Post Modern Security Analysis
By John Schroy, on April 22nd, 2009 |

Free, easily available investment information is largely unexploited. This is because there is too much of it.
Information, to be useful, must be processed. This processing has a time cost.
This article describes how new technology allows securities research to evolve beyond the industrial techniques of the 20th century.
Crowd sourcing and collaborative research, semantic wikis, and Capital Market Taxonomy are discussed in this article.
The inefficient market
By John Schroy, on April 21st, 2009 |

The Crash of 2008 showed that the Efficient Market Hypothesis was fantasy. Although there is a huge amount of free information about investments available on the Internet, this takes time to extract and understand and time has a cost.
With too much free information, the law of diminishing returns kicks in. Critical information passes unnoticed.
Technologies are now available that allow us to take advantage of free information more effectively.
Post Modern Security Analysis
By John Schroy, on March 9th, 2009 |

Today, Capital Market Wiki has “gone public”, after thirty months of development effort. This is a free encyclopedia of world financial markets that anyone can edit, based on semantic wiki technology and Capital Market Taxonomy.
This non-profit project is sponsored by the Center for Capital Flow Analysis and addresses informational shortcomings in increasingly complex capital markets.
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