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  • #211

    Roberto (Tuesday, 07 February 2012 23:54)

    “Suppose someone sits down where you are sitting right now and announces to me he is Napoleon Bonaparte. The last thing I want to do with him is to get involved in a technical discussion of cavalry tactics at the battle of Austerlitz. If I do that, I am tacitly drawn in the game that he is Napoleon. Now, Bob Lucas and Tom Sargent like nothing better than to get drawn in technical discussions, because then you have tacitly gone along with their fundamental assumptions; your attention is attracted away from the basic weakness of the whole story. Since I find that fundamental framework ludicrous, I respond by treating it as ludicrous – that is, by laughing at it - so as not to fall in the trap of taking it seriously and passing on matters of technique” (Solow in Klamer, 1983, p. 146)





  • #210

    Tom (Monday, 16 January 2012 20:26)

    Rogoff's article is great. So why not follow his advice and get real? A philosophical discussion as you posted below does not help us here. We need solution based thinking and therefore the system itself has to change slowly from the inside. The guy is way to pessimistic even if a critical approach makes sense.

    By the way I am still interested in your opinion on the momentum part. Did the backtesting work out?

    greetings from London
    Tom

  • #209

    Fabian (Tuesday, 20 December 2011 13:00)

    Ainvar 05:51 02 Dec 11
    Hey Alberto,
    this comment on the Rogoff article also available at our blog really make me think. What is your opinion?

    Capitalism, as communism and as any economic, social or political system has been created by the human mind. The human mind, surely capable of doing good, is sick at its roots. One of the healthiest minds in the 20th century, Mahatma Gandhi, once said “there is enough in this world to satisfy everyone's needs but not to satisfy one man's greed” He would probably make the greatest economist today but he would definitely not be invited to deliver a lecture on Economics at Harvard university, would he Mr. Rogoff? Too dangerous.

    Greed is not only present in those who work in Wall Street or in the banks whose reckless lending practices precipitated the current crisis/chance. Greed is in me and it is most probably in you too.

    “Market-based solutions” sounds derisory at this stage of the game, an oxymoron of sorts. Those solutions might work in the short term, would benefit the financial elites and their cohorts in the medium one and would die causing new havoc among most of the population. Am I being too pessimistic? Maybe I am. I am also playing the game of the economist: predicting the future as if economics were a science.

    I agree with the previous post that the Scandinavian model seems to be sustainable. It is also more democratic than Anglo-American neoliberal capitalism. However I cannot judge but by what I hear and read; I have never lived in Scandinavia myself. One the other hand, I do not see the Chinese model evolving towards the Northern European one. But again, my knowledge of China is reduced to my readings and to one year living there. How we love speculating about the future.


  • #208

    Fabian (Monday, 21 November 2011 19:13)

    http://seekingalpha.com/article/309256-buffett-buys-ibm-a-quality-improving-stock-at-a-good-price

    Warren bought IBM today...

  • #207

    Fabian (Friday, 11 November 2011 18:57)

    One of the best lectures ever when it comes to financial markets:
    http://www.soros.org/resources/multimedia/sorosceu_20091112/financialmarkets_transcript#

  • #206

    Fabian (Wednesday, 05 October 2011 12:19)

    Thanks for the feedback Tom..we will develop such a tool during the next months...I found a really good paper about the current status of economic thinking on the website of the institute for new economic thinking, check it out:
    http://ineteconomics.org/sites/inet.civicactions.net/files/kay-john-state-of-economics-v11.pdf
    What do you think about this quote:
    ‘It is perhaps natural to think there is a unique way of describing things which gets at their essential nature, ‘an interpretation of the world which gets it right’, and, a description of “Reality As It Is In Itself”. Of course there is no such unique “interpretation” or description, not even in the one or more languages each of us commands, not in any possible language. Or perhaps we should just say this is an idea of which no-one has made good sense.’

    greetings
    Fabian

  • #205

    Tom (Saturday, 01 October 2011)

    Hallo Fabian,
    I would agree with Warren, the valuation of long term option is faulty.
    Black Scholes is just the initial value for our valuation but when this initial value is wrong..the whole calculation is wrong.
    As you already put it earlier, the vega changes over time and we have to consider it. The change of the gamma and vega are the key problems.
    The investor anticipating the change of the volatility right is the one making the money. Are we able to anticipate the future change of the volatility? Depends, Nassim Taleb would argue no and would say we will always be hit by "black swan" events.

