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Subject: collaborative research

A method of securities analysis in which more than one person or institution participates by means of semantic wiki software and in which the process of fact gathering is separated from the process of forming an opinion. Capital Market Wiki is a vehicle for collaborative securities research.

Post Modern Security Analysis:

Creating a research community

Finding a collaborative research group ...

Post Modern Security Analysis calls for collaborative research of open source investment information.

But how can such collaboration be organized?

This article describes how the wiki concept, Capital Market Taxonomy, and pre-defined topical outlines facilitate the process.

Post Modern Security Analysis

Collaborative research

We evaluate a pearl by comparing it to others ...

The complexity of modern capital markets and the flood of relevant information on the Internet have made the security analyst’s job more difficult.

Traditional commercial sources of investment data no longer adequately cover the market.

Collaborative research techniques offer competitive advantage to forward-looking institutions.

Post Modern Security Analysis

Crowdsourcing opinion is not factual research

A typical stock report

Post Modern Security Analysis calls for facts, not opinions. Collaborative research, not the crowdsourcing of opinion, is required.

A tsunami of raw, unanalyzed open source information now overwhelms the market, calling for new tools and new ways to motivate researchers.

To this end, Capital Market Wiki has tweaked the Wikipedia model, added a semantic structure and built-in incentives, and has created a system for collaborative investment research.

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