Survival of the Fittest

Survival of the Fittest for Investors: Using Darwin’s Laws of Evolution to Build a Winning Portfolio – Dick Stoken

This was a good book to flip through, lots of diversified portfolio ideas overlaid with trendfollowing metrics.  I tried to find contact info for the author but it looks like the links to Strategic Capital Management are broken.

One interesting concept was the identification of a bubble as a market that hits a 20-year high (or more), and then triples within three years…Would be fun to test and update with some classic bubbles ala GMO studies…

Below is a totally unrelated video from Kottke on what happens when bees have not evolved against a certain type of hornet…

http://youtu.be/L54exo8JTUs