Understanding IPOs and IPO Scams
You don’t have to spend too much time around the stock market to discover that there’s something fishy about many stocks’ initial public offerings, (IPOs). The standing joke is that IPO really stands...
View ArticleAdditive vs. Multiplicative Thinking About Money
If you think way back to grade school, you may remember that you studied addition and subtraction one year, and then a grade or two later studied multiplication and division. Each pair of arithmetic...
View ArticleA Bucket Full O’ Arbitrages
An arbitrage is a trade that produces near risk-free and near guaranteed profits. In general, independent and retail traders are not successful as arbitrageurs. We’ll get into the reasons why in a...
View ArticleA Speculative Alternative To Investing Part 4: Hedging & Beta Neutral Spreads
( part 1, part 2. part 3) Before continuing, you need to have a solid grasp of alpha and beta – otherwise the rest of this article will make no sense. Back in part three, we developed a method for...
View ArticleCan We All Stop With The Buffett Bullshit?
The internet is in love with Warren Buffett, and for good reason. He’s been a very successful businessman, and his firms (first Buffett Partners (BPL), then Berkshire Hathaway(BRK)) have handily...
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