More than a month ago, I finished Nassim Taleb’s culminating work, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder. I’ve now read his entire series, and thoroughly enjoyed most of it. Thus, I wanted to record some of my favorite passages and takeaways herein, because his hyper-simplistic, radical, against-the-grain philosophy has a profound effect on both my personal and my professional lives…
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In Bookshelf on Sun 12 May 2013 at 06:07Null hypothesis: Testing the SPY 2007 analogue, the emerging successor to 2006 comparison
In Capital Markets on Thu 9 May 2013 at 21:10I have to continually test my hypotheses to make sure the facts haven’t changed or the story hasn’t morphed. To wit, my recent [offline] comparitive analysis of Small Caps (IWM) vs Large Caps (IWB) brought to my attention a potential recalibration of my trusted 2006 SPY analogue. Given the full-tilt rally we’ve experienced these past two weeks, 2007 has emerged as a new analogue to guide this market forward. I wanted to record these findings, which I’ll have to vet more over the coming days/weeks.
