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A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF POPULAR TECHNICAL INDICATORS I. BOLLINGER BANDS, PART 1

While rarely discussed in academic research, Bollinger Bands are the most popular volatility model.
What Economists Do Economists Favor?

I found this great article originally via Greg Mankiw’s blog.
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What Is TA-Lib?

TA-Lib is a technical analysis library that implements a wide variety of technical indicators. It has a BSD license, so you can freely download it and use it in your own computer programs as long as you mention the authors in your product information. I’ve used TA-Lib, and it is a little bare to the [...]
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A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF POPULAR TECHNICAL INDICATORS I. BOLLINGER BANDS, PART 3

In a recent post, I suggested that Bollinger bands *might* be useful in a trading strategy by themselves but warned that it could be risky. Let’s take a look…. If you had made a trade in the past 30 years based solely on a high Bollinger band reading, more often than not, the stock price [...]
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A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF POPULAR TECHNICAL INDICATORS I. BOLLINGER BANDS, PART 2

While some risk is involved, it appears that Bollinger bands might be able to function alone in profitable strategies.
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A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF POPULAR TECHNICAL INDICATORS I. BOLLINGER BANDS, PART 1

While rarely discussed in academic research, Bollinger Bands are the most popular volatility model.
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Site Updates This Weekend

ixvivxi.net may be down sporadically this weekend for site updates. It will be back up on Tuesday morning, January 17, 2011 after Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
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How Money Works, the Short Version

There are an awful lot of people who don’t understand how the modern monetary system works. If you were to ask 100 people at random what institution is responsible for printing money, I’d expect 70 of them to name the U.S. government. Actually, it’s the Federal Reserve, which is technically an independent entity. Most people [...]
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Cullen Roche: Rail Traffic Shows Continued Economic Expansion

On his excellent blog, Pragmatic Capitalism, Cullen Roche regularly features charts of data drawn from the AAR Weekly Rail Traffic Summary. At the present time, Roche does not see a recession on the immediate horizon. I didn’t see a chart in the most recent edition of Roche’s coverage of the rail data, but much of [...]
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Some Predictions for 2012

Some predictions for 2012: The housing market will bottom out (50%). If you need some property, get the best deal you can, but buy it. If you want to speculate, buy it only at exceptional value. There will be a mild recession in the second half (60%). Things have been slowing down; a lot of [...]
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On Prediction Accuracy

In the past month and a half, I made on social networks six short term predictions. I was correct about only one of these, the survival of the Euro. Fortunately, I did not lose any money on trades or embarrass myself all that much. Since the probability of using a coin flip to making predictions [...]
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