Market Structure Insights

SPY Volume Comp
August 31, 2022

Bill Miller once said, “Seventy percent of stock-pickers are closet indexers.”   The image at right is the composition of the daily average volume in SPY, the State Street S&P 500 Exchange Traded Fund (ETF), for the five days ended Aug 24, into index-futures expirations...

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August 24, 2022

I get a kick out of Jeff Yass and not just because he’s a libertarian. And when did “libertarian” became a bad word? We used to love liberty. Anyway, Jeff Yass started Susquehanna International Group in Bala Cynwyd, PA. He’s roughly Number 184 on the...

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August 17, 2022

Never underestimate the big importance of small things. It’s a line from a book called The Midnight Library that we listened to while driving from Steamboat Springs to Austin this week. The character in the book who uses it in turn got it from Henry...

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August 10, 2022

What a week back from Switzerland. We lost historian David McCullough and singer Olivia Newton-John. Meme stocks went berserk anew. And speaking of berserk, after juicing Demand till inflation surpassed 9%, the Senate ratified a giant Supply-side bill that’ll ramp the cost and production of...

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August 3, 2022

We’re back after a month-long absence! And it’s not the same as it was. That’s a line from Harry Styles’ new hit. Wistful tune. He said he wrote it about the way the world won’t be the same, after the Pandemic. Seems to me it’s...

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July 20, 2022

It’s good to get yourself a long way away from things. You might find you’ve been missing the forest for the trees. So we’re in Europe, halfway through our longest junket away from Clyde the Cavalier (great name for a medieval court jester but he’s...

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