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Some are great, some are not but worth passing on. – WD0AJG<\/p>\n

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In 2010 I Learned That\u2026<\/a><\/h2>\n
from\u00a0The Reformed Broker<\/a> by\u00a0Joshua M Brown<\/div>\n
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2010 was all about leaks (oil, Wiki, inside information).\u00a0 It was about extreme weather, the ugliest midterms ever and a suspension of disbelief in financial markets.\u00a0 But mostly, it was about leggings and really high boots.\u00a0 And rubber bracelets.
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So what did we learn in 2010?\u00a0 Since I’m sure you’re tired of hearing from me, I got a little help from my friends on this one.\u00a0 Enjoy!
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In 2010 I learned that…<\/h2>\n

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Justin Paterno (StockTwits)<\/strong>:\u00a0my Friday night routine of slapping on yoga pants and watching movies on my computer was stimulating the economy all along.<\/p>\n

Jared Woodard (Condor Options): <\/strong>you may not care about the macroeconomy, but the macroeconomy cares about you.<\/p>\n

Paul Kedrosky (Bloomberg): <\/strong>some people<\/strong> will pay a stupidly high price – both in portfolio and in reputation – so that they can one<\/strong> day say, “I told you so”.<\/p>\n

Michelle Leder (footnoted): <\/strong>selling your company and having a baby (in close proximity to one<\/strong> another) is something that only a truly crazy person would attempt to do.<\/p>\n

Stacy-Marie Ishmael (FT Tilt): <\/strong>Truthiness applies to finance just as much as it does to politics.<\/p>\n

Barry Ritholtz (The Big Picture)<\/strong>:\u00a0despite all of the talk about Democratization of investing, Wall<\/strong> Street primarily serves only the very wealthiest Americans. And that is a shame.<\/p>\n

The Fly (Outer Space)<\/strong>:\u00a0it pays to go bankrupt.<\/p>\n

Mike Konczal (Rorty Bomb):<\/strong> my friend JW Mason is correct: in order to understand value judgments (great news, disaster, opportunity, worry) made by economists and financial journalists, you need to add “for bondholders” for it to make<\/strong> sense<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The Weakonomist (Weakonomics): <\/strong>markets are only as efficient as the engineers that programmed them<\/p>\n

Cardiff Garcia (FT Alphaville)<\/strong>:\u00a0your blunders are easier to forgive if you’re not an asshole, your triumphs easier to ignore if you are.<\/p>\n

Noah Rosenblatt (UrbanDigs): <\/strong>nothing is really secret anymore.<\/p>\n

Leigh Drogen (SurfView Capital): <\/strong>“social leverage” is definitely not just a Howard Lindzon catch phrase.<\/p>\n

Eli Radke (Trader Habits): <\/strong>I should never bet against the resilience of those in finance, sequels are never better than the original and Tony Robbins is an idiot.<\/p>\n

Joe Donahue (Upside Trader)<\/strong>:\u00a0Larry Summers was really a mannequin.<\/p>\n

Kid Dynamite (Kid Dynamite’s World):<\/strong> It’s a momentum world and we’re all just living in it.<\/p>\n

Teri Buhl (Investigative Reporter): <\/strong>you can get fired from your job, even arrested, and your readers will follow you anywhere if you keep giving them the news others are afraid to report.<\/p>\n

Steve Sears (Barron’s):<\/strong> no one<\/strong> knows what’s going on.<\/p>\n

Brian Shannon (Alpha Trends):<\/strong> Wall<\/strong> Street continues to be full of shit, only price pays!<\/p>\n

Jonathan Wald (CNN):<\/strong> the best television is theatre, except if the theatre is Spider-Man.<\/p>\n

Chicago Sean (Minimalist Trader): <\/strong>when it comes to blogging, it’s not the length of your post that matters – it’s the girth.<\/p>\n

James Altucher (The Altucher Confidential): <\/strong> <\/em>Yahoo message board posters are among the most intelligent, well-read people<\/strong> in the known universe and I’m proud to call many of them friends, colleagues, and yes, scholars. Also, male menopause might not be such a bad thing<\/strong> with the right combination of hormones and medication.<\/p>\n

Eric Jackson (Ironfire Capital)<\/strong>:\u00a0a Chinese city of 10 million is considered small, a Chinese airport built in 2002 is considered old, and a Chinese industry that is tripling in size in 3 years is considered “moderately attractive.”<\/p>\n

Derek Hernquist (DerekHernquist.com): <\/strong>there is value in constantly pruning my information sources to make<\/strong> room for new ones.<\/p>\n

Jesse (Cafe Americain)<\/strong>:\u00a0you are going to love the punchline to this recovery story which should be arriving sometime in the first half of next year.\u00a0 Fooled again, what a surprise. One can almost never overestimate the self-destructive gullibility of people<\/strong> when a fraud appeals to their vanity, prejudice, or greed.<\/p>\n

Dasan (Davian Letter):<\/strong> extreme pessimism that worked once in 71 years doesn’t work so well in the other 70 years. And don’t fight the Fed.<\/p>\n

