Market Structure Insights
January 26, 2010
January 19, 2010
Hope you enjoyed MLK Weekend! We were on bikes for the first time in Twenty Ten as temperatures tickled the high 50s Saturday and Sunday on Colorado’s Front Range. TRAVEL UPDATE: I’m in Kansas City today joining Joe Ratterman, CEO of BATS, and Jeff Albright,...
January 12, 2010
Thought for the day: “Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.” – Will Rogers Speaking of chaotic action, let’s review trading basics. We tend to think trading is buying and selling stock. To quote John Kerry, would that it were! Most trading today isn’t done...
January 5, 2010
Happy New Year! I grew up in the Snake River Breaks northwest of Boise. In tiny Huntington, where I quarterbacked the eight-man high-school football team, a guy ahead of me several years achieved local fame at middle linebacker for the Boise State Broncos. BSU was...
December 29, 2009
We’re back after a refreshing one-week break! Here in Denver we packed the house with visitors, the kitchen with delicacies, the slopes with our skis, and our bellies with generally excessive consumption. Good thing reality returns with a bite soon! Remember that Redford flick from...
December 15, 2009
Tis the season for expirations, the keyhole onto institutional risk-management. The shuffle started Friday Dec 11, when risk-management trading dominated. You won’t see it in price or volume, or puts or calls, but in the nature of execution.
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