Posts tagged as: research

Join the dark side

0 comments / March 13, 2009

Trading is thin, and analysts from Goldman seem to have enough time left to do some silly research. Today analyst Peter Berezin announced holding overnight positions returned nice profits over the last 15 years. Buying at the close and selling in the opening yielded a 309% profit. The other way around, buying at the openingRead more

Lies, statistics and bubble charts

0 comments / January 22, 2009

“There are three types of lies – lies, damn lies, and statistics”, a famous quote attributed to the British politician Benjamin Disraeli. As of today we can add the bubble charts. Researchers from JP Morgan messed up their data on the capitalization of banking stocks terribly. The lay offs apparently have reached the researchers inRead more