The exponential decay of time proves that all the focus on studying news, prices, psychology, and mathematical order are indirect ways to study time.

80/20 is a globally used term and another name for the Pareto principle. Though initially used to illustrate wealth allocation 80/20 was found to be a verified law (power-law).

A simple triangle can integrate all market theories. Can we spot it? While writing ‘Theory of Moral Sentiments’ in 1776, Adam Smith would never have thought that after 2 centuries people will find it oxymoronic to see morals and sentiment in the same phrase. Now, sentiment creates the popular news, lack of morals are ascribed…

The first person I heard keeping a track of Dow Industrials Average on a day-to-day basis was a business school senior of mine from the class of 1997. Little did I know then that in barely ten years, the world will get glued to Dow daily and intraday movements.

We have an index of phone calls at Orpheus. This is an internal sentiment index that we use. The more the calls we receive in a certain week, the stronger the market sentiment.

Water, a critical renewable resource, has just started a multi-year boom, which should leave even oil behind. Throwing out the baby with the bathwater is an idiom that has its origins on the monthly bathing ritual in Europe before the 16th century.

It may still be vivid in many investors’ minds the game of the century, ‘Caritas’, the Ponzi* scheme of the early 1990s in Romania. It was owned by Ioan Stoica and attracted over 400,000 investors who gambled over 1 billion dollars because it promised to repay 8 times the amount invested. Although Caritas lasted for…

We humans are strange beings. We love to trash what we create, wealth or peace. It’s a harsh reality. Euphemistically we might call it a new age theory, or evolution. But the reality is that psychology is calling 200-year-old economic thought junk.