SPX

Screencast: The Making of 3dfcc505dc

June 3, 2012 | Milk Trader

It was all going so well. Until my MacBook began experiencing memory issues. At around the 20 minute mark (which is close to the end), I lost some video explaining the use of the density plot auto-creation super-wizard function. The good news is that i...
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Screencast: The Making of 17018d5488

March 6, 2012 | Milk Trader

The following screencast demonstrates the use of R, the quantmod R package and bash to process SPX data from 1950. An explanation on how to access a git repository that includes the plots and the R console history is also provided. This screencast prod...
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Get Used To It

August 18, 2011 | Milk Trader

This is a brain teaser. You've been warned.The S&P 500 is in a bear market (defined as the 50-day MA being below the 200-day MA) 30.8% of the time. Also, the S&P 500 has experienced single-day 4% declines 0.242% of the time. Of the times we exp...
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Last Time That Happened

June 30, 2011 | Milk Trader

I bought a lottery ticket yesterday. I hardly ever buy them. The last time I did I lost a dollar. Actually, every time I've bought a ticket I've lost.  Yesterday I was at the local gas station in line behind a bloke who had a comprehensive folder ...
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