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• Mean Reversion and a Historical Look at its Impact on the VIX
  Posted by scheplick on February 10th, 2013 at 8:10 pm, Comments: 0

  The Chart below is from the 2013 Credit Suisse Global Return Yearbook. It shows the number of trading days the $VIX has taken to revert from [...]

• Brushing up on Econ 101: Paradox of Thrift, Phillips Curve, Impossible Trinity
  Posted by scheplick on February 9th, 2013 at 12:25 pm, Comments: 0

  YouTube is a great educational resource. Today we tuned into several videos. One in particular caught our eye. The video is titled 60 Seconds in Economics and it [...]

• The Legacy of Benjamin Graham in Select Quotes and Video
  Posted by scheplick on February 5th, 2013 at 11:40 pm, Comments: 0

  Yesterday on StockTwits a video surfaced about Bennjamin Graham, one of the founding fathers of Value Investing. We saw both Jason Zweig and Aleph Blog share [...]

• Short Sellers and Negative Reinforcement
  Posted by scheplick on February 2nd, 2013 at 12:09 pm, Comments: 0

  While watching an interview with Jim Chanos, a particular quote stood out about short sellers, and positive and negative reinforcement: “What I like to point [...]

• A Quick Lesson on Chart Analogs
  Posted by scheplick on January 31st, 2013 at 8:36 pm, Comments: 0

  A chart analog is a comparison of price action over two different time periods. Here is an example of a chart analog from the Wall [...]

• Stumbling Across Two Videos on Behavioral Economics
  Posted by scheplick on January 30th, 2013 at 12:39 am, Comments: 0

  We’ve recently run across 2 videos on the topic of Behavioral Economics. The first, hat tip The Armo Trader, is on irrationality in economics and markets. [...]

• A Set of Links on the Debate Surrounding Technical Analysis
  Posted by scheplick on January 25th, 2013 at 5:24 pm, Comments: 0

  The StockTwits Blog Network recently had a series of posts on Technical Analysis and its place in academics and formal education. We’ve gathered these posts [...]

• Carl Icahn on the thing about Corporate America
  Posted by scheplick on January 24th, 2013 at 8:40 pm, Comments: 0

  We were reading TRB’s post about Icahn’s comments on Ackman and the whole $HLF ordeal, and we thought of an old video Icahn did at [...]

• StockTwits U Festival of Links for the Week of October 15
  Posted by scheplick on October 14th, 2012 at 11:05 pm, Comments: 0

  We missed last week, so we decided to make this week a list filled with two weeks worth of great educational links: Marginal Revolution University [...]

• StockTwits U Festival of Links for the Week of October 1
  Posted by scheplick on September 30th, 2012 at 9:32 pm, Comments: 0

  The Festival of Links from StockTwits U presents a list of the best educational links and messages that have surfaced on StockTwits. The @SteenbargerClassics Stream: A Timeless Educational [...]