Capitalogix: Trading

Equity Valuation by Country

How high is high? Here's a comparison based on historical PE ratios.

Most country equity valuations are trading at their 10-year average valuation or lower. However, a few countries like Mexico, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States are trading at levels above their respective 10-year valuations.

Posted at 04:19 PM in Business, Current Affairs, Market Commentary, Trading, Trading Tools | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

Almost time for Apple to release a new phone? My siblings made fun of me for still liking my iPhone 5.

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

Lighter Links:

How to Become a Thought Leader. (Mashable)
Apple's Guidance Implies New iPhone in September. (AllThingsD)
U.S. Issues Worldwide Travel Alert. (HuffingtonPost)
The Creator of the Nike “Swoosh” Logo was Originally Paid Only $35 for the Design. (FoundOut)
Do People Get Better Looking When the Bar is About to Close? (ScienceOfRelationships)

Trading Links:

Facebook Shares Finally Get Back Up to Their $38 IPO Price. (FT)
How Much Are the NSA and CIA Front Running Markets? (NakedCapitalism)
For 70 Straight Days, Treasury Says Debt Stuck at Exactly $16,699,396,000,000.00. (M)
“NASDAQ is owned.” Five Men Charged In Largest Financial Hack Ever. (ArsTechnica)
Time Warner Cable Drops CBS Network From Lineup. Negotiations Between the Companies Failed to Reach a Deal on Fees (Wall Street Journal)

Posted at 06:11 PM in Business, Current Affairs, Gadgets, Ideas, Market Commentary, Television, Trading, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

Summer time and lots of people have vacation on their minds. The royal baby certainly captured a lot of news cycles. The future king was born in England at 8 pounds. What's that, like $12.28 US dollars.

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

Lighter Links:

Trends You Can't Afford to Ignore--From Eric Schmidt's New Book. (Forbes)
Optimism's Role in Success. The key is to focus on the %-rate you need to succeed. (FC)
Time’s 100 List Is Packed With Techies. (AllThingsD)
Why Guys Who Can't Smell Never Get Laid. (Popular Science)
Data In The Workplace. Google Cares Less About SAT Scores or GPA Because They Have Better Hiring Data (BusinessInsider)

Trading Links:

The Asset Classes Wealthy Investors Love in 2013. (Forbes)
High-Speed Traders Can Still Buy Peeks at Some Data. (Wall Street Journal)
Google Logic: Why Google does the things it does the way it does. (Guardian)
S&P Amazingly Says No One Should Believe Its Ratings Are Independent & Objective. (Qz)
The Money Side of Driverless Cars. (NYTimes)

Posted at 10:43 AM in Business, Current Affairs, Just for Fun, Market Commentary, Trading | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

When Do You Think the Dow Will Break the 16,000 Level?

What do you get if connect these key "Emotipoints" (Emotional highs and lows)... The 1982 low, 1987 High, 2000 high, 2002 low, 2003 low and 2007 high together?

According to Kimble Charting, you get a rare combo of resistance coming into play at Dow 16,000.

The Dow industrials has been hitting record highs and is now less than 500 points (less than 3%) from this potential key technical price point.

From a technical perspective, the trend is your friend ... and if the Dow does break above this resistance level, it will be viewed as a big positive by the Bulls.

Posted at 10:49 AM in Business, Current Affairs, Market Commentary, Trading | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

Perception versus Reality ... Here is what success really looks like. Afterwards, it might make sense ... but getting there can be a journey.

