Yes, if they dollar-cost average or other mechanical application of their cash flows, because otherwise they undoubtedly would effect buy and sell timing that...
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leif_ericssen
Jul 31, 2004 6:48 pm
I agree. To have a business you have to have customers and sales - and a cost structure and business strategy that is economically viable. That's easy to...
6498
leif_ericssen
Jul 31, 2004 6:33 pm
I think they are marketing, but not spam. That's fair in my book. ... nothing but carefully crafted spam? ... the ... study ... costs ... bad...
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leif_ericssen
Jul 31, 2004 6:27 pm
An investment club that buys index funds (in all asset classes they chose to invest in) would do very well for it's members. Jan ... along the lines of "Most...
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leif_ericssen
Jul 31, 2004 6:22 pm
OK, a 3.7% lag before taxes and transaction costs is a Huge spread, but I don't know how that figure was determined, so I can't really have an opinion. An...
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Tom Smith
g_i_2_boocoo
Jul 31, 2004 12:57 pm
... I don't think I'd necessarily agree with you on that one, though I recognize Bogle's important contributions at Vanguard. Personally, I'd say that Warren...
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Dominik Schoenenberger
dschoenenber...
Jul 31, 2004 5:50 am
I would like to inform the group about an upcoming BF event: The Oxford Programme on Investment Decision-making "An exceptional interactive one-day class on...
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Allan Roth
allan_roth
Jul 31, 2004 3:59 am
You probably had no business being a financial advisor - you have a conscience and sound like a good person who cares about others. While I agree with you...
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Market Sci.com
marketsci
Jul 31, 2004 3:25 am
And this is really where I think the answer lies. People make poor investment decisions either (A) b/c of a lack of knowledge, or (B) b/c it's "sexy"....
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Allan Roth
allan_roth
Jul 31, 2004 3:01 am
The sub market performance is not limited to investment clubs and mutual funds. Thirty years ago, a professional was more likely to beat the market, which was...
6490
A.C.B.
ballasac
Jul 31, 2004 2:44 am
Marketsci: In my opinion money flows into the underferforming funds in anticipation that the economy is recovering and those funds should be expected to do...
6489
A.C.B.
ballasac
Jul 31, 2004 2:13 am
I hhave found that Marketing can be a very useful tool in dealing with individual stock selection. Analysing product performance using concepts such as...
6488
Market Sci.com
marketsci
Jul 31, 2004 12:54 am
To be grouped in the same lot as the penile enhancement hucksters, now that's painful. To the contrary mate, there are 10's of billions (could never find an...
6487
plato363@...
stockguy_01085
Jul 31, 2004 12:11 am
does anybody but myself think that these marketsci messages are nothing but carefully crafted spam?...
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Tom Smith
g_i_2_boocoo
Jul 30, 2004 11:43 pm
I heard Peter Lynch give a speech once where he said something along the lines of "Most people don't belong in individual stocks but should, instead, be in a...
6485
marketsci
Jul 30, 2004 11:43 pm
ACB: if I understand your post correctly (it's a bit cryptic), you're saying that the answer to the first question, "why do they perform so poorly", is...
6484
marketsci
Jul 30, 2004 11:33 pm
Hmmm…I don't trade those long of time frames (I think there's more profit/risk-management opportunity in more compressed time frames), most of my trades are...
6483
A.C.B.
ballasac
Jul 30, 2004 11:25 pm
Market science: If the so called experts have no idea what they are talking about why should you expect the noexperts to know better? In the field of...
6482
marketsci
Jul 30, 2004 10:49 pm
I'm a bit overzealous on the subject of investor underperformance... investors hold themselves up to the standards of indices such as the S&P 500, but between...
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Welly Soewandono
wellysie
Jul 30, 2004 4:48 am
Hi there... Yes, the overreaction I'm looking for is in medium-term (3 months period) and 1 year period, in financial indices which contains about 50 stocks. ...
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Market Sci.com
marketsci
Jul 28, 2004 6:43 pm
Welly: I've done quite a bit of research into market overreaction.a lot of my current trading is based on it. Can you describe your research in a bit more...
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Rich Schaefer
rschaefs36
Jul 28, 2004 3:20 pm
Welly, Please take note of where our major indicies are immediatly to and following this November's Presidential Election. If you want to cite an example,...
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mnp01kdm@...
mnp01kdm@...
Jul 28, 2004 2:01 pm
Welly Soewandono,ÄúºÃ£¡ I have done a research of Chinese stock matkets you can connect me by: kongdongmin@... and I will give you the...
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Welly Soewandono
wellysie
Jul 28, 2004 1:52 pm
Dear researchers, I'm a postgraduate student at Indonesia University doing research of Stock Market Overreaction in Jakarta Stock Exchange. Is there anyone of...
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Bob Bronson
bobbronson2001
Jul 20, 2004 1:50 pm
Yes, Eugen, but to follow your lead and further change subjects, we don't agree with the popular Modern Portfolio Theory idea that investors perceive...
6475
puschkar
Jul 20, 2004 1:34 pm
Michael, I would like to first start with a probability distribution where I randomly sample from empirical return distributions from major stock indices from...
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Kaestner
kaestnermichael
Jul 20, 2004 9:24 am
Hello ! As I see, my understanding was biased... ;-) While I understand the research interest for Probability Density function families, I don't get it here......
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puschkar
Jul 20, 2004 9:02 am
Hi! My question was more directed to the empirical probability distributions (PD). here I know only of ibbotson research offering data but unfortunately not...
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Fritz
fritzmasterus
Jul 18, 2004 4:02 pm
Check this website........ http://www.aimrpubs.org/cfa/issues/v27n4/toc.html <http://www.aimrpubs.org/images/cfa_bullet_halfmoon.gif> The Relative Performance...
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plato363@...
stockguy_01085
Jul 18, 2004 2:22 pm
Does anyone have (or know where to find) the following research paper The Relative Performance of Mid-Cap Stock Indexes by Michael J. Zwecher Thanks...
