There are consequences at playing near the speed of light.
Perhaps it also causes grey hair and thinning wallets.
Happy April Fool's Day!
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Study Shows High Frequency Trading Linked to Cancer
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Some Things to Ponder After the First Quarter
Urgent, please read ASAP.That's what gets done, of course. The urgent.
Not the article you haven't gotten around to writing, the trip to the gym that will pay off in the long run, the planning for your upcoming birthday party, dinner with your parents (who would love to see you), ten minutes to sit quietly, saying thank you to a friend for no real reason… no, we do the urgent first.
The problem, of course, is that the queue of urgent never ends, it merely changes its volume as it gets longer.
Yes, we've heard it said that it's the important, not the urgent, that deserves attention. But it understates just how much we've been manipulated by those that would make their important into our urgent.
via Seth Godin.
We just finished the first quarter of 2013.
It's been three months since New Year's Eve, and most New Year's Resolutions have been forgotten.
As you prepare to face the rest of 2013, ask yourself these powerful questions from Greg Bustin:- What do I want?
- What’s holding me back?
- What’s the impact of not getting what I say I want?
Now get going. It's not just the first day of a new Quarter … it's the first day of the rest of your life.
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The Markets Are Making New Highs – All Must Be Well?
Which countries have recouped all financial crisis losses?
For some perspective on the post-financial crisis rally, this chart illustrates how much of the downturn that occurred as a result of the financial crisis has been retraced by several major international stock market indices.
Based on work by Chart of the Day.
For example, the S&P 500 peaked at 1,565.15 back in October 9, 2007 and troughed at 676.53 back on March 9, 2009. With it's new high, it has retraced all of its financial crisis bear market decline.
As this chart illustrates, Germany (DAX), the U.K. (FTSE 100), and India (BSE Sensex) have recovered most of the losses suffered. Meanwhile, China (Shanghai Composite), Japan (Nikkei 225), and France (CAC 40) have lagged.
While all of these countries are trading above their financial crisis lows (i.e. above 0% on the chart), none are currently trading above their respective pre-financial crisis peak (i.e. none are above 100% on today's chart), except for the U.S.
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Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading
Things are going pretty well considering …
Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.
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Most Successful Leaders Do 15 Things Automatically, Every Day. (Forbes) - China
Denies Allegations of Cyber-Attacks by Army. Blames it on the Tooth Fairy.
(NYTimes) - Obama
Granted CyberWar Powers. (FastCompany) - China
Calls for End to 'CyberWar'. (Forbes) - A
Siberian Winter – In Focus. (The Atlantic)
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Korea Preparing For Possible Strikes Against Continental U.S.
(Salon) - Cyprus
Isn’t Over, It’s Still a ‘Disaster for All of Us’: Steve Forbes. (Yahoo Finance) - Carl
Icahn Unleashed. Wall Street's Richest Man Is On The Attack – Just Ask
Michael Dell (Forbes) - Microsoft's
Explanation Of Why It Loaned Dell $2 Billion. (BusinessInsider) - NYSE
Prepares Disaster Backup Plan. Goal is to operate without human traders in
case something shuts down its trading floor (Reuters)
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When Sleep Doesn’t Help Like It Should … It Might Be The Position You’re In
Front, Back or Side … What's Your Perfect Sleep Position?
Instead of a good night's sleep, it may be hurting you.
Here is an infographic from the WSJ that lays it out for you.
Related articles
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Fund Managers Are Alarmingly Bullish
Is 'Smart Money' Becoming 'Dumb Money'?
The Merrill Lynch Fund Managers Survey shows growing confidence and risk-taking. A quick glance revealed a number of interesting charts and insights. For example, the chart below shows what has happened, historically, when liquidity conditions hit the levels they are at now.
Retail investors love the good days, but traders suspect that the end is near when it gets like this. Click here to see more from the Survey.
Keep in mind, Price is the primary indicator. You've got to trade the
conditions as they are … not assuming that they are better or worse
than they really are.
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Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading
What bothers you most about someone else is often a clue about what you don't like about your own circumstances … or, a political cartoonist could point it out instead.
Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.
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Billionaire Biographies You Must Read. (Under30CEO) - Lessons
for Data Driven Businesses. (TechCrunch) - The
Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food. (NYTimes) - Desmond
Tutu and The Dalai Lama's Extraordinary Talk On God and Religion.
(HuffingtonPost) - An
Ingenious Way Of Using Google Maps To Tell Where Rich And Poor People Live.
(BizInsider)
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Lists the World's Richest People. The Billionaire List. (Forbes) - Singapore:
The World's Richest City. (WSJ Video) - Google
Passes Apple as Top U.S. Mutual and Hedge Fund Holding. (AppleInsider) - Yardeni:
S&P 500 Could Hit 1665 Mid-Year. (BusinessInsider) - Sign
of the Times: Celebrity Mila Kunis Talked Stocks on CNBC. Is that as an
ominous sign for the rally, or just an indication that “dumb-money” is back in
the game? (TDB)
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The Countdown of Life – How What You Do Adds Up Over Time
Are you happy how you spend your day?
Do you ever think about how most people choose to spend their time?
As you might guess, average Americans spend 8 hours at work, maybe half an hour in traffic, a few hours watching TV in the evening.
But what if you looked at it another way – what if you added up all those hours over the course of your whole life? The following infographic shows the tally.
That half an hour in traffic adds up to over a year of your life. And those innocent hours of TV? They add up to 9 years for the average American.
"It's not the years in your life that count … It's the life in your years." ~ Abraham Lincoln
Are you giving time to the things you really care about?
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How Far Is Too Far, When It Comes to a Market Rally?
Have you been waiting around to "buy the dip" on this latest stock market rally?
If so, you have been waiting a long time. And I'm not just talking about the recent 10-day winning streak.The Dow surpassed its all-time high and the S&P 500 is not that far from the tops of 1553 on March 24, 2000 and 1576 on October 9, 2007.
How Strong is the Trend?
The chart below compares each of the equity markets. If a market is
shown to be at 100%, then it's currently at a new three year equity
high. If not, then the percentage number indicates how close it is to
reaching a new equity high.
Also visit the Drawdowns Metric page to view historic equity high watermark charts.
Similar to 2000 and 2007, the economic, valuation and political background does not seem to support the budding euphoria.
But, as Citigroup's CEO said in 2007: “… as long as the music is playing, you’ve got to get up and dance. We’re still dancing.” Remember how well that turned-out?
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Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading
So there is a new Pope. They probably didn't pick him this way.
Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.
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Key Things You Should Know About Pope Francis. (The Week) - How
the Conclave Picks a Pope: By the Numbers. (NYMag) - 5
Things About Popes and Their Names; Like, Why Do They Change Them? (NPR) - Boehner
Turns Down Invitation to Visit Pope. President Obama invited John
Boehner to travel with Vice President Joe Biden to Rome to watch the Roman
Catholic Church install its first pope from the Americas in its 2,000-year
history. (WSJ Video) - How
Rich Is the Catholic Church? Nobody really knows, because religious groups
don’t need to follow regular accounting and disclosure rules. (Slate)
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From Past Dow Milestones. (MarketWatch) - Could
the Dow really reach 36,000? Surge greeted by at least one outlandish
prediction (TW) - Secret
and Lies of the Bailout. Taibbi warns the worst may be yet to come.
(RollingStone) - Move
Over, Goldman. College grads are clamoring to work for a different firm
this year. (TDB) - Amazon
Launches ‘Amazon Coins’ In Its First Move Into Virtual Currency.
(TechCrunch)
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