• Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) published a primer on VIX debunking some of the myths surrounding this rather popular and intriguing index.

• Bloomberg Businessweek article on how small investors are embracing hedge-fund-like strategies.

• September 2010 article from The Financial Timeson how high-frequency trading may be slowed down

• Profs Benoit Mandelbrot and Nicholas Taleb, in a 2005 Fortune article, posit "how finance gurus get risk wrong".

• A special report on financial risk from The Economist.

• Prof Burton Malkiel's 2003 working paper on "Efficient Market Hypothesis and its Critics".

• Prof Robert Shiller's August 2009 article in the New York Times explaining the "why" behind boom and bust cycles.

• First of two articles from the WSJ on how timing the market works (and does not work)

• Second article on market timing

 

• A primer on ETFs and their returns from Direxion.

• A detailed article from Journal of Indexes explaining returns of leveraged and inverse ETFs.

• An easy-to-understand write-up from ETF Database (www.etfdb.com) on how compounding works in ETFs.

• Yale International Center for Finance's 2006 working paper on "How Do Conflicting Theories About Financial Markets Coexist".

• Wall Street Journal article on Didier Sornette, a Swiss professor who "chases financial bubbles".

• Prof Benoit Mandelbrot's 1999 Scientific American article on how fractals can explain "what's wrong with Wall Street".

• A March 2010 op-ed by David Brooks in the New York Times summarizing how and why history seems to be returning to the study of economics.

• Russ Roberts of Stanford University wonders in the Wall Street Journal if "the dismal science" is science at all.

• Prof Paul Krugman's confessional in the New York Times on how the economists got it so wrong.