I love the blog lots of excellent articles. I am looking forward to the book coming out October 27th.

It has been a slow week so far we have had a change of Prime Minister after the deputy and labour factions decided that it was time to go Kevin Rudd. As I am sure most of you know being one of the British Colonies we have most of the conventions of the Westminster System. In Australia we do not elect a prime minster we form a government of coalition parties who in turn elect a leader. This is an over simplification but if you are interested in politics you can read more about Government in Australia.

Also last day of the financial year in Australia, expect the market to be down. Realisation of capital losses and US and European markets closed down.

• We are to small for the G7/G8 but at least Australia is in the G20.
• G20 protest in Toronto turn ugly, surprise, surprise. I wonder if the $US970 million Canada has budgeted for security is enough?
• On  a totally unrelated note I have been listening to Grooveshark. It is just like having your own personal music collection in the cloud. If you haven’t tried it yet I would recommend you give it a go and best of all it is free.
• The cliché saying is that everyone has a book in them, if you need a bit of help getting it out you might find this article useful.
• iPhone, iPad, Apple, Apple, Apple can you say Vendor Lock In?
• What would iPhone 4 sales be if it was not tied to AT&T?
• Got a website? Check out the Yahoo Style Guide.
• Stock analysis using R [via Maoxian]. Interesting I much prefer Python and using the R lib.
• I am ashamed to say I picked up Michael Crawley’s – The R book and have not even read it yet.
• Excellent series on Term Sheets.
• Brett has opened up his blog to post about an excellent opportunity for poker players. I would have applied however currently can’t relocate to NY.
• The Social Network Movie Trailer looks promising.
• I am looking forward to Wall Street II – Money Never Sleeps. September 24th release date.
• EconBrowser has an insightful post on identifying the business cycle.
• Quant research using volatility to predict market direction.
• Quantitative Candlestick Pattern recognition.
• Estimating the probability of a drawdown.
• A cautionary tale from Tr8dr, be carful of the Fat Finger.

Dr.Brett’s Blowup – must read post.

OMG, not again The Death of Short-Term Mean-Reversion?

Hack the Market goes into detail on a pairs portfolio in Stratbox.

Random Roger, putting risk in proper perspective.

Charles has a great post on reading less and practicing more.

Cycle of market emotions.

7 rules for identifying investment opportunities.

Measuring the Long Run Real Exchange Rate – Income Relationship.

Bernanke: Economic Policy: Lessons from History.

Timothy Sykes Trading DVD’s- he has made over $1 million from his blog alone.

Tools for stock market analysis in python.

Building skills in python.

Must have python packages for social scientists.

“Theano is a Python library that allows you to define, optimize, and evaluate mathematical expressions involving multi-dimensional arrays efficiently”

Benford’s Law meets Python and Apple Stock Prices.

Videos

• I have linked to Neural Market Trends Tutorial’s in the past now you can download his rapid miner videos in HQ.
• Rapid-I also has a few videos on the basics of RapidMiner.
• Dunning-Kruger effect illusion of superiority.
• Very, very simple introduction to VaR.
• Physics, Finance and Some Useful Mathematics [Long 1 hour plus].

Links

• China: the coming costs of a superbubble.
• How to maximize profit from every product you create.
• A banking battleground.
• Book REWork (Looks like and interesting read).
• American history right and left.
• Interesting interview with Seth Godin [MP3].
• March madness.
• EULA for takeout food at Dubai hotel.
• If you want to run trading software on Mac and cannot decide between Fusion and Parallels this my help.
• Obama after One Year: Crisis and Recovery.
• New York State Tax Refunds Put On Hold.
• Book returned to South Yorkshire library 45 years late.
• 12 Pervasive Myths About Starting a Small Business

Walk and Trade

via: 8th light blog

1. Neural Market Trends Rapid Miner video tutorials have resumed.
2. Pairs trading with Matlab.
3. Basic pair’s trading in Matlab youtube video.
4. Short video on GUI creation in Matlab.
5. Monte Carlo methods in Matlab video.
6. Interactively create plots in Matlab video.
7. Importing Excel data files into  Matlab video.
8. Curve fitting in Matlab video.

Random Quant Finance Articles

1. Open Source FIX engine, QuickFix.
2. Mathematician on Wall Street PDF Part I, Part II, Part III.
3. Stat Arb in the U.S equity market [PDF, Technical paper] .

Blog Post’s

• Can you tell real from fake market data? via Move the Markets.
• Exports, productivity and policy. via EconBrowser.
• Finding your niche in life and Trading. via TraderFeed.

60 Free apps we are most thankful for.

Why Google wave sucks, And why you will use it anyway.

Portfolio.com has an article on Capital Flight.

The Kirk Report has some very interesting Mail bag Q&A. (If you are not a member of this site yet you are missing a lot of vital info.)

Mike has posted on the rationaliser.

Move the Markets has the Virtual Bars Indicator.

Brett has some interesting reading on trading success.

Michael responds to one of his readers on Warren Buffett.

eSignal learning has an article on seasonality in trading futures.   

The expected value of mouse smashing.

Four days with Phil Ivey video.

Don’t shoot the speculator.

A tale of two bailouts.

Forecasters Overpredict GDP and Employment.

The social life of financial bubbles.

Catching false breakouts.

Largest Sovereign Wealth Funds.

Company Seeks Return of Seized Poker Winnings.

15 rites of passage from around the world.

Why creating jobs is so hard.

Cats do control humans.

Would you trust a scientist.

Pictures of the year.

The Links

Buisness week article learning and profiting from online friends.

Google squares an interesting new offering from Google.

Yaro from Entrepreneurs Journey looks at what motivates a purchase.

Life hacker comments on The BRW Rich 200 On How Not To Lose Your Money.

Problogger gives us 13 Tips for Marketing Your Business With Your Blog.

The EMH a dead parrot?

Monty Python’s Dead Parrot Sketch

Why Motivation doesn’t matter.

Confessions of a recovering spendaholic.

Your credit score V the United States.

Would you work without pay?

No wonder California is broke.

1984 need I say more?

World resources map.

IRS Taxing your work mobile.

The 50 best C64 Games.

Your dad does what?

Not Cute.

Enjoy your weekend.

Links

• It is good to see some new posts on NMT again seems everyone is getting into GO.
• Interesting article on TechCrunch does Google really control the news?
• Zen Habits gives us Seven productivity tips for people who hate GTD.
• NYT Chinese bias for boys causes 32 million gap.
• 12 cool gadgets for eco friendly geeks.
• You do the math, learning concepts rather the techniques.
• Venice to use algae for 50% of it’s electricity.