For all of you who have been following our beloved Nate‘s sentiments and analyses (a.k.a. all you Free Subscribers to StatsTrade Free Newsletter), we’ve got some sad news today. Nate would like to take a short leave — to hiberNate, if you will. He has been working really hard during 2012 and was kind enough to share his sentiments for…
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The World’s Rudest Nations For Travelers
Recently, an online survey in skyscanner.net has aggregated the feedback of about 1200 visitors regarding their experiences abroad. Here’s a link to the original article (also here, here and here), where the results are summarized in the form of a list of the “rudest” nations for travelers: France is ranked 1st, Russia 2nd, and the United States receiving only 3.39%…
Land Day and TASE stocks
The area is heating up around Israel these days. A few facts below to get you up to speed on the events, followed by your investing options. Fact 1. Tens of thousands of anti-Israel activists are planning a march tomorrow, March 30, in neighboring countries such as Syria, Lebanon and Jordan, as well as other supporting countries (e.g. Morocco). Similar…
Screening is not enough
Almost half a year ago (October 29th, 2011), a well-known Israeli finance site has published an article demonstrating the use of stocks screening: You choose some fundamental and/or technical parameters, and remain with the stocks that satisfy your screening conditions. Here is the link to the article (in Hebrew), where the author demonstrated the screening process using the following conditions:…
Iran War
“War is the continuation of politics by other means”, said Carl von Clausewitz. That’s a nice quote, but we are no politicians. In our eyes, war is an opportunity to make profit, or at least to hedge your portfolio against. “Which stocks should I buy if I believe that there’s a war coming?” is a rather popular question. Indeed, the…
No love for ALVR today
Valentine’s day. Feb. 14, 2012. ALVR (Alvarion Ltd.) has plunged today by 9.45%. We sure hope this one didn’t hit you hard. Well, if you are getting our Free Newsletter, you couldn’t have possibly missed the warning signs. Over the past few days, there has been a complete and remarkable agreement between two different algorithms, two different approaches, indicating that caution should be…
The Financial Sector from a revolutionary point of view
First, a fact: There’s a social revolution going on all over the world, and only recently at the United States in the form of the #occupywallst movement. We will focus on the latter. A lot of information is available in sites like wearethe99percent, OccupyWallSt.org, NYCGA, and more. The upcoming global event is 15october‘s #globalchange. Another fact: The media is highly biased, especially in sensitive issues…