    On the other hand without "statistical jargon" its just scenario analysis, and obviously Warren is doing a good job...
    If I am right, he bought long term index options for 2015 on the American and European market in 2008.

    I like your idea about combining momentum and value, you should give it a try.

    greetings from London
    Tom

  • #204

    Greeninvest (Saturday, 01 October 2011 11:59)

    Thanks for you post...we will contact you in time.

  • #203

    Green investments guide (Monday, 26 September 2011 15:17)

    Hi,
    We are Green investments Guide and will be glad if we can help each other. Don't hesitate to contact us.

  • #202

    Fabian (Thursday, 15 September 2011 16:03)

    I have to quote another one from Warren:

    Both Charlie and I believe that Black-Scholes produces wildly inappropriate values when applied to long-dated options. We set out one absurd example in these pages two years ago. More tangibly, we put our money where our mouth was by entering into our equity put contracts. By doing so, we implicitly asserted that the Black-Scholes calculations used by our counterparties or their customers were faulty.

    ;-)

    What do you think about this ?

  • #201

    Fabian (Thursday, 15 September 2011 15:46)

    Warren Buffet 2010:

    It’s easy to identify many investment managers with great recent records. But past results, though important, do not suffice when prospective performance is being judged. How the record has been achieved is crucial, as is the manager’s understanding of – and sensitivity to – risk (which in no way should be measured by beta, the choice of too many academics). In respect to the risk criterion, we were looking for someone with a hard-to-evaluate skill: the ability to anticipate the effects of economic scenarios not previously observed. Finally, we wanted someone who would regard working for Berkshire as far more than a job.

  • #200

    Fabian (Monday, 12 September 2011 22:41)

    As one of my professors recently said to me, "do not let the dogs take care of the sausage." I love this metaphor and it includes a lot of truth.
    I know that you do not have that much leisure time to spare...;-) but you should probably watch the movie "inside job" and afterwards come back to me...
    cheers

  • #199

    Tom (Monday, 12 September 2011 20:54)

    I would agree with Soros, actually every investment decision depend on the legal framework and its development. One has to consider this as well. To my mind not many macro models include the political situation...
    Of course the reality is shaped by the interest of the financial markets, take a look at the important regulators, for example Alan Greenspan, most of them have been investment bankers as well.

  • #198

    Fabian (Monday, 29 August 2011 18:46)

    Hallo Tom

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHSEEJDKJho&feature=relmfu

    check out the George Soros lecture about financial theory. I would be really interested in your opinion...


    You can go long in the DAX for the next 3 years...;-)

  • #197

    Tom (Sunday, 28 August 2011 10:54)

    Hey folks,
    yep some cash cows are available at a nice price.
    Just working myself through SEC files.

    greetings Tom

  • #196

    Fabian (Thursday, 25 August 2011 12:11)

    The blind adherence of academics to the efficient markets hypothesis is caricatured by the professor who sees a $20 bill lying on the sidewalk as he walks down the street with a student. He passes it with barely a second glance, and the student asks, "Why aren't you picking the money up?" The professor smiles, and with a knowing shrug of his shoulders explains, "Well if there really were a $20 bill on the sidewalk, someone would have picked it up already.

  • #195

    Fabian (Tuesday, 23 August 2011 14:07)

    In fact @Tom, despite the recent surge in the bond market, your right. Dividend paying value stocks could be the right horse to bet on at the moment...;-)

    What do the others think about the proposal?

  • #194

    Fabian (Saturday, 06 August 2011 10:35)

    @ Tom sure if your working for a hedgefund..;_). I am actually not sure about the U.S development, one of my basic rules is to buy into a crash straight after a bottom is reached (if you invest for the long run), still due to the current macro situation I would stick here with European and Asian stocks, and go short in the U.S. for the next 2 weeks or so.....there is always "irrational exuberance" from such events like the downgrading...

