Monday, June 19, 2006
Sunday, April 23, 2006
YHOO vs GOOG
the single most popular financial analysis done by computer science geeks in the last two years...
relevant links:
Thursday, March 23, 2006
efa
year long grah. I have ogften found graphical analysis to tell more and fabricate more than any numerical analysis. yahoo should sue google by the way about google linking google finance to a tiocker symbol search now. anyway for comparison i have to go to the second link now. well comping bak to he main point. I feel mdy has a much lower potential downside than SPY which has less risk than qqqq which is less than efa.
Sunday, March 19, 2006
more on google...
following up on my last post about investing in google and I in a vague imitation of nejamin graham's principles chose Dell over google, it turns out that as far thevalue of the investments is concerned both would have been rather rotten for the last two months but google lost almost 33% whereas dell lost 2%. the overall market ( snp ) made 2%. I have been reading the little book that beats the market,. I like the guy's appraoching to selling investment advice.
Monday, January 16, 2006
Can google still go up?
I guess that is not the question hedge fund managers look at. That is the question everybody else, the spectators of the stock market, look at and people put their money in these stocks thinking that maybe everybody else was right and they were wrong not bettng on it.. so let's correct our mistakes. But the truth is that the best fund managers bet on stocks whose names don't matter to them. In google's case if t can go up good for it and all its employess. Personally I think Dell has better chances of a 50% increase in the next two years, given the proactive thought process shown by upper management recently. SO although it's regression line is rather steeply low, it's good enough for me.
Sunday, April 03, 2005
Program Trading
Program trading in the week ended March 25 accounted for 55.7%, or an average of 900 million shares daily, of New York Stock Exchange volume. Brokerage firms executed an additional 550.4 million daily shares of program trading away from the NYSE, with 2.7% of the overall total on foreign markets. Program trading is the simultaneous purchase or sale of at least 15 different stocks with a total value of $1 million or more.
Distribution of motives:
Of the program total on the NYSE, 8.7% involved stock-index arbitrage.
Distribution of motives:
Of the program total on the NYSE, 8.7% involved stock-index arbitrage.
Thursday, March 31, 2005
hedge fund managers
Hedge fund mangers have some advantages: they can act quickly on both the
purchasing and sale side, although buying an entire company does not make
for an easy exit.
Private equity firms that study 100 firms for each one they buy, bring
indepth knowledge of industries, executive talent, operating skills and
regulation to the table when they consider investing in public companies.
--- gaurav
(Comp. Sci. Grad Student - Upenn)
http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~gauravch
http://www.geocities.com/gaurav_chak
Hedge Fund managers vs Private fund managers
Hedge fund mangers have some advantages: they can act quickly on both the purchasing and sale side, although buying an entire company does not make for an easy exit.
Private equity firms that study 100 firms for each one they buy, bring indepth knowledge of industries, executive talent, operating skills and regulation to the table when they consider investing in public companies.
Private equity firms that study 100 firms for each one they buy, bring indepth knowledge of industries, executive talent, operating skills and regulation to the table when they consider investing in public companies.
Hedge Fund managers vs Private fund managers
Hedge fund mangers have some advantages: they can act quickly on both the purchasing and sale side, although buying an entire company does not make for an easy exit.
Private equity firms that study 100 firms for each one they buy, bring indepth knowledge of industries, executive talent, operating skills and regulation to the table when they consider investing in public companies.
Private equity firms that study 100 firms for each one they buy, bring indepth knowledge of industries, executive talent, operating skills and regulation to the table when they consider investing in public companies.
Saturday, March 12, 2005
Investing tips
Seven golden rules of investing
By Nick Louth, MSN Money special correspondent
Last updated December 22 2004
These seven brief rules are really all you need to know to get a good leg up the investing ladder. Most of them work pretty well for ordinary savings too.
1. Start early, stay the course
Start investing young. If you do no more than put aside the cost of a bottle of Becks a day from the age of 18, and don’t raid it, you have already laid the foundations of a secure retirement.
Based on average stock market returns you will have £265,000 by the age of 65. If you wait until you’re 50 before starting, building the same pension pot will cost you the equivalent of a bottle of single malt scotch a day.
Click here for the full details of how youth helps investors
2. Low costs: the no-risk way to better returns
You want all your investment money to go to work for you, not the person who sold you your investment. So, for example, even though 2.5% a year in charges may not sound much, trimming that much off your investment pot year after year will have soaked up a two thirds of your total contributions after 25 years on a fund investment returning 7% a year.
For example, if you contributed £100 per month, that works out as £30,000 paid in over 25 years. At an average 7%, the fund would be worth £69,812 gross over the period, but after annual charges of 2.5% it would be worth a mere £50,027.
The same principle applies to trading commissions and account fees: keep them low and you get extra returns for nothing.
3. Don’t neglect the humble dividend
Reinvested dividends are the cornerstone of long-term stock market returns. They are the only part of share market returns which are never negative.
By contrast, share price returns are only about trying to outwit the market’s pricing mechanism. On average, by definition, we lose as often as we win. But dividends really add up, and their rate of increase is as important as their initial size.
