Market Structure Insights
February 5, 2025
“Really? That’s all the time you spent?” I said,”Yessir. It doesn’t take long to pull weeds.” I think I was twelve. The mailman had suggested to Walker Fry, the richest guy in Huntington, Oregon, population 530, where I grew up that the Quast kid would...
November 20, 2024
Nvidia (NVDA) reports results today after the market closes, like thousands of public companies in the last couple weeks trying to generate alpha. The difference between Nvidia and most of the rest – about 99% – is Nvidia right now generates alpha, a superior return...
November 13, 2024
October 16, 2024
Options expire and renew starting today and running through Tuesday, the last chance for big hedges and bets on the US presidential election. We could root through Nostradamus’s quatrains for insight on what’ll happen. We could try something more certain, such as wildly guessing. Or...
October 9, 2024
Forbes Magazine wrote in Feb 2009 that Warren Buffett is said to have observed, “You pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus.” On the other hand – you know about the one-handed economist – Baron Rothschild is credited with...
September 11, 2024
On May 22, fees charged by the SEC on trading rose 248%. It’s not widely understood that the fees from initial public offerings, follow-on and secondary offerings, proxy solicitations and corporate buybacks (under sections 6b, 13e and 14g of the Securities Acts) were directed away...