Market Structure Insights

December 18, 2019

Time matters. We’ve gone 42 trading days with the ten-point Market Structure Sentiment index, our proprietary measure of the propensity of algorithms to lift or lower prices, over 5.0. That’s a growth-at-a-reasonable-price (GARP) market since Oct 17. It’s by no means the longest. More on...

December 11, 2019

I recall reading in high school that the military’s then new jet, the FA-18 Hornet, would fall out of the sky if not for computers. Could be that’s exaggerated but the jet’s designers pushed the wings forward, creating the probability of continual minute turbulence events...

December 4, 2019

“How do you think about ESG?” said my friend Moriah Shilton at a San Francisco NIRI summit some weeks back with hedge fund Citadel. Silence. The four panelists shifted around.  A couple whispered to each other. Finally, somebody offered with a throat-clearing cough, “It doesn’t...

November 26, 2019

As Thanksgiving nears, we’re giving thanks for a rock-star stock market since last December, when it fell 20%. Can it hold? In the simplest sense, whatever has been driving it must continue. Thanksgiving is to me the best holiday because it’s introspective. So let’s reflect...

November 20, 2019

Happy birthday to Karen Quast! My beloved treasure, the delight of my soul, turns an elegant calendar page today. It’s my greatest privilege to share life with her. Not only because she tolerates my market-structure screeds. Speaking of which, I’m discussing market structure today at...

November 13, 2019

Public companies, are you still reporting financial results like it’s 1995? Back then, Tim Koogle and team at Yahoo! made it a mission to be first, showing acuity at closing the books for the quarter faster than the rest. Thousands turned out for the call...

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