Hedge funds are not especially liquid. Many are ‘gated’ – meaning there are only small windows when you can withdraw your money. They typically have a high minimum investment and often require investors keep their money in the fund for at least one year. Barry Ritholtz Read Quote
Getting more and more of our news from the social network is having significant repercussions for markets – and your money. Barry Ritholtz Read Quote
Little white lies are told by humans all the time. Indeed, lying is often how we get through each day in a happy little bubble. We spend time and energy rationalizing our own behaviors, beliefs and decision-making processes. Barry Ritholtz Read Quote
Most of the time, economic data is fairly benign. I don’t wish to imply it is meaningless, but it is not a driver of stock markets. Indeed, the correlation between economic noise and how equity markets perform has been wildly overemphasized. Barry Ritholtz Read Quote
Yearly data put the rest of the noise into perspective. Most of the weekly or monthly random up-and-down movements get smoothed out. Ultimately, this is where long-term investors should be focused. Barry Ritholtz Read Quote
Whenever you hear a discussion about the short-term swings in any given stock’s price, your immediate thought should be whether it matters to why you are investing. Barry Ritholtz Read Quote
With Twitter, you can build your own virtual trading floor and research department, populated by the smartest people on earth. Almost any subject or sector has you can think of, you can find a few people with an expertise in that area. Barry Ritholtz Read Quote
Twitter has become a group conversation of that type that used to take place on trading floors. Barry Ritholtz Read Quote
Investors tend to discover ‘hot’ mutual fund managers just after a successful run and just before the inescapable force of mean reversion is about to kick in. Barry Ritholtz Read Quote
