Sam Vaknin's Articles in Stock Market

  • On Volatility and Risk
    Volatility is considered the most accurate measure of risk and, by extension, of return, its flip side. The higher the volatility, the higher the risk - and the reward.
  • The Friendly Trend - Technical vs. Fundamental Analysis
    Technical analysts have flourished and waned in line with the stock exchange bubble.
  • The Myth of the Earnings Yield
    In American novels, well into the 1950's, one finds protagonists using the future stream of dividends emanating from their share holdings to send their kids to college or as collateral.
  • Wall Street, October 1929
    The atmosphere of the great boom was savagely exciting, but there were times when a person with my European background felt alarmingly lonely. He would have liked to believe, as these people believed, in the eternal upswing of the big bull market or else to meet just one person with whom he might discuss some general doubts without being regarded as an imbecile or a person of deliberately evil intent - some kind of anarchist, perhaps.
  • A Note on Short Selling and Volatility
    Many economists insist that short selling is a mechanism which stabilizes stock markets, reduces volatility, and creates incentives to correctly price securities.
  • Balkan Rational Exuberance - Interview with Alexandar Dimishkovski of BID Consulting
    The Balkans as a region is experiencing a confluence of events of both fundamental and technical nature that augur well, as far as its economies go.
  • The Macedonian Stock Exchange - December 2007
    The multiple failure of the financial system in the United States, brought on by the subprime mortgage crisis and its contagion, resulted in a dollar plunge and the ascendance of the euro.

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