As you may know, I like to keep things relatively simple in my analysis of both the economy and the markets.
As for entry levels I use a combination of pivot point analysis, Fibonacci as well as simple tools like the 20-period EMA. As most of you are aware, in an uptrending market, pullbacks to the 20-day EMA often provide a good entry point.
But Big Data can also be an enormous waste of time and money if that mountain of raw data consists of only dross, or the only patterns that emerge from all of your analysis are those you could have discovered with a couple hours of simple observation.
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This simple analysis reveals striking differences between the rich and most of the rest of the population.
An American historian at Oxford University, Mr Johnson offers a brilliant analysis of the war and its causes written in simple, clear prose.
Of course the answer to that was simple: they had all the analysis, they told us who these people were, why they did it, even told us who the SAS were.
In the final analysis, despite our big brains and eons of evolution we remain, at heart, simple creatures of habit.
To do so, astronomers resort to Fourier analysis, a mathematical technique that allows them to break a complex curve into a set of simple ones called sine waves.
Once you understand the importance of how cash flow is generated and reported, you can use these simple indicators to conduct an analysis on your own portfolio.
According to an analysis performed by advanced analytics consulting firm Emerald Logic, factoring in WiseWindow data on top of a simple momentum trading program boosted returns by over 30% on an annualized basis for GM, Ford, and Southwest Airlines.
Its simple interface has to date allowed people to create and share over 72, 000 visualizations ranging from the an analysis of the budget for the city of Moscow to tag clouds of the most common word in lyrics by the Beatles.
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And in terms of predictive analysis, a pie chart of where someone goes most frequently, or who they tweet to, is simple data crunching that a human analyst could do, albeit with more time and effort.
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