  • #193

    Tom (Friday, 05 August 2011 17:50)

    Thanks for the request...
    @Fabian as mentioned today is a good day for buying value stocks.

    you got some good quotes down there especially for a practitioner.^^

    greetings from the city
    Tom

  • #192

    Fabian (Wednesday, 20 July 2011 12:24)

    That are my three favorites:

    Market participants act not as in terms of what has the highest utility for them, but what they perceive has the highest utility for them and that is not the same.
    Psychological experiments have proved this statement.
    (Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky: Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk, in Econometrica, March 1979, S. 263-291


    Market participants act on the basis of imperfect knowledge and that produces imperfect actions. There is a difference between expectations and results, between ex ante and ex post- and to assume that both don’t differ is not rational.
    (Roman Frydman and Micheal D. Goldberg: Imperfect Knowledge Economics. Exchange rate and risk, Princeton University Press, Prinction 2007;Romain Frydman and Edmund Phelps: Individual Forecasting and aggregate outcomes. Rational expectations examined, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1983.)



    George Soros
    For me the standard interpretation of financial models was that much away from reality that I didn’t invest a lot of time to understand it. I worked with a different model and that I had success with it let the theory of rational expectations look like nonsense, my success is way better than any framework of “random-walk-theory” acceptable deviation.

  • #191

    Fabian (Wednesday, 20 July 2011 12:16)

    Just a few good quotes for you to think about...;-)

    “People in standard finance are rational.
    People in behavioral finance are normal.“

    Dan Golden head of quantitative finance program University College Dublin „I don’t believe in efficient markets.“


    Lawrence Summer (Harvard President) “If the world problem 18 month a go was that there was to much greed, the worlds problem today is that there is to much fear. “


    George Soros
    “The theory of rational expectations was adapted a lot to create an artificial world
    including an equilibrium condition, but in that world reality is adjusted to theory and not the other way around.“


    George Soros
    “ As a student I don’t excepted standard financial theory, because the axiom of perfect information wasn’t conform with the principal of Karl Poppers philosophy of imperfect understanding.”

  • #190

    INET (Wednesday, 13 July 2011 09:49)

    Hi Fabian,

    If the countries in the European periphery defaulted on their debt, the euro as a common currency breaks down. This contention is used as an argument for bailouts and rescue packages, and Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich says it’s wrong.

    Click here to watch the video interview

    http://ineteconomics.org/video/interview/carl-ludwig-holtfrerich-what-19th-century-us-can-teach-todays-europe-about-sovere

    He draws a parallel to the US debt crisis in the 1840s, when the US had a common currency and a fully-fledged central government, and nine out of 27 US states defaulted. That crisis, he says, did not endanger the US dollar then, just as the current crisis doesn’t endanger the euro now.

    Prof. Holtfrerich, from the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the Free University of Berlin, says the specter of eurozone breakup serves a purpose: it creates fear – a catastrophe is looming! – which the German government uses to move forward with European political integration, against the opposition from large parts of the German population.

    Prof. Holtfrerich also talks about deregulation and privatization. Deregulating finance turned out to be disastrous, he says, and countries ought to coordinate their regulatory efforts to prevent yet another race towards the bottom in regulatory standards.

    Click here to engage these ideas and watch the video interview.

    Sincerely,
    Lee Price
    Deputy Director for Research Programs

  • #189

    Fabian (Saturday, 09 July 2011 20:11)

    Cheers Brian!
    That was exactly the question I was looking for.
    According to Kinderberger (Minsky modell) the first stage of a bubble is displacement.
    Currently most displacement, might exist about let me put it in your words "the new green deal".
    But lets make a bet 5 years is not enough and not every new development is straight a bubble at the financial market.
    Bubbles are difficult to spot, especially when your into one. So do you think it is that obivious? I am eager to get more arguments from you for your statement. My Portfolio would bet at the moment on your bubble...
    Finally one thing I learned is that bubbles and especially momentum can last longer than expected. Or as Keynes put it "markets can stay longer crazy than you can stay solvent". LTCM can tell you a good story about it...;-)

  • #188

    O'Brian (Saturday, 09 July 2011 16:41)

    Hey folks,
    do you think the green new deal will be the next bubble?
    To my mind the green technologies are a real benefit for our sociaty but as always someday the financial market might get crazy about it.

    Keep that statement in mind and take a look at it in 5 years from now.
    Greetings from the institut of new economic thinking.
    @Tom, thanks for the post Andrew Sheng was definitly inspiring for our mission.

