Market Structure Insights
November 1, 2017
Keep it between the lines, advises an old country song from my youth. “Quast,” you say. “If it’s from your youth, drop the modifier ‘old.’ That’s a given.” You’d be right. Yesterday was ghoulish, as my Halloween trick was turning 50. Dead in the middle...
October 25, 2017
It’s been so easy making money on stocks around the planet that the actual easy money has been forgotten. The European Central Bank Thursday is expected to signal intent to curtail long-running mass purchases of corporate debt. Of course the Federal Reserve, the American central...
October 18, 2017
A picture is worth a thousand words. See the picture here, sparing you a thousand words (for a larger view click here). It explains our rising stock market. Look at the line graphs. Three move up and down, reflecting normal uncertainty and change. Just one...
October 11, 2017
You’re welcome. Had Karen and I not departed Sep 20 for Bavaria to ride bikes along the Alps, who knows what the market might have done? There’s high statistical correlation between our debouchment abroad and a further surge for US stocks. Stocks spent all of...
September 20, 2017
You need examples. I was wishing a longtime friend who turns 50 Sep 20 a happy what they call on Game of Thrones “Name Day,” and it called to mind those words. We were college freshmen 31 years ago – how time flies – and...
September 13, 2017
Tim, I’m listening,” said this conference attendee, “and I’m wondering if I made the wrong career choice.” He said, “Am I going to be a compliance officer?” We were in Boston, Karen and I, marking our wedding anniversary where the romance began: at a NIRI...