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  • Are You With the Dumb Money or the Smart Money?

    From bloomberg.com

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    Market observers often divide investors into “smart money” and “dumb money.” Our research shows there may be a way to figure out which group you are in. The first place to look is prices, which reflect the interaction of smart money and dumb money and may contain valuable information about the proportion of either in the market. In other words, the price knows which category we belong to. The trick is to extract that information. Consider a simple example of a simple market: betting on a horse race. Say there are two horses, A and B. And there are two types of bettors, smart money and dumb money. We ... (full story)

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    • Jun 14, 2012 1:32am
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    • In poker.... "If you don't know who the patsy is, then YOU'RE the patsy".

      OK. But in trading and in this A vs B horse betting.... we have a 50/50 chance of being smart or dumb. That seems to be missing the real point. I'm not buying it....

      The Smart money drives the market.

      The dumb money are the retailers who do not have the inside information.

      Maybe I just don't understand a word this writer just said. But, at least I KNOW I'm dumb money.*( Did I say that wrong... "At least I know I'm not the Smart Money")
    • Jun 14, 2012 1:57am
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    • Don't worry, this article is pretty dumb. It's a credit to you that you don't understand his ramblings.
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  • Posted: Jun 13, 2012 11:46pm

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    Category: Entertainment News

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