The following simulation is based on a presentation that I attended in the 1990s. I was an investment junkie back then. I sat down, and I listening to people speak about their ideas on making money - on television and sometimes live. The presenter in this case was trying to explain that investment success is sometimes a matter of chance. He had people in the audience stand up. He asked them to guess heads or tails. Those that were correct continued to the next round - to guess again -…
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The term “technical analysis” usually refers to the study of stock prices. A technical analyst might use real-time or closing prices of stocks to predict future prices. This is an interesting concept because of what is normally excluded from the analysis - namely, everything except prices. Given that the approach doesn’t necessarily consider the health or profitability of the underlying companies, a purely technical approach seems to offer guidance that is disconnected from reality. Yet…
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What most people call “analysis,” I refer to this as “guidance.” It is not guidance in terms of guiding the company; but rather, I provide a narrative to help guide people through the data - of which there is a great deal. I play the role of a tour guide. I remember when I was a teaching assistant for a social science class - and there was a contentious area that would likely be the focal point for essays - I said that it didn’t matter to me what “opinions” people expressed. Nobody had…
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