The Market Structure Map
February 22, 2012
When you were a kid, did you lie on your back on the lawn and look for shapes in the clouds? Nanex finds Charlie Brown and unicorns in trading data. Or maybe goblins and Jack the Ripper. IR professionals should know about Nanex. In Boston...
February 15, 2012
At Winter Park Sunday scooting off the Panoramic high-speed chair at 12,060 feet and cooking downslope on skis, the trip was anything but algorithmic. No, skimming from summit to the lift slow zone was uniquely and individually exhilarating. But in equity markets, unique exhilaration more...
February 8, 2012
We missed part of the Super Bowl tromping snowshod through a chamber-of-commerce snapshot 3,000 feet above Denver. We’ve tallied 20 inches of grade-A, premium Rockies powder the past five days. Speaking of grade A, have you seen the movie Moneyball? If not, rent it. For...
February 1, 2012
While Florida voted, Morgan Stanley won the Facebook primary. A unit of Thomson Reuters broke word that the big bank will helm a team of other big banks for what in May could be the biggest IPO, raising perhaps $10 billion. We don’t care who...
January 25, 2012
Good to see you folks in Boston last week. But I needed Denver to thaw me out. It was seventy here last Saturday. I washed the car in T-shirt and flip flops. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. So it goes at...
January 17, 2012
Despite Denver’s rude throttling by the New England Patriots, I am still bound for Boston to panel at the Wednesday NIRI chapter meeting called “A Day in the Life of a Trade: How Can IROs Know What’s Really Happening?” Hope to see you there! One...