    I think this webside has potential, ma be one should "pimp it" one day

  • #187

    Tom (Wednesday, 29 June 2011 07:53)

    Hey folks,
    please watch the interview with Andrew Sheng. I am really interested in your opinion on it.

    http://ineteconomics.org/video/andrew-sheng-sustainability-requires-caging-godzillas

    @Fabian I see your point there but in fact currently the market isn't that much bullish about the situation in Europe.

    greetings from London
    Tom

  • #186

    Fabian (Sunday, 19 June 2011 20:17)

    At a speech for the institute for new economic thinking a japanese head economist said something interesting: What can we learn from history concerning Japan when it comes to fiscal and monetary policy?
    Most people say the japanese policy makers did everything wrong one can do wrong. But concerning the current situation in europe, "we can't help a sick person by letting it run a marathon". So extrem fast fiscal budget cost cutting doesn't help us now in europe and can be in fact very dangerous!!!

  • #185

    Tom (Sunday, 29 May 2011 13:40)

    Hey guys think about this sentence:
    "Was there ever any correlation between an ability to get into, and out of, Princeton, and a talent for taking financial risk?"

    greetings from London
    Tom

  • #184

    O'Brian (Tuesday, 24 May 2011 12:13)

    Hey folks,
    cheek this website
    http://www.risklatte.com/Articles_new/Simply_Complx/SimplyComplex28.php

  • #183

    Miri (Friday, 20 May 2011 15:56)

    "Resign yourself to your fate if there is nothing you can change about it, and fight like crazy if you can."

    That's the key message out of the Steve Jobs speech for me.
    I really enjoyed reading through the different posts in the forum, thanks for your contribution to my knowledge.

    Greetings from Spain
    Miri

  • #182

    Greeninvest (Saturday, 23 April 2011 16:56)

    One of the best explanations for the financial crises I have heard so far.
    We have to control or at least monitor the leverage cycle.

    http://oyc.yale.edu/economics/financial-theory/content/sessions/lecture25.html

  • #181

    Greeninvest (Monday, 18 April 2011 22:16)

    Please watch this movie.....

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoqLu5CKx-o

  • #180

    Fabian (Sunday, 17 April 2011 19:08)

    Hallo Tom,

    thanks a million, the interview is great ! Soros perspective is thoughtful. I like the way hey talks about the science finance and its current development. We have to start using behavioral finance, to some extend but also be aware that there is a certain reality, which one cannot escape in the long run. Like Shiller states in 'Animal Spirit', the expectations have a real influence on the market. If everybody believes the Eurozone will stay stable, this would have a positive impact on the reality as well (a better example might be Obamas speeches). On the other hand there is always a reality. The financial world can't escape it. That means for me: What is the value certain companies create...one can't escape to face this measurement in the long run. I think it's also important to ask the question in relation to banking? What are the values banks create for the society? One argumentation could be back to the roots, keep it simple and provide transparent financial services, focus on the service itself ... speculation is a zero sum game and costly for the society in the long run, but that is maybe just one aspect, its not just all about speculation itself. To my mind Banks play a crucial role for every economy and create a lot of value as well, capital is one of the most important production factors and in our knowledge century. Capital itself will have an important value for every society. In addition Robert Schiller had an interesting idea about making options more transparent and available for everybody to provide bubbles. For example every house owner could buy an option to secure against a decline, as a result the risk is more diversified and bubbles could be prevent easier, because the market is more transparent.
Finally the total risk in the housing market would be spread all over the world and volatility in prices would smoothen. (The Titanic doesn’t prevent that we still ship on the ocean…;-))
    Furthermore, why don’t open stock markets 24h (lower volatility), let banks go bust (secure just the transaction plan) every bank need a bankruptcy plan (better and more transparent competition) than the risk would get the price it deserved, secure that no responsibility conflict occur when it comes to derivatives… <- CDOs , ABS etc.
    
Sry just a food of thought....in addition to the Soros interview.


    Finally an other important point which he clearly points out and which a lot of good economist mentioned is a good monetary policy is not enough, the Eurozone need a coordinated fiscal and monetary policy. I am aware that’s its easy to write and list a lot of thinks than to change them in reality. But somehow we have to start…;-P-

    In fact I like Jim Rogers as well ( ex. Partner of Soros managing their Quantum hedge fund) Did you know the story that he moved to Singapore and wants is daughter to study in a Chinese university and learn mandarin, because that's the future (of growth, culture and profit) according to him. I admire him for his courage to act fast and try to profit from the chances ones has over a short lifespan....mhmm made me think...

