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Professor used group semi-ignorance to pick stocks [translated] (translate.google.ca)
3 points by colinprince on May 29, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments


Single page, plain text, no images or ads. Still translated by Google.

http://translate.google.ca/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=h...


Google's machine translation has really gotten much, much better. This is perfectly fine.


Thanks, much better.


I saw an episode of "Dirty Jobs" (Discovery Channel) and they humourously demonstrated and explained how the dirty job of "baby chicken sexing" is done. The episode first aired on Aug 16, 2003.

Yet, there article claims ...

"Chicken Sexer the chicks after a few days differ, although the sexual characteristics until after four weeks to train. If you ask these people how they do that, they can not explain it."

It makes me wonder if the rest of the article on stock-picking is similarly inaccurate.


> The value of my portfolio rose in six months by 47 percent.

This is poorly explained. How did the market itself, or the selected-from stocks, do over the same time period?

How did it do versus the ten biggest or most active stocks for a lagging period?

I'd be curious to know the sharpe ratio for the various portfolios as well.




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