See also ‘Get more from your dividends’
4. Don’t let small mistakes turn into big ones
This is a very important rule, especially for stock market investors.
The moment that an investment starts to go wrong, you should get out while the amount at stake is small. Profit warnings or even small unexplained falls in the prices of shares can soon do damage to your wealth.
Most importantly, never, never, add more money to a losing investment in an attempt to lower your break-even level.
See my article “How to deal with profit warnings”
See also “How to cut losses”
5. Never put all your eggs in one basket
This is essential advice, whatever kind of investments you have. Unexpected events can take place which hit particular shares, house prices, bond markets certain industries or countries, yet so long as we haven’t got everything riding on one type of investment, the outcome should be manageable.
But, for example, homeowners who have extensive buy-to-let market commitments, employees who have shares or options only in their own employer, or bank traders who invest their own savings in the field they trade, are running extra risks. This is especially so if they don’t have much in the way of cash savings should their bets fail.
Click here for more details on recognising and spreading your risk
6. If you don’t understand it, steer clear
This is true both of the complex investment products such as precipice bonds which were mis-sold, as much as it is of investors in technology shares which sounded impressive, but which rarely fulfilled their potential.
If you don’t understand what you have invested in, you will never know when to get out when the warning signs of failure are there for others to see.
7 Don’t fall for quick money promises
There is no risk-free way to become rich, and don’t believe anyone who says otherwise. The slow way to wealth, investing gradually and carefully in a wide variety of shares or in a low-cost tracker fund, is safe for those with a 10-20 year view.
If you fall for a scam or fraud, the chances are that your savings are going to go backwards. Opportunities that look too good to be true usually are, and the more impatient we are the more the chance there is of falling for them.
See ‘get started: why shares?’
By Nick Louth, MSN Money special correspondent
Last updated December 22 2004
These seven brief rules are really all you need to know to get a good leg up the investing ladder. Most of them work pretty well for ordinary savings too.
1. Start early, stay the course
Start investing young. If you do no more than put aside the cost of a bottle of Becks a day from the age of 18, and don’t raid it, you have already laid the foundations of a secure retirement.
Based on average stock market returns you will have £265,000 by the age of 65. If you wait until you’re 50 before starting, building the same pension pot will cost you the equivalent of a bottle of single malt scotch a day.
Click here for the full details of how youth helps investors
2. Low costs: the no-risk way to better returns
You want all your investment money to go to work for you, not the person who sold you your investment. So, for example, even though 2.5% a year in charges may not sound much, trimming that much off your investment pot year after year will have soaked up a two thirds of your total contributions after 25 years on a fund investment returning 7% a year.
For example, if you contributed £100 per month, that works out as £30,000 paid in over 25 years. At an average 7%, the fund would be worth £69,812 gross over the period, but after annual charges of 2.5% it would be worth a mere £50,027.
The same principle applies to trading commissions and account fees: keep them low and you get extra returns for nothing.
3. Don’t neglect the humble dividend
Reinvested dividends are the cornerstone of long-term stock market returns. They are the only part of share market returns which are never negative.
By contrast, share price returns are only about trying to outwit the market’s pricing mechanism. On average, by definition, we lose as often as we win. But dividends really add up, and their rate of increase is as important as their initial size.
See also ‘Get more from your dividends’
4. Don’t let small mistakes turn into big ones
This is a very important rule, especially for stock market investors.
The moment that an investment starts to go wrong, you should get out while the amount at stake is small. Profit warnings or even small unexplained falls in the prices of shares can soon do damage to your wealth.
Most importantly, never, never, add more money to a losing investment in an attempt to lower your break-even level.
See my article “How to deal with profit warnings”
See also “How to cut losses”
5. Never put all your eggs in one basket
This is essential advice, whatever kind of investments you have. Unexpected events can take place which hit particular shares, house prices, bond markets certain industries or countries, yet so long as we haven’t got everything riding on one type of investment, the outcome should be manageable.
But, for example, homeowners who have extensive buy-to-let market commitments, employees who have shares or options only in their own employer, or bank traders who invest their own savings in the field they trade, are running extra risks. This is especially so if they don’t have much in the way of cash savings should their bets fail.
Click here for more details on recognising and spreading your risk
6. If you don’t understand it, steer clear
This is true both of the complex investment products such as precipice bonds which were mis-sold, as much as it is of investors in technology shares which sounded impressive, but which rarely fulfilled their potential.
If you don’t understand what you have invested in, you will never know when to get out when the warning signs of failure are there for others to see.
7 Don’t fall for quick money promises
There is no risk-free way to become rich, and don’t believe anyone who says otherwise. The slow way to wealth, investing gradually and carefully in a wide variety of shares or in a low-cost tracker fund, is safe for those with a 10-20 year view.
If you fall for a scam or fraud, the chances are that your savings are going to go backwards. Opportunities that look too good to be true usually are, and the more impatient we are the more the chance there is of falling for them.
See ‘get started: why shares?’
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