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OSINT Open source intelligence (OSINT) is a form of intelligence collection management that involves finding, selecting, and acquiring information from publicly available sources and analyzing it to produce actionable intelligence. In the intelligence community (IC), the term “open” refers to overt, publicly available sources (as opposed to covert or classified sources); it is not related to open-source software or public intelligence. [Wikipedia: 2009]
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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.
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By John Schroy, on April 20th, 2009 |

Fundamental investment analysis provides competitive advantage to those investors who understand that the Efficient Market Hypothesis, the basis for Modern Portfolio Theory, has now been shown to be false.
Moreover, the methods of Graham & Dodd, dating from the 1930s, are inadequate to meet the challenge of millions of terabytes of unfiltered facts, freely available on the Internet.
This article discusses the application of OSINT techniques, developed by national intelligence services, to the needs of investment analysis.
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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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