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I don't think this is what Beyoncé had in mind ...

I recently went to a Beyoncé concert.  Not as good as a Cowboys game, but impressive talent nonetheless.

Meanwhile, this guy has some talent and is covering her material ... just not enough of his body.  All The Single Ladies, will never be the same.  Worth a watch for the laugh.

 

via YouTube.

 

This was fun too.

 

 

via YouTube.

And here is a link to Beyoncé doing that same song a little differently.

 

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading

With Mother's Day a week ago, I remembered that early childhood was hard for some ...

 

 

On the other hand, it only takes a moment ...

 

 

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• How Apple Won the iPad Trademark. (BizInsider)
• The Power of Checklists. (Art of Manliness)
• The Most Thought Provoking Articles of the Year. (BrainPickings)
• The Secret Meanings Behind 40 Brand Logos. (MarketingLand)
• The Science of Mis-Heard Lyrics. (New Yorker)

 

Trading Links:

• What Did Billion Dollar Companies Look Like at Series A? (Medium)
• How to De-Risk in a Bull Market. (Institutional Investor)
• In at the Highs, Out at the Lows. (Attain-RCM Managed Futures)
• Spain Joins Negative Yield Club. (MoneyBeat)
• These Will Be the World's 20 Largest Economies in 2030. (Bloomberg)

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading

According to the President, the new three branches of government are ... me, myself, and I.

 

 

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• The Power of Checklists. (Art of Manliness)
• The Most Thought Provoking Articles of the Year. (Brain Pickings)
• The Secret Meanings Behind 40 Brand Logos. (Marketing Land)
• The Science of Misheard Lyrics. (New Yorker)
• Why We Love Back Rubs, Chili Peppers, and the Sex from “50 Shades”. (Salon)

 

Trading Links:

• Saudi Arabia 'Engineered' Oil Crisis: Says Dallas Fed Chief. (Money)
• A Few Things To Know About Technical Analysis. (Stock Charts)
• Meet The Man Who Wants To Build The ESPN Of Finance. (HuffPost)
• A Netflix for Private Flights: A Members-Only Airline. (Fast Company)
• AT&T Dumped by Dow. Time to Buy? History suggests it's worth a look. (Markets)

What’s Going On - Playing For Change [Music Video]

Here is a different take on Marvin Gaye’s classic “What’s Going On”.

It is a "Song Around The World" recording by Playing For Change.

It starts with an acoustic guitar in Africa, adds a drummer in Los Angeles. Next comes the electric guitar and bass on the streets of Chicago and strings in Serbia.  You get the picture ...

Now listen to the music.

 

 

 

Years in the making, minutes to watch. Very cool.

This Song Around The World is featured on PFC3. The album features 185 musicians from 31 countries.

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A Jazz Quartet Explains High-Frequency Trading

There was an opinion piece on MarketWatch about how information flow influences how often you should trade.

As part of it, there was a video that explained how algorithms effect trading (using a jazz quartet).

 

via Marketwatch.

The Meaning of Money: Listen to how computer algorithms changed the music of the market.

 

Faster trading brings up important economic questions: What are the costs and benefits to investors for speeding up trading? Is there an “optimal” trading frequency at which the financial market should operate? And does a faster market affect one group of investors more than another?

 

Here are a few of the points made:

• A higher-frequency market is more responsive to new information.

• The optimal trading frequency depends on how the benefit and cost balance each other.

• The more frequently the market allows investors to transact, the stronger their incentive to split orders over time to avoid price impact.

From my perspective, faster trading is inevitable.  However, as more traders gain access to it, speed for the sake of speed will lose its appeal.  What will continue to matter is the speed at which a trader can identify an edge and capture its profit opportunity.

Here Are Some Links to Start Your Weekend

In my opinion, facts are not beliefs or opinions.

 

 

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• 10 Famous Geniuses With Truly Weird Secret Habits. (Listverse)
• The Reflex of Character. (Michael Hyatt)
• 10 Jobs That No Longer Exist. (BoredPanda)
• 13 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do On Spotify. (JeoBox)
• 5 Social Media Metrics that your Business Should Track. (TheNextWeb)

 

Trading Links:

• Hedge Funds Have Worst Start Since 2008. (BusinessInsider)
• Will Last Year's Winners Be This Year's Losers? (BlackRock)
• On A 'Rigged' Wall Street, Milliseconds Make All The Difference. (NPR)
• CME Trading Outage Showed That Man Can Still Match The Machine. (Reuters)
• Biggest Credit Bubble in History Flashes Warning – ‘Seek Cover’. (NakedCapitalism)

Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

Lighter Links:

• Obvious: FBI can secretly turn on laptop cameras without the indicator light. (Dvorak)
• The Top 10 Tech 'Fails' of 2013. (CNN)
• How Heart Rate Is Related to Fitness and Longevity. (Huffingtonpost)
• Spotify Year in Review 2013. (Spotify)
• 55 Louis C.K. Quotes That Will Make You Laugh And Think. (ThoughtCatalog)

 

Trading Links:

• BlackRock Is Now the Biggest Investor in the World. (Insider)
• World's Best Economies in 2013. (CNNMoney)
• Wall Street Market Predictions For 2014. (BusinessInsider)
• Whitney Tilson: Lessons From A Dozen Years Of Short Selling. (ValueWalk)
• Algorithms Get Smarter. Speed is giving way to instrumentation and fine-tuning. (CME Group)

Here Are Some Links to Start Your Week

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• 100 Top Inspirational Quotes. (Forbes)
• 23 Signs You're Secretly An Introvert. (HuffingtonPost)
• 99 Life Hacks That Could Make Your Life Easier. (AG)
• 40 Useful Sites to Learn New Skills. (Marc&Angel)
• 30 Inspirational Songs to Keep You Motivated. (Lifehack)

 

Trading Links:

• U.S. Rethinks How to Release Sensitive Economic Data. (Wall Street Journal)
• Which of These 11 American Nations Do You Live In? (WashingtonPost)
• Mapping Investor Behavior. (AllAboutAlpha)
• A Twitter User Is Worth $110; Facebook's $98; LinkedIn's $93. (Forbes)
• A Proposal To Limit Swiss Executive Pay To 12 Times That Of Low-Paid Employees Has Some Worried. (BusinessInsider)

Uncle Jay Explains: 2013 Singing Year In Review!

Silly, clever, and with a more than a hint of the truth  ... Watch as Uncle Jay sings his year-end summary of the news.

 

 

 
Uncle Jay has a website he says "helps small minds understand big news."

Happy Holiday Season, and Best Wishes for the New Year.

 

Little Drummer Boy by Pentatonix

Not typical of what I'd normally share ... But thought this was well done and timely.

 

 

 

Pentatonix were the winners of season 3 of NBC’s instrument-free music competition - 'The Sing-Off'. 

Also, here's a link to their cover of Royals.