Popular posts 2012 February

March 1, 2012

Most popular posts in 2012 February

  1. What does ‘passive investing’ really mean
  2. The BurStFin R package
  3. The distribution of financial returns made simple
  4. The top 7 portfolio optimization problems
  5. A tale of two returns (posted in 2010)
  6. The US market will absolutely positively definitely go up in 2012
  7. A slice of S&P 500 kurtosis history
  8. A slice of S&P 500 skewness history
  9. The number 1 novice quant mistake (posted in 2011)
  10. Review of “Models. Behaving. Badly.” by Emanuel Derman

Most under-valued in February

Now it isn’t as if this were totally ignored.  And there are good reasons for it not getting more attention:

The post is really an explanation of statistical hypothesis testing, but hidden in a post with a tongue-in-cheek title about a tongue-in-cheek theory of market prediction.

Most popular posts in 2012

As of 2012 February 29.

  1. The top 7 portfolio optimization problems
  2. A slice of S&P 500 skewness history
  3. Review of “Models. Behaving. Badly.” by Emanuel Derman
  4. The distribution of financial returns made simple
  5. What does ‘passive investing’ really mean
  6. A tale of two returns (posted in 2010)
  7. Market predictions for years 2011 and 2012
  8. The BurStFin R package
  9. Physical books of ‘The R Inferno’ and ‘S Poetry’
  10. How to search the R-sig-finance archives

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