Finally to return to Soros again, he has a very sophisticated opinion, especially when it comes to the current crises...there have been 25 years of excesses....and no we have to pay for them that's it and it will talk longer than we are expecting. So the current market situation itself is difficult and the development for the next few years is sill not clear

    @Tom would like to read in the forum from you as well, enjoy your short weekend...greetings to London...

  • #179

    Tom (Saturday, 16 April 2011 01:41)

    Hey folks,
    please watch Soros movie on his website. I would like to know what you think about it.
    http://www.georgesoros.com/

    greetings from the City
    Tom

  • #178

    Greeninvest (Friday, 15 April 2011 20:50)

    In addition to the momentum strategy, I have to rethink my argument about options. Option offer private investors a higher leverage and are a good way to go short as well. When it comes to momentum, we have to think about the pricing of option. In most cases the Black Scholes Formula is used to value the option. A key factor is the volatility of the stock and the risk free rate. If we assume that investors have optimistic or pessimistic assumption about the volatility of the stock and its future earnings, this would be already included in the option price and therefore a momentum strategy with options would be useless, (option prices are often even a leading indicator for the expectation of the market). For example the stock A performed well during last year, according to the momentum strategy it will continue to perform well for a certain time, even longer than expected due to behavioral biases.The pricing of option depends on the past, therefore a call option for the stock would be more expensive and with option one would not be able to profit from momentum. On the other hand efficient market advocates would argue that the expectations about the future are already included in the stock price as well, and momentum doesn't exist at all...which is obvious according to a lot of empirical studies not true. But if momentum is less in the option market,the best way to profit from momentum would be as described below to go either short or long in the stocks itself. Finally there is another factor striking me, one can use the option pricing itself (high strike price low strike price etc.) to adjust to ones risk-retrun profile and profit from miss pricing. Finally the black Scholes formula isn't perfect, a critical factor is the risk free rate used in the model.


    Before we continue discussing one should do backtesting for the momentum strategy with options and stocks to discuss on the basis of real data.

  • #177

    Greeninvest (Monday, 11 April 2011 21:39)

    What is the momentum trading strategy? Based on the assumption that investors pick stocks based on past returns (more or less the whole financial theory is based on statistical analysis of the past ;-)) , the stocks are going to continue perform good or poor for a certain time. Soros Hedge Fund used this strategy very successful. The best explanations for the effects are different behavioral biases, which may all have different effects in different situations. We can sum it up to overreaction and underreacting to relevant information. It is important to note that momentum works in both direction.


    Empirical studies show that a historical time horizon of analyzing the past should be 12 to 9 month and in addition an investment period of 3 months result in the highest return.

    Furthermore, pick the best quartile of outperforming stock and pick the worst quartile of underperforming stock. (key indicator last year earnings)

    Go long in the good stocks and the most important aspect go short in the worst quartile.
    Empirical studies shows that the shorting creates most profit.
    So you can profit in both direction from behavioral biases.

    In general it is more difficult to go short, that might also be a reason why the momentum on the downside is even, stronger. If you know a little bit about options strategy one can go short without actually shorting the stock. Buying three month puts and calls would be perfect for the strategy. Furthermore you can use the options and their pricing to adjust the amount of risk you are taking. I am making the assumption here that options are not efficiently priced, one has to do backtesting before considering this argument. If the assumptions doesn't hold, buying the real stock and shorting in most cases would still work.

    (One additional note: The momentum effect has the highest return in the mid cap sector and is in addtion contrary to financial sounded theory even stronger in stocks which high trading volume. Financial theory would argue that arbitrage in high volume stock would occure more than in low volume stocks, this is according to the master thesis mentioned further down not true.)

    The Naktienclub research tool would be a good analytical tool as a fundament for such a strategy. (Forum) VBA based Excel spreadsheet uses current data provided via Internet.

    Finally, be aware that this strategy is a good medium term strategy in the long run reverse to the mean may occur.

    If you fellows are interested check this master thesis to my mind it’s a really good work. Moreover a good article about Momentum from the economist is available in our blog.

    http://studenttheses.cbs.dk/bitstream/handle/10417/1179/maria_eslykke_soendergaard.pdf?sequence=1


    As we are a critical community, one has to keep in mind that this strategy could support the development of bubbles, because we are betting on positive feedback, bubbles can be very costly for the society in the long run. Still, the strategy is very interesting for personal investors and has been proved to be very successful by a lot of empirical studies, even if transaction cost are included. We would like to get critical feedback on this issue....

