Market Structure Insights

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December 11, 2024

Microsoft is in 766 Exchange Traded Funds including a Utilities ETF. It’s in about a third of the nearly 1,800 domestic equity ETFs comprising a US-traded universe of 3,500 ETFs, adding in bond, commodity and international funds. Says the Investment Company Institute. Is that a...

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December 4, 2024

What’s the price of your stock?  It matters because the SEC has adopted final rules to redefine a “round lot.”  Currently a round lot is 100 shares.  All quotes to buy or sell must display in 100-share increments, at a minimum one-penny spread between the...

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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...

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November 13, 2024
Since the re-election of Donald Trump, I’ve seen a half-dozen animated discussions on TV about ending the Federal Reserve, the distant stepchild of Hamilton’s bank....
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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....

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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...

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