What trades are you talking about??? You are clearly mistaking your trading world for the problems faced by social scientists of modeling. Modeling involves...
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Dalton Mota
thedalton1
Dec 1, 2001 7:06 pm
Great post Peter. I do agree with most of what you wrote about science. Actually, i think of behavioural finance as the science (or the art) of reading the...
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Bob Bronson
bobbronson2001
Dec 1, 2001 7:21 pm
Q "What trades are you talking about???" A Trades in your theory of non-overlapping "disperse information" as I explained. Your personalistic evaluations are -...
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Peter R. Locke
peterlocke_98
Dec 1, 2001 7:30 pm
... From: Bob Bronson [mailto:bob@...] Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 2:21 PM To: Behavioral-Finance@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: Fw:...
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Peter R. Locke
peterlocke_98
Dec 1, 2001 7:31 pm
Thanks...somebody gets it, I guess. Great post Peter. I do agree with most of what you wrote about science. Actually, i think of behavioural finance as the ...
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Bob Bronson
bobbronson2001
Dec 1, 2001 7:46 pm
Why wouldn't the Efficient Frontier, which has demonstrable negative prospective value as it is only a hindsight point-to-point best fit to highly cyclical...
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Bob Bronson
bobbronson2001
Dec 1, 2001 7:47 pm
Is this the best that you can do, or are you working on an answer? ... From: Peter R. Locke [mailto:plocke@...] Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 12:31 PM ...
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Peter R. Locke
peterlocke_98
Dec 1, 2001 7:58 pm
I didnt see a question, just preaching. I think I've had it. Sorry. Just a failure to communicate. I've had 1 or 2 students with the same sorts of issues...
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Martin Sewell
martinsewell1
Dec 1, 2001 8:17 pm
Frequently Asked Questions in Mathematics: Why is there no Nobel in mathematics? ...
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Daniel Yabe Milanez
tuba2000br
Dec 1, 2001 8:59 pm
Dear Members, Could I say that the financial regulation today keeps the "unbounded rationality" principle and look for eliminate information assymetries and ...
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Bob Bronson
bobbronson2001
Dec 1, 2001 9:10 pm
Fun article, which raises the game theory question of what degree of reflection is necessary to "beat" the capital markets. We would suggest it is only the...
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Bob Bronson
bobbronson2001
Dec 1, 2001 9:19 pm
Fine, Peter, but the problem is I am not your student, and you have a lot to learn yourself. My responses were defensive because you chose not to discuss the...
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Bob Bronson
bobbronson2001
Dec 1, 2001 9:53 pm
I think this question leads to an important understanding of the causes of the non-normal distribution of stock market returns, at least for the short term...
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leif_ericssen@...
leif_ericssen
Dec 4, 2001 11:14 pm
How do they differ in their performance, rationale and turnover from traditional investment strategies? Jan...
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Peter R. Locke
peterlocke_98
Dec 5, 2001 12:45 am
Are these quantitative 'arbitrage39; strategies, such as LTCM...they should be zero beta, with forecasted returns based on market inefficiencies/mispricing,...
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yang jun
yang_jun008
Dec 5, 2001 1:46 am
According to Richard Bernstein and Lisa Kirschner's article in <Quantitive Strategy Update>(11/21/2001),No Matter How You Measure,High quality is Cheap.Why...
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MJS
kindofmike
Dec 5, 2001 1:59 am
There is a wide variety of quantitiative investment strategies that can be applied to any type of securities. On the aggregate, performance is the same as ...
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annette schulz
annette_schulz
Dec 5, 2001 5:18 pm
Who are you?? I have to write an important essay about "behavioral finance" and I have al lot of problems.... I just red your e-mail about that theme.....you39;...
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Martin Sewell
martinsewell1
Dec 5, 2001 11:24 pm
Annette ... Search the archives here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Behavioral-Finance Peter Greenfinch39;s excellently maintained BF keywords/FAQ: ...
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Jaffray Woodriff
jaffray48
Dec 6, 2001 2:30 pm
Morgan, A long time ago you recommended some books and gave me some very interesting advice. I wanted to thank you for that correspondence. I am slowly working...
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annette schulz
annette_schulz
Dec 6, 2001 6:08 pm
Hello Martin, it' s very nice. Thanks a lot. Annette ... Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com...
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leif_ericssen
Dec 6, 2001 6:50 pm
Not convergence trading type stuff (a lowest cost business anyway, I'd think); I'm thinking of funds that select stocks with computer models out of an index...
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Peter R. Locke
peterlocke_98
Dec 6, 2001 7:43 pm
Seems like the Motley Fool approach is close to this. A well diversified, but well researched portfolio. I doubt that there would be much of a gain relative...
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leif_ericssen
Dec 6, 2001 9:32 pm
I think there's a misunderstanding? How is time a factor? An investment advisor managing portfolios (for 1/2% fee?) runs the models and does what they indicate...
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Peter R. Locke
peterlocke_98
Dec 6, 2001 9:38 pm
Then it sounds like Magellan or any other active fund, but I thin 1/2% is low for an actively managed fund. Thats really the issue. If the fee is too high,...
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leif_ericssen
Dec 6, 2001 10:20 pm
True, the average advisory fee is probably around 1%, including the mutual fund organisations that manage portfolios in-house. I think that outsourced...
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leif_ericssen
Dec 7, 2001 12:01 am
... about ... we'd be ... *grins* Here be Dragons!...
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leif_ericssen
Dec 7, 2001 12:07 am
I imagine that's so, but I'm wondering if they differ much in their results from traditional fundamental analysis driven investing. Also, I must confess I'm...
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leif_ericssen
Dec 7, 2001 4:27 am
On looking at mutual funds, I think that quants try to create portfolios with a superior risk/return (in MPT terms), by mining for various factors that appear...
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Peter R. Locke
peterlocke_98
Dec 7, 2001 2:47 pm
Feudalism You have two cow. Your lord takes some of the milk. Fascism You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them and sells...