Market Structure Insights
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...
November 15, 2023
One time in your life, attend a Texas A&M Aggies football game. There’s a lesson. The lesson isn’t that it’s pretty great to get fired as a Division One football coach and earn generational wealth. Now, had I known, I might have focused more on...
November 8, 2023
It’s November and I’m in jeans and flip-flops as I was in Denver in July. It’s 75 degrees. But in Aspen last week for a break around my birthday, it was decidedly wintry. So winter is coming. But winter ended suddenly in the stock market...
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...
October 18, 2023
Remember the movie Wag the Dog? Barry Levinson directs, David Mamet (a genius) writes, Robert DeNiro and Dustin Hoffman act. It’s about creating a distraction. It’s human nature. Probably a public company that might miss expectations pumps out a lot of product press releases beforehand. ...
October 11, 2023
Would one expect stocks to rise and oil to fall amidst a declared war in the Mideast? Our hearts, thoughts and prayers go out to Israel and our friends, colleagues and clients there (Ps 20:1, Ps 131:3). Mathematically? The market was primed to rise, driven...