Finance Snippets from Here and There

Networks in Finance

Video of PhD mini-course on networks in finance:

http://safe-frankfurt.de/research/visitors-center/past-visitors/dr-kimmo-soramaeki.html

Free primer on Technical Analysis

Free 57-page handbook on the basics of technical analysis from Merrill Lynch:

http://www.forexlive.com/blog/2013/05/18/handbook-of-technical-analysis-from-merrill-lynch-link-to-free-pdf/

Letter For Wall Street Internship

An unusual application for an internship:

http://www.businessinsider.com/student-sends-great-cover-letter-for-internship-at-bank-and-its-now-going-viral-on-wall-street-2013-1?0=clusterstock

How often have you heard these?

“Bureaucratese is a maddeningly viral kind of Unspeak engineered to deflect blame, complicate simple ideas, obscure problems, and perpetuate power relations.” - The Guardian

Yes, it certainly is!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/apr/25/top-10-worst-management-speak

Lots of books on how to write plain English - this one is short and nice by the SEC to its staff:

A Plain English Handbook - Securities and Exchange Commission - available free at:

www.sec.gov/pdf/handbook.pdf

An answer to FAQs from students by e-mail!

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1583

Behavioural Economics for Kids

Free short e-book “Behavioural Economics for Kids”

http://neilbendle.com/behavioural-economics-for-kids/

Variety in academic journals!

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/30/routledge-to-publish-porn-studies-journal/

Kahneman’s gripe with behavioral economics!

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/26/daniel-kahneman-s-gripe-with-behavioral-economics.html

Interesting new data source

See:

http://www.quandl.com/

Some information:

 
Quandl has indexed over 5 million time-series datasets from over 400 sources. All of Quandl’s datasets are open and free.

Does technological change matter?

Some photographic evidence:

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/05/1993-vs-2013/