In electronic derivative markets, erroneous order entries are common. Confusing price with quantity, accidentally leaning on the immediate sell buttons or setting automated trading functions in motion while experimenting with different parameters, messing up calls and puts – painful. These fat finger trades can definitely ruin your day, your career or even worse. No softwareRead more
Correcting performance for currency effects is a good thing when comparing stock indices around the globe (see here for currency adjusted performance). However, regular investors in domestic stocks don’t care about the price of the US dollar, they’re interested in the performance. For Dutch, Irish, Italian and Belgian buy-and-hold investors there’s bad news. Their nationalRead more
Yesterday I mentioned the fact Amsterdam’s AEX index is having such a wonderful start of 2009, outperforming the rest of the world. Nothing bad about making a good run in three days, but it turns out the Dutch market index is a true underperformer over the past years. According to the an Australian newspaper the AEX rankedRead more
Comparing stock market indices. It’s not like horse racing or comparing nations, and apart from the football pitch I wouldn’t call myself a nationalist. Happy to see though the Dutch stock market, the AEX, outperforming the rest of the civilized world. Even doing better than the US and emerging markets like France and Italy. CuriousRead more
