Market Structure Insights
November 9, 2011
There’s a saying: It’s easier to keep the cat in the bag than to get it back in there once you’ve let it out. Nobody is likely to stuff the Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) cat back in the bag. Because ETFs are miraculous. The biblical...
November 1, 2011
Having never gone to a Neighborhood Pumpkin-Carving, we were wistful when squirrels promptly devoured the face off our finished product (marked “easiest” in the booklet of pumpkin-carving patterns we purchased). Ah well. What some consider a jack-o-lantern others see as a meal. Speaking of scary,...
October 26, 2011
Observe. Orient. Decide. Act. OODA. This is how Pipeline Trading describes its predictive analytics for helping buyside customers identify large-block trading opportunities. For those of you who missed the news that rocked The Street this week, Pipeline, a dark pool, was fined $1 million by...
October 19, 2011
Did you see the Nicole Kidman film ten years ago called The Others? A woman becomes convinced her house is haunted. In case you’ve not seen it, I’ll save the twist, but it’s the twist that matters. Things are not as they seem. Crack WSJ...
October 12, 2011
I read this at an Occupy Wall Street site: “Let me tell you a wonderful old joke from communist times. A guy was sent from East Germany to work in Siberia. He knew his mail would be read by censors. So he told his friends:...
October 4, 2011
In politics, Bill Clinton perfected the “trial balloon.” You float an idea of one shade because you’re planning on getting people to embrace an idea of another larger construct. In fiction writing, authors will create portent by ending a chapter with something like: “She could...