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The “Art” of Market Timing

The Big Picture

Previously : The Timing Mistake: Thoughts & Pushback (August 26, 2020) Market Timing for Fun & Profit (August 28, 2020) The Art of Calling a Market Top (October 4, 2017) DOs and DONTs of Market Crashes (January 16, 2016) The Truth About Market Timing (March 13, 2013) Timing the Market? By Jeff Sommer New York Times, Nov.

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Can BuyWrite Funds Actually Work?

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

For the last ten years it's down about 13% but adding even just 6% per year back in for dividends, 60% total using simple math is a total return of 47% or 4.7% Given that MCN went up during the Taper Tantrum of 2013, I lean toward thinking it was equity beta. The nucleus of non-gameover portfolios will always be equities.

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Bracketology (2025 Edition)

The Better Letter

Duke math professor Jonathan Mattingly claimed the average college basketball fan has a far better chance of achieving bracket perfection than one in 9.2 In Monte Carlo, on August 18, 2013, a Roulette ball landed on black 26 times in a row – the longest such streak ever recorded, with odds against of 136,823,184 to one.

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

The Big Picture

I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. RITHOLTZ: Whereas the — and the market when — essentially didn’t get above 2000 to like 2013 or so. RITHOLTZ: Applied Mathematics, Quants, those guys, yeah. I love statistics.

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What Might Happen if You Invest $100 in Bitcoin Today?

Good Financial Cents

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Transcript: Brad Gerstner

The Big Picture

And I said, Paul, I don’t know anything about managing a public portfolio, but the deal we made with each other. So we repositioned our portfolio at the end of 22, recognizing that there had been too many dollars that went into safety trades. So here’s the math, Barry. 00:44:49 [Speaker Changed] Correct?

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Transcript: Luis Berruga, Global X ETFs

The Big Picture

I did in 2013 the largest banking transaction that the market had seen since the financial crisis, it was a $2.4 And I did the math, and I think at that point in time, roughly speaking, assets in ETS were roughly just 10 percent, 12 percent of assets in mutual funds and I was pretty convinced that that number was to increase significantly.

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