  • #176

    Greeninvest (Friday, 08 April 2011 01:03)


    In theory it is difficult to make money: Market price incorporate the believes of market participants. To make money from any investment strategy, you must take a view that is different from most of the rest of the market-and you must be right!
    Mhmm..sounds very efficient market minded, but I think there are still markets which aren't very efficient and momentum is a big issue; most of rest of the market might be wrong but prices may still develop in the wrong direction, for a long time, because arbitrage is often not so rational and easy as it should be according to theory ..;-)

  • #175

    Good article about bubble spotting (Monday, 04 April 2011 23:45)

    http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/shiller76/English

  • #174

    Greeninvestment (Thursday, 24 March 2011 17:29)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzrBurlJUNk

    check the movie "Inside Job out" here is the trailer.

    I am really eager to get your opinion on this...

  • #173

    Fresh Thinker (Tuesday, 22 March 2011 22:38)

    Piece of mind and health are the most important attributes. "Shopenhauer"
    How can we achieve that?

    A sustainable lifestyle might be a way.

    the Fresh Thinker

  • #172

    Greeninvestment (Monday, 14 March 2011 22:57)

    One of the best discussion on the current status of our science...'finance'

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh_EbIPcnSk

    "A survey of behavioral finance" is also a good paper published by Nicholas Barberis and Richard Thaler.
    Just in case you need background for arguing against the arbitrage argument of your finance professor. ;-p

  • #171

    Fabian (Saturday, 26 February 2011 23:25)

    Hey Abslam,
    hope so...:-> I am looking forward to read from you soon in our forum...

    warmest regards to Austria (or France at the moment?)


    Fabian

  • #170

    Abslam (Saturday, 26 February 2011 23:18)

    Hello Fabian;
    i hope you are well!
    I am seeing that our club runs well.
    Best wishes- Abslam

  • #169

    R Finance (Tuesday, 22 February 2011)

    http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~ljin/Finance/stat689-R.htm
    http://www.r-project.org/

    Hey folks,
    I read in the forum that you start with statistic regressions models, you should use the R Software(free powerful mathematical tool). First step learn how to read data from excel (10 min) and regressions can be done with one line of code (2min) so using financial models becomes very easy. If you have any queries feel free to ask me in the forum.
    great webside by the way!!!
    :->

  • #168

    Greeninvestmentclub (Monday, 21 February 2011 20:20)

    Thanks for your opinion please write it into the forum under politics and please write in english.

    I don't get the clue of your post.
    As a result I would like to discuss with you in our forum.
    looking forward to that.
    warmest regards
    your greeninvestmentclub admin

  • #167

    Baphomet Bundestag Berlin (Monday, 21 February 2011 12:48)

    Wir Sayanim sind bekennende Juden also Deutschenhasser, wollen mit unseren Komplizen Christian Wulff Merkel Baradei Barroso Claudia Roth Kurt Beck Charlotte Bernd Knobloch Hypo Real Estate Weidman EZB Ursula Leyen Theodor Guttenberg Sarkozy den Überfall von USrael auf den Iran Bahrain Lybien Saudi Arabien Arabische Emirate Kuweit vorbereiten und von unserem Bankenzusammenbruch ablenken.

    So wie das unterdrückte Palästina explodieren und den israelischen Landräubern um die Ohren fliegen wird, so kann leicht die unterdrückte Wahrheit zur Explosion in Europa kommen. Mit ungeahnten Folgen. Oliver Stone, prominenter Hollywood-Regisseur mit jüdischen Wurzeln, erklärte kürzlich in einem Interview: Da die Medien sich unter jüdischer Kontrolle befinden, propagieren sie die Holocaust-Mythen. (Huffington-Post, 26.07.2010)

