Where in the World is MarketSci?
It’s been eerily quiet around the MarketSci blog the last month or so.
I appreciate all of the emails asking if we’ve given up on this blogging thingamajig or if we got hit by a milk truck. Luckily, it’s nothing that sinister.
I’ve been going to extremes lately.
On one hand I’ve been very focused on some serious for-profit issues that have been on my to-do list for a while. And on the other I’ve been getting a bit of very much not serious R&R in – mostly training the new Lab-mix puppy to be a running/hiking machine (and not eat my shoes).
Unfortunately, that hasn’t left much time for everything in the middle (like this blog), but I’m starting to feel the creative juices flowing again, so expect more geekery in the near future.
P.S. there are now two of us in the investment blogging world: checkout Michael Stokes, President of the Financial Coaching Group [not me]. Damn I hope this guy makes it big so I can ride the coattails of all his Google searches =)
Happy Trading,
ms
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Glad you’re okay. I thought maybe you were working coding a robot to take over blogging for you while you sip maitais (sp?) on a beach somewhere.
Re: not eat my shoes
Good luck Michael. My brother has 2 Labs, I have a Lab/mix: It takes two to three years until you no longer have to protect objects that are Lab-shreddable. My dog’s vet has two Labs that her husband left in the SUV while he did something, and the 1yr-olds destroyed the back seat.
Yep, had big dog’s before…I’ve been witness to the destruction.
So far we’ve been lucky – she hasn’t destroyed anything important. But I also take her out daily for excercise. What happens when I got back Stateside and she doesn’t have that daily outlet? Somebody might be losing a couch =)
“It’s a good thing” – Michael… what is doggo’s name? Watch out for those dopplegangers and milktrucks – Best, Jeff
“XiaoSan”…means “Little 3″ in Mandarin. Poor girl had Parvo virus when we got her. Vet said she had a 6-7 out 10 chance of dying. After a week of exploding out of both ends she pulled through. Hence the name, “Little 3″. Added a pic to this post of the monster. michael
Beautiful dog! Good luck with her …
Michael, can you shed some more light on the changes in the SOTM calculation?
I guess the new readings won’t be comparable to the old ones, right? (but this only applies to the aggregate, and not the components – correct?)
Should I be looking for the std dev of the readings to increase in the future?
Hello Carlos – everything you wrote above is correct – at this time, it wont affect the components, only the aggregate. And the SD of readings will increase in the future. The weighting between the 3 components is more or less the same, but I just tweaked the math to produce “stronger” aggregate predictions. Hope that helps. michael
Did you remove your latest post?
RE to Nik: scroll down and you’ll find em’. I posted this back up to the top so folks knew why I’m not posting much at the moment. michael
Michael,
Why have you decided to abandon those of us that have followed your blog loyally over the last year? Get some institutional investors and decide that us individual investors aren’t worth your time? (Sorry, I am pretty disappointed at the moment.)
IMHO, this used to be one of the top five blogs on the net. It was interesting, informative, it made us more comfortable about having our money invested in your strategies, and you stated that it helps you become a better trader. Then, you drop some of your core strategies, and a month or two ago, you suddenly decide to drop off the face of the earth. Our only consolation was the State of the Market report, which gave us a reason to come here and check if you had decided to post again.
So what do we discover today? You’ve decided to suspend the SOTM report, too. This is very disturbing.
Serious question: Back when you were fighting with John Lee online, he stated that he was going to retaliate against you sometime in the future, so did he do something to force you off the blogosphere?
I am searching for answers here, because these events are making me reluctant to have funds invested with your proprietary strategies. If possible, *please* consider providing a more detailed explanation of these events on your blog.
Thank you,
Warren
Hello Warren – thanks for the kind words (and the critiques).
Couple of thoughts:
1. My core business has always been licensing our strategies to financial professionals (as opposed to running a blog or offering subscriptions), so no, we didn’t suddenly start running institutional. This blogging thingamajig was the new addition, not the other way around.
2. The decision wasn’t at all related to anyone’s chest pounding (but I do appreciate the chuckle at the suggestion). The only thing I learned from that experience was just what a cess pool the Internet can be.
3. I do plan on getting a post up explaining where we’re going, but I can sum it up as: “this blog takes a lot of time to maintain with little marginal gain over my existing business and I have other things that I prefer to do with my life because I derive no ego-boost from pixels on a page”.
As you can see though I am still around, so welcome your feedback.
michael
I’d just add to your third point that I don’t think I would have invested in your strategies if you hadn’t been keeping this blog. At least for me it added a lot to make it stand out from the other investing options that are out there.
-=David
Michael,
I agree with the other posters that your blog, which evidenced both intellectual honesty and a keen intellect, was what opened the door and led me to become an investor in your strategies. That doesn’t mean I’m leaving because you’re not blogging, but it does make your funds a little less “sticky”. I miss the comfort level I derived from reading your posts and knowing that some of my funds were in very competent hands, indeed.
On the other hand, it’s your life, and you shouldn’t be a slave to the blog, or anything else that demands more time that it yields back in benefits to you.
Let me propose a compromise: how about a reduced level of posting, like once a week? Or better yet, whenever you feel like it, but aiming for a few times a month?
That might make some sense from both a business and personal perspective, but obviously only you can be the judge of that.
In any case, best of luck with whatever is occupying your time these days, and thanks for all the value conveyed in your many past posts. (and I hope we will see some more!)
=Carlos=