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Post Modern Security Analysis
By John Schroy, on September 1st, 2009 |

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
By John Schroy, on July 7th, 2009 |

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.
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.
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