Recent Articles

This market is an effective information processing machine. Millions of participants buy and sell securities in the world markets every day, and the realtime information they bring helps set prices.

Markets Efficiently Integrate the Combined Knowledge of All Market Participants

Stock Price Reflects All Knowledge As we can see from the table above, an extraordinary amount of trades are made in the world markets on a daily basis. Active fund managers and the investment media would have us believe that, of those 98.6 million trades, they can exploit the market through a bit of information […]

Markets Efficiently Integrate the Combined Knowledge of All Market Participants Read Full Article »

US Market Intra-Year Gains and Declines VS Calendar Year Returns

Recent Market Volatility

After a period of relative calm in the markets, in recent days the increase in volatility in the stock market has resulted in renewed anxiety for many investors. From February 1–5, the US market (as measured by the Russell 3000 Index) fell almost 6%, resulting in many investors wondering what the future holds and if they should

Recent Market Volatility Read Full Article »

In This Section