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Wanna be a Winning Trader?

Friday, May 2, 2008

All you gotta do is wear a red shirt!
Using data from the last 55 years, researchers at Plymouth and Durham universities in England found that teams with red kits were significantly more successful. The results are detailed in the Journal of Sports Sciences.
Previous research has shown that red uniforms confer an advantage to Olympic combatants [...]

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Statistical Trading: When to do nothing

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

The Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science blog talks about great actors and actresses who always seem to play parts beneath their talents. Similarly, one can dredge up a plethora of companies that make great products and offer excellent services whose stocks fair poorly.
Perhaps the answer is simply poor timing. An actor can only [...]

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