ALL THINGS BIG AND SMALL 2.0

Below are some extraordinary photos and paintings from an extremely talented childhood friend of mine. Thubten Kway, formerly Victor Kway. Now a staunch Tibetan Buddhist, he resides in Fellbach, Germany near Stuttgart. You can see more of his work at www.flickr.com/thubtenkway . He is also a master musician and composer. What a joy to see such works. 1. Peeper 2. Dragon Fly 3. Butterfly 4. Vineyard 5. Shining Lama 6. Fishing Boat 7. Pink Rose 8. Eat And Be Eaten 9. Three Carps And Lilies

1. Self-Organized clusters of S&P500 stocks, plus screened Growth, Quality and Value stocks 1. Statistics of the self-organized clusters shwoing the model variables of the screened stocks 3. Short/Long Areas of the self-organizing map. Though generated for serious analysis of the U.S. stock markets, these colorful self-organizing maps are attractive in an artistic way. Taken from my financial markets Blog, these images were generated using Self-Organizing Map technology [SOM], which is a form of Artificial Intelligence. In essence the map clustered elements according to their degree of similarity. Imagine it as a matrix with each row representing a stock, and each column filled with data on fundmental and technical characteristics of the stock e.g. its P/E, the last 5 years Return, the Sharpe Ratio, the estimated Earnings Per Share etc. All in there were about 30 variables for each stock. The SOM took into account all the variables of all the stocks simultaneously when plotting...

BioComp System's Dakota Swarm Intelligence In Action I don't usually post articles on financial markets in this blog, since I have a special purpose Blog for it at http://www.technifundamentals.com/ . But the great number of advertisements in the local papers claiming to be able to make you rich quick in Forex, Stocks, Futures, Options and other derivatives prompted this post. Small investors may not know it. But for short-term trading, the odds are against them when competing with the Big Boys in the market. For the individual house-wife, retiree and wannabe traders who think that using technical analysis charting is sufficient, they will find it interesting to have a glimpse of machine-controlled high frequency trading supported by tools far beyond their understanding and financial means. I have been fortunate enough to have a glimpse of such tools although these tools are incompatible with my risk profile, my character and mental make-up. This post shows the reader three e...