Recently I have been selling old books on Amazon. I discovered that it is actually a great way to get rid of them. The Amazon Marketplace is a very efficient and fairly easy to use system for sellers. And the prices are surprisingly high.
I tend to read books only once. I have about 10 favorite books that I can read over and over, but besides those I generally never read a book twice. If it makes a good reference book about trading or programming, then I might look at it many times. I take care of them and after I have read them they are still in new condition. That means they fetch a high price on Amazon.
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The Rolling Stones–via Irma Thomas–just needed time on their side. But for traders, you need time… and probability.
That’s where QuantDNA comes in. QuantDNA offers the probability of price movements for assets based on a proprietary formula.
QuantDNA is not a new site; they’ve actually been at the financial biz for a while and are associated with some of Wall Street’s big names. I was impressed with the first version. However, they’ve worked on some upgrades and updates to make it one of the most impressive financial tools out there today.
This is actually QuantDNA 2.0.
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Unless you lived with the Unabomber during the 1990s, you have had a taste of disruptive technology. The internet has changed how we do business, how we communicate, how we gather news and information and even how we listen to music.
Business have been created overnight. (We had a word for Twitter back before the web–it was called graffiti.
And business have gone bankrupt over night.
This isn’t anything new. With each new round of technology, we experience disruptions. Railroad, the telephone, the telegraph, the printing press, the wheel, fire–they’ve all changed our lives. But, notice I said that we have experienced a “taste” of disruption.
The next round of technology won’t change our lives; it will change life.
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Yesterday I discovered Cooliris, which might just be the coolest thing I have ever seen. It’s an extension for browsers (Chrome, IE, Firefox and Safari) that lets you see all the images in a virtual wall. It is absolutely incredible.
I love Cooliris because it is so neat. But there is more to it. We have talked quite a bit about accelerating technology, and that is a powerful force in our lives. Yet there is another piece of the puzzle that most people are totally unaware of: how we interact with technology.
What does Cooliris teach us about how to interact with technology?
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Many people are quite aware of the miracle of accelerating technology. It states that there is a certain period of time where the price/performance ratio of a product doubles. And, that doubling time is getting shorter. For computers, it is down to about 1.25 years.
Computers have a relatively long history, and it is interesting to see the effect on other more recent products. Today, I checked the Amazon home page to discover that they have released Kindle 3.0
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The first version was released November 19, 2007, followed by version 2 in November 2009. So, the first version was replaced after 2 years and the second after just 8 months. That makes an average of 1.3 years per generation.
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To say that pessimism reigns in the market misses the mark.
Fear and panic is a better description.
Conventional theory states that cool heads prevail in periods of excessive fear, just as hot heads lose during stretches of irrational exuberance.
There are essentially four scenarios of how this economy will play out over the next few years. At least one of them will flout the conventional notion that bad economies are time to make money.
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Gold is going up, up, up. As currencies go down, down, down.
Gold and precious metals are often safe investments because of the relative scarcity of the materials–hence, the whole “precious” thing.
Gold must be mined and smelted. That takes time and money.
But amazing technology may change that.
In an article in CNET, a group of scientists explain how they created DNA nanobots to manufacture at the molecular level. The scientists even programmed the nanobots to create gold particles.
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The market runs on information. Whether you’re interested in trading on your own, but especially if you’re considering creating your automated trading systems, you’ll need access to financial data.
Thanks to the internet, there are a range of places to find data on traded instruments–everything from stocks to commodities, and everything in between.
A number of financial data sources require payments. Those payments can be pretty expensive. If you’re an individual, or a start-up algorithmic trading company, the fees to access financial data can be prohibitive.
If you need more robust data solutions, you can still find more affordable financial data services to suit your trading style–whether you just want to keep an eye on your own significant portfolio, or you want to start the next big hedge fund.
Here is a list of websites that provide free and affordable sources of financial data.
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Things are falling apart.
Riots in Greece.
Oil spills and volcanoes.
Bailouts.
Sudden, inexplicable falls in the stock market.
But when we come to this conclusion, are we participating in a unique psychological phenomena that mistakes pieces for the whole? Another possibility, it that the media tends to over-report the negative and under-report the positive. As any good editor will tell you, “If it bleeds, it leads.”
After reading the The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
by Matt Ridley, you may start to understand the possibility that things aren’t getting worse; they’re getting better, much better.
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Technology is used more and more to help you make money.
Whether its quantification funds driven by artificial intelligence, or online stock screeners, technology is increasingly being relied on to increase the income side of your ledger. But technology can also help you with your debt. It can help you lift yourself out of debt problems and help you avoid slipping into debt problems.
And that will save you time, money, and frustration.
Here are at least three ways technology can help solve debt problems:
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is one of my favorite financial books of all time. It's an allegory about a guy who has a terrible job, and how he overcomes challenges to achieve his dreams.
