Market Structure Insights
November 20, 2024
Nvidia (NVDA) reports results today after the market closes, like thousands of public companies in the last couple weeks trying to generate alpha. The difference between Nvidia and most of the rest – about 99% – is Nvidia right now generates alpha, a superior return...
November 6, 2024
We’re back! Karen and I left for Spain last month, where outside Girona I rode bikes with good friend Brent and our pro-cyclist guide, Arno. Three hundred miles, over 23,000 feet including the famed Category 1 (over 3,000 feet) Rocacorba, six days in the saddle....
October 16, 2024
Options expire and renew starting today and running through Tuesday, the last chance for big hedges and bets on the US presidential election. We could root through Nostradamus’s quatrains for insight on what’ll happen. We could try something more certain, such as wildly guessing. Or...
October 2, 2024
On Buffalo Pass, autumn blazes. In fact, there are a lot of things ablaze, with another earnings season looming. Will you report results the same old way, public companies? One thing blazing are Chinese stocks, which posted the best week and day since 2008. I’m...
September 25, 2024
Tundra is spongy. So are stocks. Somebody facile with words is Peter Heller. Karen and I met him at a book-signing in Steamboat Springs. Things to do abound everywhere but I think one is more aware of them in small towns. We love our little...
September 11, 2024
On May 22, fees charged by the SEC on trading rose 248%. It’s not widely understood that the fees from initial public offerings, follow-on and secondary offerings, proxy solicitations and corporate buybacks (under sections 6b, 13e and 14g of the Securities Acts) were directed away...