Steven Engelhardt

Pricing models like the arbitrage pricing theory or the Fama-French factor models simply assume that prices are right, then extrapolate from that what the relevant risk factors must be that determine prices.

Fox, Justin. What we talk about when we talk about the efficient market hypothesis. The Curious Capitalist Blog: 8 October 2009.

Exactly!

When you are processing an HTTP request in ASP.NET you can retrieve the user-provided query string parameters using the HttpRequest.QueryString property.  This property is an instance of the NameValueCollection class.

If the user has provided multiple parameters with the same key in the query string, HttpRequest.QueryString[key] will return all the values concatenated together with commas.  If you would rather process the values individually, use HttpRequest.QueryString.GetValues(key), which will return an array of all the provided values.

For example:

URL: http://example.com?a=1&a=2
HttpRequest.QueryString["a"] = "1,2"
HttpRequest.QueryString.GetValues("a") = { "1", "2" }

I spent many weeks of my childhood, along with a substantial portion of last weekend, playing Might and Magic 2, which I purchased in a bundle from GOG.com.

Fond memories.

Stare at the red dot at the center of this image for a minute or two:

Current Cubs team OBP: 0.328
Current Cubs team ERA: 3.79
This year’s prediction: 87-75 (Methodology)
Previous predictions: 82-80 (7/5), 82-80 (6/5), 78-84 (5/12)

Current Cubs team OBP: 0.322
Current Cubs team ERA: 3.90
This year’s prediction: 82-80 (Methodology)
Previous prediction(s): 82-80 (6/5), 78-84 (5/12)

Current Cubs team OBP: 0.329
Current Cubs team ERA: 4.17
This year’s prediction: 82-80 (Methodology)
Previous prediction(s): 78-84 (5/12)

Current Cubs team OBP: 0.333
Current Cubs team ERA: 4.60
This year’s prediction: 78-84 (Methodology)

Ugh, let’s hope I’m wrong.

Historic P/E Ratio for the S&P 500

Time to buy yet?

Hat tip: Barry Ritholtz