Psychology

How do you place a value on options positions within a portfolio? Actually, because of the nature of options it is extremely difficult – if not impossible – to accurately balance an asset allocation target that includes derivatives.    For example, a portfolio of $1 million specified the...

In a blog post from yesterday, Mark Cuban revealed that he bought just under $5 million in Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) stock. Specifically, the Dallas Mavericks owner said that he bought three 50,000 share blocks of FB at $33.00, $31.97, and $32.50. Cuban wrote, "Its a trade, not an investment. Kind of...

To decode Wall Street is to tear down those conventionally held wisdoms fed to the average Joe by the men and women controlling the global flow of mooolah, in addition to trying to make sense of their funny jargon (see the “Financial Jargon Word of the Day” on our homepage). We have a couple more...

By Aaron Brown, Minyanville When I wrote The Poker Face of Wall Street, I got some good reviews, but also some complaints about mixing poker and finance. Most of the unhappy people were poker players, but one Wall Street trader rhetorically (I think) asked if my next book was going to be S**t...

In the mid-1980s discoveries in biotechnology were revealed and investors piled-into many new companies like Genentech and Amgen. But the technology was yet to produce profits for many years to come. Mutual fund companies devoted some funds to this new area of investment but it took over a decade...

Is it time to reassess whether capitalism is an ethical, morally-proper economic system?I. Road to Freedom, Road to SerfdomOn Tuesday, NPR's Steve Inskeep spoke with the president of the American Enterprise Institute Arthur C. Brooks regarding Brooks' book, The Road to Freedom: How to Win the...

If it is true that every cloud has a silver lining, then there must be one for the weak US economy, right? USA Today's Larry Copeland may have found one. On May 21, 2012, Copeland reported that "higher gas prices and a spotty economy recovery" are responsible for the drop in traffic congestion...

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This past Friday, shares of Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) began trading on public markets. They opened their first day at a lofty price of $42.05, but tumbled around 9% throughout the day. Today, shares declined even further, trading down as much as 11%. Other social media related stocks like Zynga (NASDAQ...

The New York Times’ reporters covering Europe’s financial, social, and political crises continue to channel Berlin and demonstrate an ignorance of economics so profound that it rivals the Wall Street Journal’s editorial writers and columnists. On May 18, 2012 the NYT published “Rising Greek...