Back in 2008, I did a subject called FINS2624: Portfolio Finance. My strongest memory of the class has nothing to do with the material we covered (primarily the capital asset pricing model, aka CAPM); rather, it’s watching my tutor convert a series of daily asset prices into returns. He could do things in Excel I [...]

In a courtroom in California during the late eighties, a federal prosecutor overseeing the case of Barry Minkow, the mastermind behind the $100m ZZZZ Best Ponzi scheme, suggested that Minkow was talented and charismatic to the point that “he could have succeeded in a legitimate enterprise”. By 2009 the convicted 43-year-old former conman was back [...]

The Japanese have played major roles in the development of some important aspects of technical analysis. Perhaps the most visible of these would be the candlestick chart, said to have been developed in the 18th century by rice traders. In this article I will introduce two other Japanese developments and explain their applications in trading.
Heikin-Ashi: [...]

The Australian senate passed the Telecommunication Legislation Amendment (Competition and Consumer Safeguards) Bill 2010 with a vote of 30-28, paving the way for the rollout of the national broadband network (NBN).  In the amendment, Telstra will be required to separate from its wholesale arm, thereby relinquishing its monopoly on the copper network, which is currently [...]