From heartbleed.com: The Heartbleed Bug is a serious vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library… allows anyone on the Internet to read the memory of the systems… compromises the secret keys… Exploitation of this bug leaves no traces… In short, any service you’re using that has an “https://” connection might not be as secure as you think it is.…
HiberNate
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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A short update: Our focus is and has always been on the core research framework behind StatsTrade’s Insights and Robot-Analysts. Unfortunately, most of our research work cannot be shared here. You should expect less and less posts in this blog in the near future. In addition, our beloved Nate is also thinking about some Hibernation period soon, so enjoy his…
Visualizing the S&P500
Thanks to Google, we are able to easily visualize data in many interesting ways. We at StatsTrade strongly believe in the power of data visualization (together with dimension reduction techniques, or other mapping methods). And so we wished to take some time and share with you a simple possible visualization. We took the S&P500 companies, and considered their headquarters information…
Facebook IPO Survey
Towards Facebook’s IPO, we collected some facts, numbers, opinions and gossip from all over the web into one short post. Kind of an executive summary just for you, so we hope you’ll enjoy it. Also, to celebrate the event, we at StatsTrade conducted our own study, asking people how they believe the Facebook stock will perform after its IPO. The…
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…
The best thing in this site is (currently) free
We are sharing some of our analysis results with the public, in the form of a daily Free Newsletter (beta). Unlike what you’d expect from a newsletter, this one actually contains some real data. Real analysis results from the depths of the StatsTrade algorithms core (although not all our robot-analysts are taking part). On Feb. 16, 2012, Nate‘s analysis showed…