I just did a search on this forum for the phrase “momentum trading” - interestingly there were zero hits. I can only assume the the phrase does not exist in the mind of an Autrian economist. You may then be interested in this blog entry . EDIT: It seems there is a fault in the search mechanism on t…

http://mises.org/daily/5166/Anne-Hathaway-and-Automatic-Trading http://mises.org/daily/4435 http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2011/08/case-for-25000-per-ounce-gold.html Just a quick search for “momentum trading” and “momentum investing” on mises.org and the google. From what I’ve read on mome…

Smiling dave: Oops!.. it seems there is something wrong with the search mechanism on this forum - I’d actually completely forgotten about my previous post! Sorry… old age.

“I would therefore say that it’s not the rise in price that encourages the investment, it’s the apparent promise of certain returns. The price is merely used by entrepeneurs to gauge the possibility of profits.” Another way to put it would be the return is the good being bought, and as the evaluati…

“and as the evaluation of the potential return goes up technically the ‘price’ goes down” Not at all. Just because the item becomes better value, doesn’t mean its price is going down. The price is just the number of dollars you are required to pay.

It seems there is a fault in the search mechanism on this forum… Most forums have that problem. The workaround is to use a real search engine with the prefix “site:mises.org” [no quotes].

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