It's all about Europe getting its act together and corporate earnings.

Skip the canvases and go to the trend driving returns: the rise of the global nouveau riche.

Historically, excessive greed sets the stage for losses, and excessive fear sets the stage for outsized gains. And the fear is here.

2011 was not the best year I have had.

Europe and Asia will continue to slow down, and I expect Europe will enter an 18 month recession.

The genetic algorithms we have should find the best optimizations themselves, without having to perform exhaustive studies.

Let’s hope this back and forth doesn’t last much longer.

2011's volatility will be burned into investors’ memories for a long time to come.