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Dept. of Trees

Trees first appear in the fossil record about 400 million years ago. They are one of the great evolutionary success stories.

As a life form, forests have survived ice ages, global warming periods and countless fires, droughts and floods. Forests cover 30% of the earth's surface today. Some individuals live for more than 2,000 years.

Daily Speculations and its contributors find trees of much interest in their never-ending search for new tradable ideas. Some appear below.  

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01/24/05 Mangroves and Markets, by Tom Ryan
01/18/05 Back to the Roots: How a Company is Like a Tree, by Victor Niederhoffer with Spec contributor commentary
10/07/04 Ancient Trees, by Victor Niederhoffer
10/07/04 Roots for a Lifetime, by Russell Sears
10/06/04 Some Galtonesque Tree Talk, by Jack Tierney
10/13/04 A Technical Word on Trees, by Old Speculators' Assn. President Jack Tierney
09/27/04 Wind Gauges, by Thomas Miller
09/24/04 The Axiom of Uniform Stress, by Victor Niederhoffer
04/13/03 Discussion on Trees inspired by Vic's Trip to Kew Gardens, including Tom Ryan's Dendrochronology Posts

The highlight of Vic’s trip to London in April 2003 was a visit to Kew Gardens, where he saw “the most remarkable oak tree of all time. Like a Beethoven symphony, a day with 95% of issues up, a meal at the Four Seasons, an N.C. Wyeth painting, a Cervantes or Hugo novel, an O’Brian celebration."  (At left: daughter Kira.)

Comments:

Clifford Snyder: In reading the trees and markets list, I became perplexed about the meaning of Turgidity. I found this explanation to be quite helpful.

http://www-saps.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/osmoweb/wpmenu.htm

Vic at the former Jay Gould estate (Lyndhurst, N.Y., September 2005)