Can You Sue a Robot?
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Can You Sue a Robot?

You wouldn’t kick a real dog, but how about a robot dog? It’s not an actual living creature, so what’s the harm? Boston Dynamics, a market leader in robotics, routinely “Abuses” its animal-like creations in an effort to make them more...

Gender Equality in Tech: China vs. US
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Gender Equality in Tech: China vs. US

Two items to discuss today: #1. Facebook. We rarely take victory laps at DataTrek, mostly because we adhere to the old trader’s aphorism that preaches humility: “Instead of yelling you should be selling.” The second half of that saying, by...

Buy The Very Big Dip, Not the Drip
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Buy The Very Big Dip, Not the Drip

It may be harder to make money in US stocks compared to the last few years of low volatility and high returns, but there are still some benefits to a twitchier market. Even though we’re less than 90 trading days through 2018, US stocks certainly...

Parking In the Dollar Lot
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Parking In the Dollar Lot

The US dollar has strengthened recently, back to levels last seen in mid January 2018. Part of this move feels like a short squeeze, as selling dollars has been a fairly consensus trade this year. The balance, however, does have the ring of...

The Stoic’s Ideal Market
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The Stoic’s Ideal Market

“We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.” That pithy dose of tough love comes from the Roman philosopher Seneca. It neatly summarizes one of the planks of Stoic philosophy, which basically...