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		<title>Chapter 14 &#8211; Nerds Gone Green &#8211; Nerds on Wall Street, off Wall Street</title>
		<link>http://nerdsonwallstreet.com/nerds-gone-green-on-wall-street-443/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 18:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Leinweber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clean Energy and Nerds off Wall Street
This book closes with another chapter that, like the previous two, I didn’t expect to be writing. Recent headlines (Wall Street layoffs could reach 200,000, Citigroup is cutting 50,000 jobs) imply that many nerds on Wall Street (NOWS), mostly innocent bystanders in the meltdown, may soon find themselves on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 13 &#8211; Structural Ideas for the Economic Rescue &#8211; Fractional Homes and New Banks</title>
		<link>http://nerdsonwallstreet.com/ideas-for-economic-rescue-428/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 17:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Leinweber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Structural Ideas for the Economic Rescue &#8211; Fractional Homes and New Banks
Mom used to say, “If you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” I clearly ignored that advice in the previous chapter, with the “mad as hell” opening and analogies to an exploding meth lab run by the neighbors. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 12 &#8211; Shooting the Moon &#8211; Stupid Financial Technology Tricks</title>
		<link>http://nerdsonwallstreet.com/stupid-financial-technology-tricks-405/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 03:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Leinweber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stupid Financial Technology Tricks and Global Economic Collapse
Like many others from the stock side of greater Wall Street, I felt blindsided by the events of 2008. “Blindsided” is actually a gross understatement; I felt like the guy who comes home and finds the neighbors were running a meth lab that has exploded and flattened the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 11 &#8211; Three Hundred Years of Stock Market Manipulations</title>
		<link>http://nerdsonwallstreet.com/stock-market-manipulations-384/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 00:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Leinweber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[300 Years of Stock Market Manipulations &#8211; From the Coffeehouse to the World Wide Web&#8217;s Stock Manipulations
In previous chapters, we saw that many of the changes in securities markets brought about by information technology in general and the Internet in particular are positive, democratizing access to markets and information. We also saw that technology is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 10 &#8211; Collective Intelligence, Social Media, and Web Market Monitors</title>
		<link>http://nerdsonwallstreet.com/stock-market-recommendations-market-trading-tips-369/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 00:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Leinweber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Web Market Monitors and the Impact of Social Media on Financial Markets
&#8220;The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls.&#8221; — Simon &#38; Garfunkel, The Sound of Silence
Opinions vary widely on the value of collective wisdom, with ample supporting evidence both for and against. The Internet has many positive examples: The collective ratings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 09 &#8211; The Text Frontier &#8211; AI, IA, and the New Research</title>
		<link>http://nerdsonwallstreet.com/investment-alpha-trading-alpha-wall-street-rumors-347/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 22:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Leinweber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hunting Investment Alpha and Trading Alpha from Online News, Social Media, and Rumors
Alpha hunters are always looking for new territory. When a strategy becomes known and used by too many players, the collective market impact of getting in and getting out will squeeze out all the profit juice, and only the lowest-cost transactors (large sell-side [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 08 &#8211; Perils and Promise of Evolutionary Computation on Wall Street</title>
		<link>http://nerdsonwallstreet.com/evolutionary-computation-on-wall-street-325/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 20:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Leinweber</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[quantitative finance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[genetic algorithm]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Using Genetic Algorithms, Optimization Models, and Evolutionary Computation on Wall Street
“Be careful what you ask for — you might get it.”
My enthusiasm for machine learning, described at the end of the previous chapter, led me to kiss many artificial intelligence ( AI ) frogs. This included many flavors of inductive and explanation &#8211; based learning, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 07 &#8211; A Little Artificial Intelligence Goes a Long Way on Wall Street</title>
		<link>http://nerdsonwallstreet.com/artificial-intelligence-and-wall-street-trading-309/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 00:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Leinweber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Little AI Goes a Long Way on Wall Street: Artificial Intelligence and Securities Trading
“If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.”
This is a history and technical overview of one of the earliest artificial intelligence (AI) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 05 &#8211; A Gentle Introduction to Computerized Investing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 23:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Leinweber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Computerized Investing, Index Funds, Quantitative Investing, and Active Management
“Life would be so much easier if we only had the source code.” —	Hacker proverb
The beginning of index investing in the 1970s was the result of a convergence of events, one of those ripe apple moments. Institutional investors began to use firms like A.G. Becker to actually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 04 &#8211; Where Does Alpha Come From?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 18:27:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Leinweber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where Does Stock Alpha and Alpha Return Come From?
&#8220;Life Is Alpha. The Rest Is Details.&#8221; — Popular T-shirt at hedge fund manager events
There was a time not too long ago when, if you posed the question “Where does alpha come from?” to a roomful of academic financial economists, most of them would complain: “It’s a [...]]]></description>
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