Your boy Cubes (as the guys on PTI would say) just wrote a little dissertation about short selling on his blog. The post is mainly about naked shorting but also has comments about just plain old, legal, shorting as well. I basically agree with everything Cuban has to say. Here are some [...]

In case you haven’t seen it yet, Mark Cuban is looking to start up a hedge fund based on the gambling/sports betting industry. He compares and contrasts the financial markets and gambling. He rightly concludes that “gambling is gambling”. I read an interesting explanation of the difference between gambling and speculation a [...]

Mark Cuban (’Cubes’ as the guys on PTI call him) has just written another article about the stock market on his weblog. This one is called ‘Why do people fall in love with stocks ?‘. As usual, Mark pulls no punches and tells it like it is. Some of my favorite parts:

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The Big Picture highlights what Mark Cuban has to say about how stocks are valued. (Cuban’s entire statement is here ) Mark is absolutely right that supply and demand, and the mood of the crowd (psychology) matter much more than all that fundamental mumbo jumbo. Especially in the short term.

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