Investors who increased allocations to international stocks, emerging markets, real estate, hedge funds, high-yield bonds, and natural resources during the previous decade did so at least partly ...

"Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing 'look over there.'" Randall Munroe, Science & Math Cartoonist Chances are when ...

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Earlier this year, I gave a seminar to a group of investment advisors and asked if they knew what negative correlation meant. Not a single person knew the correct definition. Unfortunately, this ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Correlation coefficients are indicators of the strength of the linear relationship between two different variables, x and y. A linear correlation coefficient that is greater than zero indicates a ...

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If you have been trading foreign currencies for a while, you realize that there are certain pairs that react to the market just like other pairs. Understanding which pairs do not act like the other is ...

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