The Israeli SpeculatorThe Israeli SpeculatorThe blog for the rational and skeptic investor. Philosophies about investing and trading NOT about lame techinques that work for no one. This is not your typical investing blog Articles
Why Doesn?t The Fortune Teller Buy A Lottery Ticket?
2007-03-11 00:00:00 As a fanatic of free knowledge and information, it troubles me to see so many people are taking workshops about trading from un-known sources, that can cost more than 1000$, instead of just picking up a book which covers the same material, and with even better clarity. note that I am talking about commercial courses ... More About: Fortune , Lottery , Elle , Tune , Otter
Baloney Detection Kit
2007-03-10 09:33:02 For those of you who don’t know, the title refers to the excellent book by the late Carl Sagan, “The Demon Haunted World”. Those who read my blog, know that I’m a skeptic when it comes to my life’s philosophy, and these days with all the knowledge available to us on the internet, I think ... More About: Detection , Lone , Alone
The Trader
2007-03-10 09:33:02 The symbol of all relationships among such men, the moral symbol of respect for human beings, is the trader. We, who live by values, not by loot are traders, both in manner and spirit. A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved. A trader does ... More About: Trade
Option Pricing For Dummies Part 1
2007-03-10 09:33:02 I have created this for those who are interested in the mechanism of the Black and Scholes formula, who don’t want to get into the math involved in the original Black and Scholes derivation. This is based on the CRR model (Cox, Ross, Rubinstein). The biggest revolution in modern finance is the pricing of options. The ... More About: Dummies , Part , Opti
Where Are The Customers? Yachts?
2007-03-06 21:30:04 For those of you who know, the title refers to a book which exposes the folly and hypocrisy of Wall Street. The title refers to a story about a visitor to New York who admired the yachts of the bankers and brokers. Naively, he asked where all the customers’ yachts were? Of course, none of ... More About: Customers , Customer , Here , Where , Custom
10 Myths Regarding Israel
2007-03-06 21:30:04 1) We don’t have the most beautiful girls in the world. We have the most girls who say they are the most beautiful in the world. 2) Not all of us are orthodox jews. Most are actually secular and don’t practice actively the jewish religion. 3) We don’t go around riding camels. 4) The Isra el i Intelligence, Mossad, ... More About: Myths , Myth
Why I am Not Afraid Iran Will Bomb Us
2007-03-06 21:30:04 Note: This blog is usually about financial speculation, but I want to discuss the idea of Iran developing a nuclear bomb and actually USING IT. Living in Israel has it’s own peculiarities. One thing though remains always constant, and I am not talking about the high taxes! I am talking about the fact that at ... More About: Will , Bomb , Raid
China and Israel
2007-03-06 21:30:04 China’s market crashed down by 9% and all the markets have responded by a decline, though not as sharp as China’s decline. I have read the local news and the amount of nonsense that is written is amazing. The usual “Oh it was expected!” and the “It is healthy for the market to decline”. Nothing more upsets ... More About: Israel , China , Isra
Efficient Market Hypothesis
2007-02-26 09:27:01 The Efficient Mark et Hypothesis, or EMH, is a concept developed by Eugene Fama, which asserts that the prices of financial instruments, reflect all known information about the future values and beliefs of the investors about those particular financial instruments. This means that you, the investor, can't outperform the market in ...
Index Funds Failure In Israel
2007-02-26 09:27:01 Although popular in the US, index funds in Israel are still new and not popular or known to the public. It is very sad to see that because of the lack of financial education in Israel, customers continue to pay inflated commisions to funds with sub-par returns. For those of you ... More About: Fun , Failure , Fund , Index
Making Risk Free Money In Gambling
2007-02-26 09:27:01 I am not a gambler mind you, but I am an arbitrager. That is, wherever there is the opportunity of making a risk free investment, you'll find me. Apparently, such opportunities do arise in gambling, and with the advent of the internet, those are easier to find. First, I have to ... More About: Money , Free , Gambling , Risk , King
Trading Volatility
2007-02-26 09:27:01 The classical books about option trading, often emphasize option strategies as to expecting a future move, and according to that, either buy a call if you are expecting a move upward of the underlying, or buy a put if you are expecting a down move. That is a very simplified ... More About: Trading
Still a Newbie With This
2007-02-26 09:27:01 I have been trying all night to try to add a Latex plugin so I could write nice formulas but after crashing my site several times, I decided to let it go (for now)! Hopefully, tommorow morning I'll get my inspiration back and manage to install it, although now I ... More About: With , This , Stil , Still , Newb
What Am I Doing Right Now?
2007-02-26 09:27:01 In case you were wondering, I am now trying to make a program to price option prices based on the black and scholes model. Why do something that has been done before? Simple, I don't know how to program and I want to learn it so I thought what better ... More About: What , Hat , Right , Doing , Right Now
The One Handed Financial Analyst
2007-02-26 09:27:01 It is said that Harry Truman requested a one handed economist : "Give me a one handed economist! All my economists say, 'on the one hand.. on the other." I say give me a one handed Fina n cial Analyst . "On the one hand, there is a good opportunity for ... More About: Hand
A Method Other Than Technical Analysis to Make Trades
2007-02-26 09:27:01 It seems that all the websites about trading focus on Tech nical Analysis . I know why people find it appealing though. It is damn EASY. But I do believe it is pseudo science at best. The problem though, is that it seems there aren't any alternatives other than Technical Analysis to people ... More About: Other , Trade
How to market your hedge fund
2007-02-26 09:27:01 I have seen so many commercials in T.V lately, trying to market hedge funds, and it's always nice to see that ALL of the funds are in the first place in returns. So for you, the fellow fund manager, I dedicate this post to show you how everybody can be in ... More About: Fun , How To , Market , Your , Fund
Why do beginners always get into option trading
More articles from this author:2007-02-26 09:27:01 Everytime, I'm amazed by the fact that when most people get into trading, they choose option trading. They just can't resist the rush that is involved. The problem though is that their education in the mathematics of options is far from good. When I meet such traders, who some are self ... More About: Trading , Beginner , Opti , Always 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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