Market Structure Insights

October 13, 2021

Winter is coming. But autumn is mighty fine this year in the Rockies, as my weekend photo from Yampa Street in Steamboat Springs shows. Winter follows fall and summer. Other things are less predictable, such as economic outcomes and if your Analyst Day will do...

October 6, 2021

Why do you hold an Analyst Day?  Traders and investors, these are what Joel Elconin on Benzinga Premarket Prep this past Monday called “the dog and pony show.” For the investor-relations profession, the liaison to Wall Street, it’s a big deal, ton of work. We...

September 29, 2021

It’s window-dressing.  That saying suggests effort to make something appear better than it is.  And it’s a hallmark of stocks in today’s Relative Value era where the principal way we determine the worth of things is by comparing them to other things (true of stocks,...

September 22, 2021

Bucket-list seeing Colorado aspens in autumn. It will remind you that the planet is a living canvas and that everything is going to be okay. Now, what about the stock market?  I said last week in the Market Structure Map: “Predictions? I bet we rebound...

September 16, 2021

If stocks rise when VIX options expire, is it good or bad? It’s data. That, we know.  If you’d never considered a relationship between stocks and options, welcome to market structure.  It’s something every public company, investor, trader, should grasp. At least in big brush...

September 8, 2021

Are you Value or Growth?   Depends what we mean, I know. S&P Dow Jones says it distinguishes Value with “ratios of book value, earnings and sales to price.” It matters because Growth is terrorizing Value.  According to data from the investment arm of AllianceBernstein,...

Want to know your Passive characteristics? How to rethink your earnings reporting cycle?