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Presenting The 10 Most Spectacular Financial Speculations Of The Past 300 Years

  
Analysis, Education
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Sometimes it seems like the investment community operates on the assumption that the world started in 1929 – or at least that the financial booms, busts and speculators preceding the 1920s are irrelevant to the modern investor. We think this is misguided. Just consider that this common worldview ignores an age where speculators lived in sprawling mansions on Fifth Avenue (as opposed to apartments in the same place measuring about 1/100th the size)! We imagine that there’s a lot to learn from looking at the past 300 years as opposed to the past 80. With this in mind; here we present what we believe to be the best trades of all time.

The Crowd Speaks Technical Analysis

  
  Education
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Nice write-upcrowd on the benefits of adding some technical analysis to a rational, fundamental worldview by Anthony Bolton, the recently retired manager of the top-performing Fidelity Special Situations fund. A few excerpts (emphasis mine):

 My contention is that if you are trying to predict the mass action of thousands of investors, most of whom are investing on a rational or logical basis, you won’t be able to do this by taking the same logical approach as everyone else. (more…)
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