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Since you've now read my treatises on Investor Psychology and the Flaws of the Efficient Market Hypothesis, we're finally ready to discuss what we originally set out to discuss - how to improve on buy and hold investing, Rob Bennett's controversial ideas on "valuation informed indexing", the concept of the safe withdrawal rate, and the state of buy and hold investing.

Are you an active or a passive investor? As with all things in finance (such as the type of investor you are), there are shades of gray, but you can basically break down investing strategies into one of those two categories.

Although many authors try to boil down investment advice to the generic and claim it's "one size fits all", here […]

Another week's worth of links!

The Kelly Criterion is the brilliant summation of a betting strategy first discovered by Information Theorist John Kelly. Kelly came up with a betting system, his criterion, which optimizes bankroll growth based upon known odds and a definite payout. Roughly, if you can find an exploitable, repeatable edge... Kelly's system tells the maximum you should bet based upon that criteria.

Every options expiration day (of which Friday was one...) brings another one of these sweet predicting the S&P 500 articles, where I use my ultra-top-secret volatility calculator to tell you where the market is predicting the S&P 500 will move in the near future!

Got your taxes done? How did that go?

Let's not dwell on all the wasted hours filling out pages and pages of tax forms and poring over instructions... or clicking check-boxes and entering information on software. Let's celebrate the return of the weekend, and by extension, The Weekender!

Presented on this page is a calculator which allows you to enter some details about an upcoming Mega Millions drawing and receive the tool's best guess of the expected value per ticket purchased. For details, read the article below the calculator.

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Another week, another weekender coming to you from the Bay Area. Just hours after I left a comment at blogging pal Nelson's site Financial Uproar about how it rarely hails in the Bay Area, it... hailed in the Bay Area. Must have been a Friday the 13th Thing. On that note, read his article about getting a metal roof.