just add 100-to-1 leverage…carry the one…

via International Business Times: How do you picture the stock market: a bunch of guys yelling at computer screens on Wall Street? A long list of figures in the paper? Or, perhaps, an ever-shifting, higher dimensional jewel? The latter vision is that of Ovidiu Racorean, a Romania-based researcher for a hedge fund. He has an…

361 Capital Weekly Research Briefing

361 Capital portfolio manager, Blaine Rollins, CFA, previously manager of the Janus Fund, writes a weekly update looking back on major moves, macro-trends and economic data points. The 361 Capital Weekly Research Briefing summarizes the latest market news along with some interesting facts and a touch of humor. 361 Capital is a provider of alternative…

Real Consumer Confidence Returns

“Watch what they do, not what they say,” is one of my favorite expressions. I don’t have a lot of time for sentiment polls – especially of the economic kind – as people are prone to give answers based on how questions are worded, are susceptible to mood swings based on what the markets were…

Introducing the “Hoover Dam of Solar Energy”

I’m not going to lie, a solar energy bull and a big fan of, well, America, this shit gets me pumped… via GigOM: Less than a hundred miles from the rim of the Hoover Dam, just outside of Las Vegas at the edge of dusty San Bernardino County, sits a symbol of how the sun…

The Best and Worst Thing About Investing

A lot of new investors assume that managing money is like golf – where Tiger Woods whips the amateur who steps out on the course with him 100 times out of 100. But it’s not like that at all. In investing, unlike golf, the amateur can crush the pro for an appreciable period of time. That’s…