Keith McCullough (Hedgeye): <\/strong>I re-learned that markets don\u2019t lie; politicians do.<\/p>\n

Charles Kirk (The Kirk Report):<\/strong> just because you don’t like or fear what the government or the Fed is doing does not mean that the market is void of opportunity.<\/p>\n

Timothy Connolly (Sconset Capital): <\/strong>Meredith Whitney was right once. ONCE.<\/p>\n

Joe Fahmy (Zenith Asset Management): <\/strong>common sense<\/strong> isn’t so common, women love overpriced cupcakes and the stock<\/strong> market remains the same because human emotion never changes!<\/p>\n

Carl Richards (Behavior Gap): <\/strong>dancing until the Fed’s music stops is dangerous, but complaining about how loud the music is feels a bit like getting pecked to death by ducks.<\/p>\n

Marek Fuchs (TheStreet.com): <\/strong>the devil, taking the form of municipal bonds, is dancing our way. \u00a0At the same time, there is a God: the Knicks are back.<\/p>\n

<\/strong>Howard Lindzon (Bassist, Third Eye Blind)<\/strong>: the Fed is running the best Ponzi Scheme ever.\u00a0 Still.<\/p>\n

Francine McKenna (Re: The Auditors)<\/strong>:\u00a0perfecting a punch line is easy when you’ve got a big target.<\/p>\n

Vince Veneziani (Markets Media): <\/strong>you\u00a0can <\/em>start a blog that no one<\/strong> will read.<\/p>\n

Trader Mark\u00a0(Fund My Mutual Fund)<\/strong>:\u00a0there are numerous valid and concrete reasons the average logical humanoid never tries to launch a mutual fund. \u00a0Thankfully, I am well below average.<\/p>\n

The Epicurean Dealmaker (eponymous): <\/strong>age, wealth, and power are no defense against making a fool of yourself in public. Repeatedly.\u00a0 I should know.<\/p>\n

Michael Bigger (Bigger Capital):<\/strong> I love the 2008 Bear Market.<\/p>\n

Joe Weisenthal (The Business Insider)<\/strong>:\u00a0America really is exceptional, hard work is a substitute for knowledge, and most economic analysis is actually moralizing in disguise. Also: Gold!<\/p>\n

BC (Barbarian Capital):<\/strong> zeros do not matter until further notice.<\/p>\n

Nicole Lapin (CNBC):<\/strong> money never sleeps and neither do I.<\/p>\n

Mark Marasciullo (New Canaan Partners): <\/strong>I been spending most my life livin’ in a banksta paradise.<\/p>\n

Jason & Alyx (LOLFed)<\/strong>:\u00a0Skynet is here, and it is in our trading<\/strong> system. Hell, it\u00a0is<\/em> our trading<\/strong> system.<\/p>\n

Stephen Shaefer (Forbes):<\/strong> $550 million is enough to get the SEC off Goldman\u2019s back for defrauding investors, but $155 million can\u2019t get Cliff Lee in Yankee pinstripes.<\/p>\n

Adam Warner (Daily Options Report):<\/strong> life had no meaning before the IPad.<\/p>\n

Tom Brakke (Research Puzzle)<\/strong>:\u00a0my memory is longer than the market’s, so some selective forgetting can be beneficial. It’s just that I don’t know which things to remember and which to forget.<\/p>\n

Bill Luby (Vix and More): <\/strong>substantial profits can be made from surfing the bleeding edge of Wall<\/strong> Street’s product development engine.<\/p>\n

ChessNWine (iBankCoin):<\/strong> the fear of only being as good as your last blog post is a better stimulant than Four Loko and espresso.<\/p>\n

Prieur du Plessis (Investment Postcards)<\/strong>:\u00a0an open mind, common sense<\/strong> and a solid dose of one’s own research, as opposed to conventional wisdom, are the key ingredients for nailing the markets.<\/p>\n

Lizzie O’Leary (Bloomberg TV): <\/strong>if your name rhymes with Bony Wayward, best not to go back to Louisiana. Ever.<\/p>\n

Jeff Carter (Points and Figures): <\/strong>unemployment programs are creating jobs faster than anything else.<\/p>\n

Jay (Market Folly)<\/strong>:\u00a0THE BERNANK owns us all.<\/p>\n

Paul Vigna (Dow Jones MarketTalk):<\/strong> you can’t trust anything the government says. Wait, I knew that already. Thanks for nothing, Julian Assange.<\/p>\n

Bill Singer (BrokeAndBroker): <\/strong>the only thing<\/strong> on the level on Wall<\/strong> Street is the water in the toilet bowl.<\/p>\n

Ivaylo Ivanhoff (StockTwits 50):<\/strong> there are two types of forecasts – lucky or wrong.<\/p>\n

David Merkel (Aleph Blog): <\/strong>Being a financial regulator is one<\/strong> job that doesn\u2019t follow the\u00a0Peter Principle<\/a>: regulators don\u2019t get fired for exceeding their ultimate level of incompetence; instead, that get still more responsibilities at which to do miserably.<\/p>\n

