The Market Structure Map

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January 24, 2024

If I said the name “Sherlock Holmes” to you, what’s your snap response? Probably, “Elementary, my dear Watson.” I have long favored a line by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, written for his fictitious detective Sherlock Holmes. Eliminate the impossible and what remains, no matter how...

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January 17, 2024

What do bitcoin Exchange Traded Funds mean for public companies? More competition for those dollars you chase with your story. A number of you emailed or texted similar thoughts after the SEC faceplanted into approving the instruments last week (a supposed “hacked” announcement on X...

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December 13, 2023

Anything you say can and will be used against you in the stock market, public companies. By machines. And I don’t mean just that stocks get hammered like ORCL yesterday, down 12%. Stocks that rise 24% on earnings like PATH don’t benefit in the long...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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