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

Lighter Links:

Why The Happiest People Have the Hardest Jobs and Most Challenging Work. (FastCompany)
Chronic Stress is Harmful, But Short-Term Stress Can Help. (Smithsonian)
The Secret To Getting Really, Really Good At Something. (Forbes)
Nate Silver to Startups: Go for the Low Hanging Fruit. (PandoDaily)
Richest Presidents from Washington to Clinton. (USAToday)

Trading Links:

Illuminating the World of Hedge Funds. (Pertrac Infographic)
There's No Hippocratic Oath On Wall Street. (Forbes)
The Booming Business of Drones. (Harvard Business Review)
Microsoft to Take Over Best Buy Computer Sections With Windows Stores. (eWeek)
In An Economy Not So Far, Far Away. Imagine a time when all undesirable work is done by automated systems or robots. What would it mean? (FT)

Posted at 03:09 PM in Business, Current Affairs, Healthy Lifestyle, Market Commentary, Trading | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

The Big Mac Index - A Feast of Burgernomics

Image by Simon Miller via Flickr

The Economist's Big Mac index seeks to make exchange-rate theory more digestible. They say it is arguably the world's most accurate financial indicator to be based on a fast-food item.

The Big Mac index is based on the theory of purchasing-power parity (PPP), according to which exchange rates should adjust to equalize the price of a basket of goods and services around the world. For them, the basket is a burger ... a McDonald’s Big Mac.

According to this measure, the most undervalued currency is India's Rupee at 67% below its PPP rate. In India, a McDonald’s Big Mac costs just 90 Rupees on average, the equivalent of $1.50 at market exchange rates. In America, the same burger averages $4.56.

The interactive graphic, below, shows by how much, in Big Mac PPP terms, selected currencies were over- or undervalued.

The index is supposed to give a guide to the direction in which currencies should, in theory, head in the long run. It is only a rough guide, because its price reflects non-tradable elements such as rent and labor. For that reason, it is probably least rough when comparing countries at roughly the same stage of development.

Posted at 11:56 AM in Business, Current Affairs, Food and Drink, Ideas, Market Commentary, Trading, Trading Tools | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

How Big Is Amazon?

Image via CrunchBase

From the CIA to Your freezer ... the Seattle-based e-retailer is not simply a retailer anymore.

From books, to cloud services, to the grocery delivery business, Amazon continues to find new products and services to deliver.

How Big is Amazon? Bloomberg Businessweek takes a look.

There were some interesting stats and facts in there.

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Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

When was the last time you called your Mother?

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

Lighter Links:

Luck In Business. What can you do to deal with uncertainty better? (Fortune)
Six Things to Put on Your To-Not-Do List. (Forbes)
The Role Human Judgment Plays In Creating and Managing Algorithms. (Aeon)
Why Don't Airplanes Fly Faster? Economic Lift and Drag. (Medium)
Meet GeoGuessr, a fun little Web game about global geography you haven’t played yet. (TNW)

Trading Links:

Buffett’s Career in Less Than 1000 Words. (AlephBlog)
When Economists Agree, Start Worrying. (Wall Street Journal)
Using Big Data to Combat Big Risk. (Advanced Trading)
5 Reasons the Government Fails at Venture Capital. (Forbes)
Jim Rogers. "I Suspect They'll Take The Pension Plans Next; I For One Am Worried, and I'm Taking Preparations" (BullMarketThinking)

Posted at 12:24 PM in Business, Healthy Lifestyle, Ideas, Market Commentary, Science, Trading, Trading Tools | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

A Look Back at the Percent Change In Market Caps of Some Big Tech Names

This chart shows the relative change in market capitalizations of four of the largest publicly trading tech companies. It was published on Daring Fireball back in March.

Click here to see an updated version of this chart.

The unrelenting strength of Amazon provides stark contrast to the relative weakness of Microsoft.

Perhaps more surprising, though, is the recent performance of Netflix and Yahoo.

Last year it was AOL.

Posted at 09:33 AM in Business, Current Affairs, Market Commentary, Trading | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

What Happens in a Half-Second of High Frequency Trading Activity?

What happens in a half-second of high frequency trading activity? The answer is a lot more than you'd guess or notice.

This video illustrates an actual half-second of trading in in Johnson & Johnson stock, slowed down so it takes five minutes to watch. Don't worry, you don't have to watch more than a few (slowed down) seconds to get the point. The size and scope of what is happening changes the game and the playing field.

via Nanex.

The question isn't whether high frequency trading is about efficient allocation of capital or attempts at short-term market manipulation ... it is what you decide to do after you know it is happening and becoming the norm (rather than simply an understood but infrequent risk).