“Some economists, when thinking about long memory, are concerned that it undercuts the Efficient Market Hypothesis that prices fully reflect all relevant information; that the random walk is the best metaphor to describe such markets; and that you cannot beat such an unpredictable market. Well, the Efficient Market Hypothesis is no more than that, a hypothesis. Many a grand theory has died under the onslaught of real data.” Benoît B. Mandelbrot
02 August 2013
SP 500 and NDX Futures Daily Charts - Complacency Reigns
Another day, another weak jobs report, another scandal in which Banks are discovered to be fixing a key rate to cheat the people, this time through interest rate swaps.