    Angst macht sich breit im Terrorimperium der Chemtrails HAARP Krebs Massenmörder,

    weil der Brudermord der Vatikanjidden an 300.000 russischen polnischen Khasaren, im Arbeitslager Auschwitz, als auch die ungeheuerliche Erfindung der Vergasung von über 6 Millionen Khasaren aufgedeckt wurde.
    Die Fasci=Faschismus der okkulte SS Totenkopf 322 mit den zwei Knochen der Yale Universität Skull & Bones / Prescott-George W.Bush John Kerry Goebbels Himmler Eichmann so wie das Eiserne Zionistenkreuz der Templer Jesuitenjidden gehören zum organisierten hebräischen Verbrechen NWO Rothschild Rockefeller FED, genau wie die Quadriga die maurisch-jüdische Synagogen Kuppel auf dem Berliner Bundeszionistentag und dem Zionisten Euro der eingeführt wurde um Deutschland restlos auszupressen.
    www.infokrieg.tv
    www.radioislam.org
    www.zdd.dk

  • #166

    Fabian (Sunday, 20 February 2011 22:12)

    http://www.samhoud.com/en/videos/16

    inspiring movie behind it....

  • #165

    Fabian (Tuesday, 08 February 2011 19:38)

    I love Wolfram Alpha, check this out

    http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=First+Solar

  • #164

    Fabian (Thursday, 03 February 2011 01:49)

    What has the highest return (Money vs. Utility) of investmens during our lifes? Maby sustainable factor of happiness and achieving meanigful goals?

    Recend psychological studies, draw the conclusion that happiness is not that that much depended on money from the "macro perspective. It depends for example strongly on the social system and our own benchmarks etc.
    On the "microperspective" it is worth it to focus on beeing satisfied with yourself, which can have a quit "high return" in the longrun.

    Happiness effect our -energy, -biolocical system health, -ability to resist stress -creativity and so on, to put it into a nutshell a constantly high feeling of happiness can make you become a real "Changemaker".

    The only question remaining is what can make you happy?
    From my own small perspecitve here are a few points
    for regulary daily activities:
    (from Konfuzius, without the Sex:-))
    -Sex
    -Sports
    -Sleep
    -social life (true friendships, relationship)
    -Education
    -Music, Art
    -Self reflection, self critism

    Important aims
    -achieving something which is not just a value for yourself, but also for others (human beeings are a social animals.)
    -Set your own goals, which were not determined from the social system surounding you but makes really sense for you and others.
    -Finally becoming rich enough to be a free human beeing

    Whats the outcome? A satisfying, rich and meaningful life. For me the best Investment one can make for a few 100 years.


    (One source for the psycological argumentation is the book social intelligence from Daniel Goleman)

    (You can find more interesting stuff in our forum in the frame, behavioural finance)

  • #163

    Fabian (Wednesday, 19 January 2011 16:07)

    Hallo Tom,
    thanks for your opinion.I agree to some extend that the system leads the market to use simpel forecasts and a lot of easy assumptions. For Example the discounted Cashflow is more and more used even in Accounting to value a company. I would like to know what Warren Buffet thinks about it ...;-). (To be more precise the intrest rate and the cashflow in 10 years are not easy to predict, moreover mostly fixed intrest rate were used. Sometimes the equity costs were correlated to the CAPM to calculate the cost for them, which is into my opionion total bullshit!) Are these models still better than no modell at all? I am not sure. In addition to youre awnser lets return to the german solar market. As you already know there have been some recent negative changes in the EEG (feed in tariff) which had a high impact on investments in that branch, it effects the land solar power plants. Thats why everybody is looking fore huge roof projects. By the way a good web side for current development is www.solarserver.de. (Good for your german skills as well;-). My personal opinion is that one has to focus really on the fundamental data provided by the solar companies, because a negative development as you know for sure better than me, offers a lot of good chances. The most commen german solar stocks are Q-Cells, Solarworld, S.A.G Solarstrom. I think First Solar(U.S Market leader) might be interesting in the long run.A further point is the technological development, currently it is still not sure what will become the leading technology in that branch in the future, therefore I would advise to get a technical update by an expert befor investing in any technology.
    cheers
    Fabian

  • #162

    Tom (Tuesday, 18 January 2011 00:01)

    Dear Fabian,
    as you know probably better than me , there are risk modells including soft facts. My hedgefunds uses a specific tool for diffrent branches and businesses. Your absolutly right about the implicit volatility, but lets face it, if the impicit volatility (Future prices) increases the volatility of the real market will increase as well. Thats why we should put an eye on this fact. So folks whats your opinion about the german solar market? In addition to the fat tails, its true that one has to focus on this in the future, but as you already mentioned in the business you just need "a better model", its all about beeing efficent you will not learn that in the academic world,but the current system forces you to think such way. Cheers Tom