Daily Archives: April 17, 2014

Brownian Motion – A Deeper Problem With High-Frequency Trading, Algortihmic Trading, and Their Ilk.

Micheal Lewis’s new book has done us a favor by finally dragging the high-frequency trading (HFT) phenomenon into the spotlight.  It has always seemed fairly obvious that any trading strategy that depends on being a few milliseconds faster than others … Continue reading

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Wow. Is Even Thomas Friedman Tiptoeing Away From Israel?

I did something unusual today.  I actually read an entire Thomas Friedman Op-Ed piece.    Even more unusually, he was writing about Israel.  I have pretty much given up on Friedman saying anything substantial in general and about Israel in … Continue reading

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