The Market Structure Map

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January 15, 2025
Public companies with traded shares need to stop selling horses and wagons to a stock market buying cars....
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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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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 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 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...

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August 7, 2024

Copernicus could help us pick stocks.     In a sense, anyway. I’ll explain. Now, I don’t know what’s going to happen next. We did, however, write this July 24: Recognize this: It’s a mathematical impossibility for any meaningful rotation to occur from large caps to...

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