Market Structure Insights
May 8, 2024
Should a stock like COKE rise 20% in a day? Executives love it, sure. But it’s aberrant behavior at loggerheads with what the dominant money buys today. Here’s what I mean. COKE is a member of MDY, the Blackrock (iShares) S&P midcap 400 ETF, with...
January 24, 2024
If I said the name “Sherlock Holmes” to you, what’s your snap response? Probably, “Elementary, my dear Watson.” I have long favored a line by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, written for his fictitious detective Sherlock Holmes. Eliminate the impossible and what remains, no matter how improbable,...
January 17, 2024
What do bitcoin Exchange Traded Funds mean for public companies? More competition for those dollars you chase with your story. A number of you emailed or texted similar thoughts after the SEC faceplanted into approving the instruments last week (a supposed “hacked” announcement on...
December 6, 2023
Demand Signal would be a great name for a rock band. I heard it from Microsoft’s president Brad Smith, who is an attorney, not an engineer. He said Microsoft’s investments in startups often benefit from Microsoft’s “demand signal.” If we’re doing it, you should be too. Microsoft...
October 27, 2023
There are 1,500 companies reporting results this week, a flood of earnings releases all seeking to differentiate a story, a company. At the same time, the Market Structure EDGE quantitative test portfolio limited to just five stocks could find only four, signaling a shift...