking, may we recommend an article in the journal Folklore, Volume 124, Issue 3, 2013? Where author Robert McDowall, who holds a Law degree (LLB Hons) from University College London, and is based in the UK […]
A researcher named Fock, together with some colleagues, throws water on a financial investment practice called “candlestick analysis”: “Performance of Candlestick Analysis on Intraday Futures Data,” J. Henning Fock, et. al., Journal of Derivatives, Fall 2005, Vol. 13, No. 1: pp. 28-40. The authors write: “Many practitioners use technical trading in derivatives markets, especially futures. […]