Why did the New Yorker publish this profile on Nassim Taleb? I mean it goes on for ten pages and I basically learn zilch about the details of his trading strategy. All it tells me is that no matter what he buys call options and if there is a big enough market move they make for a huge payday. Don't waste your time!

Trend Macro Institutional Headlines - a weblog from a buy side analyst firm:

"TrendMacrolytics is an economics research and consulting service providing exclusive market-focused, real-time analysis to the institutional investment community. The TrendMacro approach identifies market risks and opportunities using a top-down analytical model that emphasizes the incentives to wealth creation and capital formation facing economic producers who operate in an environment of ever-changing domestic and global political trends. We rely on forward-looking market indicators recognizing that market prices -- correctly analyzed in their interaction with macroscopic developments -- contain the information required to shape an optimal portfolio selection strategy."

Let's just say looking at some of the charts makes me dizzy but I expect they make plenty of sense to the rest of you.

They also have links to related material, including the WSJ article mentioned by Tom in the previous post (but it's subscribers only) and this interesting piece from Institutional Investor: The Buy Side Wakes Up.