October 2010

Frank Boland
October 14, 2010

In this edition of Frank Thoughts, Frank discusses the rise of high-frequency algorithmic computer trading and its inherent disadvantages to long-term investing. 

THE 800 POUND GORILLA

      Everybody assumes “professional” investors are sophisticated and knowledgeable about stocks but are they...

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So long as predictions remain popular, and are so numerous as they are today – and so long as they receive notoriety through repetition in the press and on the radio – contrary opinions will increase in importance as thinking aids. “

– Humphrey Neil