From Barry Ritholtz’s recent conference (The Big Picture Conference), this deck came from Barry’s own presentation entitled “Behavioral Finance, Neuroeconomics and Cognitive Psychology, and Investor’s Decision-Making Process” (whew, LOOONG title.)
I wasn’t there — anyone attend? How was it? Let me know in the comments.
If you haven’t noticed recent changes (or are not yet subscribed) to my weekly newsletter (Sundays), it appears that some recent tweaks to the format are being well received by the rest of us.
The point of my weekly email is to help you quickly get a feel for all the cutting edge news and analysis impacting today’s serious investor.
I’ve begun adding more links/news and categories including:
You can see an example here and subscribe here.
By the way, I didn’t just randomly pick the new categories above — I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how investors learn to become better and how this information breaks down into categorization.
The changes have resulted in a slightly higher open rate (how many people are opening my weekly message) and and almost double the numbers of clicks on links. I take that as a good thing.
Are you reading my weekly Tradestreaming newsletter? What do you think — do you like the changes?
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A better solution to socially responsible investing (Larry Swedroe)
A recent study shows that there is a price to pay for socially responsible investing: namely, raising the cost of capital for sin stocks. That said, Swedroe recommends avoiding SRI and donating the difference in returns to an investor’s favorite charity.
New jobs package should open up crowdfunding (Amy Cortese/NYT)
A friend of Tradestreaming, Amy Cortese penned a New York Times editorial describing some of the changes tabled in the Obama administration’s new jobs package. This one — with rare bipartisan support — may change the way small businesses raise capital and how investors can tap these new sources of returns.
Continue reading “Tradestreaming Cascade: The news you need to know (week of October 2, 2011)”
Join Adrienne Toghraie, master trading coach, and me on Tradestreaming to discuss the psychology of trading as she shares practical, actionable tips to better investor performance.
In this special edition of Tradestreaming, we discuss:
Mike Egan has heard numerous investment myths bandied about for decades.
In his new book, Your Stronger Financial Future: The Essential 8 Strategies for Making Profitable Investments sets out to correct those misunderstandings.
In our interview, Egan addresses:
Continue reading “Better retirement planning and investing – with Mike Egan”
I interviewed Brandywine’s Mike Dever recently on Tradestreaming Radio on the launch of his book, Jackass Investing (Amazon).
Dever’s done an admirable job making his strategies available to the public (and his returns, too). The August report on the Symphony Portfolio (described in Jackass) showed a return of over 2% vs. the $SPY ‘s loss of over 5%.
Pretty non-jackass to me.
Charles Hugh Smith called the housing/debt bubble in 2005 when he started blogging on his site, Of Two Minds.
It helps to be right and since then, he’s grown his readership to 300k monthly visitors and published one of the best selling kindle books on Amazon in the investment category. Smith joins us today as a guest on Tradestreaming Radio.
Please join us to discuss his new book, An Unconventional Guide to Investing in Troubled Times.
We’ll hear from Smith about what he sees to be the underlying problems in our economy, how it will play out, and how he suggests investors position themselves for the future. (Hint: disruptive technology and hard assets both play a key role)
Continue reading “Investing in troubled times – with Charles Hugh Smith”
In Tradestream your Way to Profits, I discuss an insider trading strategy that mimics the investment moves of certain corporate insiders. This video (excuse its cheesiness) is an intro to that strategy.
Intro to an insider trading strategy from Zack Miller on Vimeo.
I’ve been a fan of Mike Dever and his firm, Brandywine Asset Management since I first 
began learning about mutual funds 20 years ago. Mike joins us today on Tradestreaming Radio to discuss his new book, Jackass Investing— a book with 30 years of hard-earned investment experience. Mike describes multiple myths investors (and the media!) have about investing — and then proceeds to bust them. In this podcast, you’ll learn:
Did you know corporate taxi medallions in New York City fetch close to $1M?
Continuing to look at alternative investments, I stumbled upon investing in taxi medallions. The data show that a NYC taxi medallion would have returned 16% per year on average for the past 60 years — smoking traditional asset classes.
Medallion Financial’s (Nasdaq: TAXI) CEO, Andrew Murstein joins us to talk about the particulars of the taxi business and how he’s grown his firm into the largest financing arm of taxi medallions.
You’ll learn:
Continue reading “Making 16% a year investing in taxi medallions – with Andrew Murstein”
