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.

Original Photography: gbrunett

Today is considered a very lucky day for the Chinese as 8 is considered lucky. To find out why this is so we turn to the trusty online Chinese Astrology Guide.

“For Chinese the number 8 is considered lucky just like the number 7 is considered lucky in the West. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that the Olympic games in China start on August 8, 2008 or 08/08/08. In China you have to pay extra to have the number 8 in your phone number or license plate. In addition, home and business owners like to have the number 8 in their address.”

That’s very interesting but why is 8 considered a lucky number?

“The main reason has to do with the pronunciation of the word for the number 8 in China. It is pronounced “ba” and sounds like the word for prosperity which is pronounced “fa”. Another reason why the number 8 could be considered lucky is because it is a perfect symmetrical shape.”

8 Lucky Links

1. Using economics to predict the Olympic medal count.
2. Synergies of the unpleasant kind: recessions, credit crunches and housing busts.
3. DJIA member trading ranges via TickerSense.
4. Check out Tim’s July earnings $45,000…. Does Tim ever sleep?
5. Freddie Mac Losses to get worse.
6. NYSE Floor Brokers Get New Tools.
7. Guerilla Gardening.
8. 8 Timeless Classic Movies That Critics Are Afraid Of.

Fireworks may be harder to get.

25 essentials for networking success.

North Dakota Oil Rush.

The Financial Wisdom from Fight Club.

3 ideas that are pushing the edge of science.

The good the bad and the ugly of $7 Gas.

The vicious cycle of staying up late.

The problem with Banks.

How to find stocks which make a big move.

Shocker of the day: Intraday price action.

The ratings racket.

Stock market trend analysis.

How big a contribution could oil speculation be making?

Coaching hedge fund and portfolio managers.

Lessons in productivity.

Afraid to trade has a look inside transports.

Expected credit losses vs mark to market losses from Alea.

Sales Tax declines in most states from calculated risk.

GDP still growing (barely) from Econbrowseer.

What MBA students really want from Finance Viewpoint.

Crude Oil hottest commodity on the planet.

Four Mega dangers international finance markets face from Naked Capitalism.

Quant jobs and the Middle East.

S&P500 index and sector vs 52 week highs.

When traders press to hard to win.

Timothy Sykes go’s live with his updated site.

Dance of the damned.

Trading lessons from Nicolas Darvas.

Buyout CLOs used for Fed loans Naked Capitalism.

This is an excellent piece from Naked Shorts Crack prices plunge—Fred Reserve.

The Big Picture takes a brief look at the UnTradeables.

Algorithmic Trading – Key Components for Real Time Trading from Money Science.

The Rise and Rise of Analyst Meredith Whitney from Bloomberg.

More wisdom from Deep inside SEC filing from crossing wall street.

Trader Feed looks at  three steps for breaking patterns of frustration in trading.

A great interview with Activision CEO on Portfolio News.

The Prince of Wall Street writes about Private Equity’s Investment Style Drift.

China Trade Surplus Narrows; Foreign Investment Rises from Bloomberg.

SEC: Doubling your losses.

Top Ten Investment Scams.

Cyber Fraud.

More Investment scams.

Investment scams 101.

From Ali’s Blog food riots and their implications.

Smoke & Mirrors (or What The Pink Panther Can Teach Us About the Market Meltdown) from EconoPhysics Blog.

My Dad has More Money then yours.

Introduction to derivatives from Global Derivatives.