David Blair (Crosshairs Trader):<\/strong> stock<\/strong> trading<\/strong> can be likened to a psychiatrist visit: you spend good money only to find out how wrong you are in your interpretation of past events.<\/p>\n

Tadas Viskanta (Abnormal Returns)<\/strong>:\u00a0no secret is safe (Wikileaks), nor is trading<\/strong> on secrets (Expert networks). <\/em><\/p>\n

Greg White (The Business Insider): <\/strong>even Bill “Charles Ponzi” Gross cares about page views.<\/p>\n

Phil Pearlman (StockTwits)<\/strong>:\u00a0gold and global equity markets can run higher together for an extended period, despite historical trends, as long as the predominant world currencies are all losing real value.<\/p>\n

Michael Dawson (Trend Rida):<\/strong> the cell phone is the most personal device ever, making it really hard for people<\/strong> to separate the device-maker from its stock<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Jeff Miller (A Dash of Insight): <\/strong>there was a persistent and simplistic \u201crisk on, risk off\u201d theme and I have an order in at Netflix to see if Mr. Miyagi has any other helpful tips.<\/p>\n

Adrienne Gonzalez (Jr Deputy Accountant)<\/strong>:\u00a0the sky is not falling, it’s just perpetually correcting.<\/p>\n

Kevin Depew (Minyanville):<\/strong> everything around us is deeply rooted in a\u00a0Calculus of Fools. While the word “calculus” may also mean a kidney stone, the word fool is straightforward enough. It’s either a lack of judgment or an outright deception, take your pick.<\/p>\n

Downtown Josh Brown (The Reformed Broker)<\/strong>:\u00a0Bieber Fever trumps the Hindenberg Omen every time.<\/p>\n

Michael Panzner (Financial Armageddon)<\/strong>:\u00a0the key to success in today’s market\u00a0is the\u00a0George Costanza rule:\u00a0do the opposite of what makes sense<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Stock Rabbi (StockRabbi):<\/strong> relative strength measures are less important when entire indexes are trending, also bacon cheddar cream cheese is an abomination.<\/p>\n

Robert Sinn (Stock Sage): <\/strong>the Euro is as much a piece of paper as the Dollar is.<\/p>\n

CC (Charts and Coffee)<\/strong>:\u00a0blogging that Apple is set for a fall will get you nasty comments and hate mail (sometimes even from friends).<\/p>\n

The Anal_yst (Stone Street Advisors)<\/strong>:\u00a0we\u00a0can <\/em>have a retail recovery with 10% unemployment so long as rich people<\/strong> keep spending money on things they don’t need and poor people<\/strong> keep shopping instead of paying their mortgages.<\/p>\n

J.C. Parets (Charts for Days): <\/strong>If you’re not looking at charts, you suck at this.<\/p>\n

Justin Walters (Bespoke Investment Group):<\/strong> the market, with it’s uncanny ability to prove people<\/strong> wrong, could retake its pre-Lehman levels much faster than most people<\/strong> thought.<\/p>\n

Scott Bell (GDP Wealth)<\/strong>:\u00a0synchronous asset class inflation and trading<\/strong> on insider information may look fun at first, but both will usually end up with someone getting in big trouble.<\/p>\n

Greg Battle (Leftover Takeout):<\/strong> (from an actual Nouriel Roubini speech) “gold has no intrinsic value. If you are really worried about inflation rising, I would buy SPAM\u2122. You can eat SPAM\u2122, you cannot eat gold. Seriously, they started producing SPAM\u2122 during the Great Depression and it can last for a thousand years given the can and chemicals, so it\u2019s a good store of value, better than gold. You eat it.”<\/p>\n

Wade Slome (Sidoxia Capital)<\/strong>:\u00a0the double-dipper species can scream and pound their chests loudly one<\/strong> second, then drift quickly and quietly into hibernation.<\/p>\n

Eddie Elfenbein (Crossing Wall Street): <\/strong>Bulls make<\/strong> money, Bears make<\/strong> money … but Greece is royally fucked.<\/p>\n

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Feel free to vote for your faves below.\u00a0 Thanks everyone and Happy New<\/strong> Year!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some are great, some are not but worth passing on. – WD0AJG<\/p>\n

In 2010 I Learned That\u2026 from The Reformed Broker by Joshua M Brown <\/p>\n

2010 was all about leaks (oil, Wiki, inside information). It was about extreme weather, the ugliest midterms ever and a suspension of disbelief in financial markets. But mostly, it was about leggings and really high boots. And rubber bracelets. <\/p>\n

So what did we learn in 2010? Since I’m sure you’re tired of hearing from me, I got a little help from my friends on this one. Enjoy! <\/p>\n

In 2010 I learned that… <\/p>\n

Justin Paterno (StockTwits): my Friday night routine of slapping on yoga pants and watching movies on my computer was stimulating the economy all along.<\/p>\n

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