Archive for October, 2011

• Metrics for a Good Business: Current Earnings or Platform for Future Earnings?
  Posted by Michael Bigger on October 28th, 2011 at 11:39 am, Comments: 0

  Legendary investor Bill Ruane said this about good businesses: The single most important indicator of a good business is its return on capital. In almost every [...]

• How to Use Our Spread Analyzer
  Posted by Michael Bigger on October 21st, 2011 at 1:16 pm, Comments: 0

  The Spread Analyzer can be found right here. Produced by Jennifer Galperin. Follow me on Twitter and StockTwits.

• Taming a Wild Croc
  Posted by Michael Bigger on October 19th, 2011 at 10:29 am, Comments: 0

  I got kicked very hard in my investment portfolio after $CROX pre announced earnings that fell short of expectation. It is hard to escape when [...]

• How to Use Matlab for Trading
  Posted by Michael Bigger on October 14th, 2011 at 2:03 pm, Comments: 0

  This video is an introduction to Matlab for trading purposes.   The resolution isn’t the best, but you can get the source codes from here.   [...]

• Why should I learn a programming language?
  Posted by Michael Bigger on October 11th, 2011 at 1:42 pm, Comments: 0

  Guest post written by Jev Kuznetsov. Kuznetsov runs a quantitative volatility strategy for Bigger Capital. You can find his blog right here.   People are bad [...]

• Apple versus Amazon.com
  Posted by Michael Bigger on October 7th, 2011 at 1:22 pm, Comments: 0

  I just wanted to share with you that one of our traders has done very well trading the $AAPL versus $AMZN spread. These two companies [...]